This how-to-do-it guide for Oklahoma public libraries to use in evaluating their performance defines the individual performance measures, explains the data collection and analysis procedures, shows example calculations, and discusses the analysis and presentation of the performance measures. The performance measures are presented in terms of the…

The present study explored the dynamics of expectancy effects. The process by which labels about children provided to adults (but not to the children themselves) achieve their outcomes was investigated. Forty-eight undergraduate females were provided with information about children whom they were to instruct; each undergraduate was then…

This study measured the effectiveness of a college level compensatory program for black disadvantaged students relative to aspiration, motivation, and academic levels as compared to advantaged students. Results revealed that the disadvantaged group reduced the gap between initial disparities on the criterion measures for the independent variables…

The use of primes (verbal suggestions), contingent attention, and training sessions to assess a 4-year-old child's engagement and skill in six large motor activities was examined using a combination reversal and multiple-baseline design. (Author/CL)

Effects of same- and cross-sex experimenters on attentive behavior and learning of 64 educable retarded children (mean age 10 years) were examined in two conditions: experimenter not present (not in) or experimenter present and providing cues relevant to task mastery (relevant cue). (Author)

This study examines the relationship of clerical workers' ability level, as measured by the School and College Ability Test, and measures of employee satisfactoriness and job satisfaction. Ability level was not related to satisfactoriness, but was inversely related to job satisfaction. (SJL)

Three teachers of 11 primary age hearing impaired children were trained to use expansions (complete adult grammatical imitations of a child's incomplete utterance). (Author)

Investigates the effect of three variables: the difficulty level of the task, the nature of the feedback, and the nature of the relationship between model and observer, on peer observers' attributions of model's performance and their subsequent intention to imitate model. (Author)

Investigated was the development of 102 hearing impaired elementary school children (half of whom had had preschool education); and identified were prescriptive conditions which affect the performance of deaf children. (LS)

The article show how a manager can motivate subordinates to achieve the common purposes of need satisfaction and goal attainment. (Author)

In the various stages of learning to read and write, certain prerequisite skills are essential for further growth to occur. The article describes these and elaborates on the characteristics unique to the disadvantaged adult that must be kept in mind if a successful communications program is to be developed. (Author)

A decrement toward lowered levels of cognitive functioning was noted in a study of aged residents of a dependent care facility when tested on a series of cognitive conservation tasks. (Author/KM)

This resource document is one of a series of nine resource documents, each of which addresses a separate factor in the "Assessment of School Needs for Low-Achieving Students" survey that can help determine a student's academic success and each of which contains information that responds to specific survey items. This document addresses the factor…

This manual was prepared by the Regional Rehabilitation Exchange (RRX) project to assist rehabilitation and independent living organizations and programs in submitting information to gain recognition as an exemplary program model for job placement services. The manual is intended for programs and organizations in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,…