R.S. Lazarus's theory of coping was used to investigate appraisal and reappraisal of threat in repressors and sensitizers. Two indexes of stress, self-report ratings of affect and palmar skin conductance, were measured prior to performance on a reaction time task, after one-third of the task was completed and after two-thirds of the task was…

The process of writing and using performance goals, will bring a number of side benefits in its wake, among them ultimately, a more realistic view of what is needed to meet existing shortages in the health services. (Editor)

Explains how to develop a cost comparison that shows housekeeping costs for each type of area. (Author)

Piagetian tasks varying in complexity were administered to elementary school children in grades K-3. Differences between the attainment of similar concepts occurred when the tasks required different types of inference patterns, had different goals, or involved different percepts. Discusses curriculum implications. (AL)

To deal with questions arising from the increased use of paraprofessionals a project was initiated entitled A Task Analysis System for Educational Personnel Development." (MB)

A conceptual and methodological framework is described which provides a statistical referent for the components of acquisition and application of task knowledge in complex inference tasks and which facilitates their disentanglement. (Authors/RY)

A factorial experiment which combined solution-word frequency, pre-problem-solving tasks, and S's spelling ability. (Author)

The proposed three-step strategy for research on human information processing--concept hierarchy analysis, analysis of example sets to teach relations among concepts, and analysis of problem sets to build a progressively larger schema for the problem space--may lead to practical procedures for instructional design and task analysis. Sixty-four…

A framework for analyzing the social organization of education in nonclassroom environments is developed, based on observations of students in an experiential learning program. The argument is made that the process of education must be understood by the effect of the broader social context in which it occurs. (Author/SK)

Task-centered social work, like many other short-term treatment models, assumes that the degree of concentration on a problem is positively related to change. This study examines that assumption. (Author)

A profoundly retarded adult was taught to open doors having a standard rotary door knob through prompting and fading techniques in a backward chaining sequence. (CL)

The article presents three case studies in which severely handicapped adolescents were taught the use of a frisbee, how to operate a cassette tape recorder, and electronic bowling skills. (DB)