This study focused on linguistic analyses used in the PIF Project (Project in Error Analysis, Interlanguage Studies and Contrastive Linguistics), an ongoing study of learner language and a project in foreign language pedagogy. For the project, 120 Danish learners of English were divided into 12 groups representing different Danish educational…

THIS CHAPTER IN A LARGER WORK ON INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY DEALS LARGELY WITH THE NEED TO SPECIFY TRAINING OBJECTIVES THROUGH JOB ANALYSIS, USES OF TESTING IN TRAINEE SELECTION, TRAINING VARIABLES AND LEARNING PROCESSES, TRAINING TECHNOLOGY (MAINLY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION), THE EVALUATION OF PROFICIENCY, THE VALUE OF…

Diagnostic instruments of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) Program measure pupil achievement in the IPI learning continuum. The IPI system employs the instructional unit to define progress in mathematics, reading and science. At the start of a school year, placement tests are administered to start the pupil in appropriate learning…

U.S. Army service schools have been directed (USONARC Directive 350-34, Education and Training, New Instructional Techniques) to initiate development of automated courses of instruction in their curriculum. Programers and training supervisors are provided with procedural guidelines for the derivation of learning objectives and for the use of…

This review summarizes the main findings of an Australian study designed to (1) identify specific tasks and competencies associated with literacy and numeracy, (2) to prepare appropriate literacy and numeracy performance tests, (3) to estimate the percent failing to attain basic literacy and numeracy skills, and (4) to specify relationships…

The authors in this series of essays have designed a modern approach to the difficulties confronting educational administrators who need to know the how and why of today's legal requirements for college students as well as the need for preventing legal pollution of administrative decisionmaking. Included are specific cases and interpretive…

The guide is more than a how-to-do-it manual of useful teaching techniques; it also offers ideas for handling problems with colleagues, campus politics, the administration, and students. The rewards and penalties of a college teaching career are reviewed. The variety of the professor's interactions with students is described and the general…

The collection of selected papers of Joseph T. Impellitteri reprints in full, or excerpts from, 46 unpublished position and conference papers, research and program proposals, and project reports, and from 20 published articles, chapters from edited collections, bulletins and special studies which Impellitteri authored or co-authored. The papers…

The Peace Corps has probably had the most comprehensive system ever developed for large-scale selection of personnel; by 1973, nearly 400,000 persons had applied for appearance. During much of its history, a Division of Research has been operative; the monograph surveys most of the publications of that division as well as a number of other studies…

In the third edition of the basic text, which deals with the methodology of preparing courses of study in industrial arts and vocational education, the title and content have been modified to include technical education. The authors stress the importance of the teacher's ability to organize instructional material where manipulative processes are…

A nationwide systematic approach to assess the developments and achievements of highway safety activities was conducted to measure program outputs from 1969 through 1974 using key indicators of performance such as ratios and percentages. A sample of 10 states was selected with overall sample of 105 local jurisdictions which would provide estimated…

The study was an experimental comparison of the structured versus unstructed training of semiskilled production workers. The experiment was implemented using the following procedures, which are presented in detail: a representative semiskilled production job was selected, the two training programs were characterized and developed, trainees…

Measures of student satisfaction and other variables which are related to student reaction to their school are built into the design of this study, which hypothesizes that satisfaction will represent the students' global response to the learning environment, and that in turn, this global response will be related to certain performance…

The principal objectives of this conference were to exchange information, discuss theoretical and empirical developments, and to coordinate research efforts. The papers and their authors are: "The Graded Response Model of Latent Trait Theory and Tailored Testing" by Fumiko Samejima; (Incomplete Orders and Computerized Testing" by…

Two versions of a computer-assisted instruction practice lesson on series resonant circuit analysis were compared. One was a program control version which required considerable time for students to reach criterion level. The other program was a revised student control version of the same lesson. In the program control version, quantity of practice…