This report describes the overall work of the project and the first 10 months of its current demonstration phase, Phase IV. It presents an overview of the project's history and objectives, a description of the methodologies involved, the steps taken in applying the methodologies in task analysis and curriculum design, the approach to…

The second volume of an eight-part series on a task-based management system for special education programs offers detailed procedures for use of the task base composite (TBC), a listing of approximately 700 task descriptions classified under 20 functions and divided according to whether the task is necessary to support a program or directly…

Two studies attempted to determine whether a programed instruction booklet on a task in algebra would be more effective if the units in the program were presented in a sequence suggested by a hierarchical analysis of the task than if units were presented in a reverse or a random sequence. In the first study, a program was made up, based on the…

Described is an analysis of the content, tasks, and strategies needed by students to enable them to identify insects to order by sight and to family by use of a standard dichotomous taxonomic key. Tasks and strategies are broken down and arranged progressively in the approximate order in which students should progress. Included are listings of…

There is considerable disagreement concerning the age of onset and universality of attainment of Piaget's stage of formal operations. This study examines developmental differences in response to brief prompts in the use of a formal operational approach to the solution of two tasks. The subjects were 10 males and 10 females from each of Grades 5,…

Competencies necessary for entry and advancement in horse production were determined by a survey of 46 people in the horse production industry from the nine leading horse production states other than Texas. A preliminary listing of competencies was developed from a review of the literature and a survey of leaders in agricultural education. The 46…

The competencies necessary for entry and advancement in cotton production were determined by surveying people in the cotton production industry from nine of the ten leading cotton producing states. A preliminary listing of competencies was developed from a review of the literature and from a survey of specialized personnel in soil and crop…

REXALL is a flexible program within the CODAP (Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs) system designed primarily for analyzing judges' task-factor ratings, and may be used for identifying divergent raters. Divergent raters are those whose ratings are significantly different from the other raters' ratings. They may be the noncooperative…

This project was designed to collect information on the types of skills common to the appliance repair, refrigeration, and air conditioning service areas. A single task inventory was constructed from available course materials, revised by consultants, and administered to a random sample of 30 incumbent workers in each of the two service areas in…

The author examines the role of territorial rights in the work of the pupil personnel worker. He concludes that the effective pupil personnel worker must be aware of others' boundaries, adjust to his/her own lack of territory and be able to resolve conflicts between workers about territorial rights. (EJT)

Comments on a recent article by DeLuca on electronic "measurement of logical thinking" questioning four aspects of the article. DeLuca responds to the criticism on those four aspects in question. (GA)

A sample of 576 clerical workers completed occupational inventory booklets showing tasks performed and the time spent performing them. In addition, clerical workers, supervisors, and business teachers rated the learning difficulty of each task. The catalog of performance objectives prepared from the data can be used to develop career-relevant…

College students learned implicitly the underlying structure of an artificial language by memorizing a set of representative examples. The form and structure of their knowledge was evaluated and analyzed by: (1) solving anagrams; (2) determining well-formedness of novel letter strings; and (3) providing detailed introspective reports. (Author/MV)

The article presents eight lessons for teaching practical signs to deaf-blind individuals. (CL)

Creativity, intelligence, and problem-solving tasks that varied in the explicitness of problem definition and in the format for an acceptable solution were administered to 100 college students. Two hypotheses that distinguished between concepts of creative and intelligent problem-solving were presented, and syntactical and strategic distinctions…