To provide data for the construction of an 11th or 12th grade health occupations course in a rural high school, an extensive study was made of health needs and health occupation opportunities in the Rocky Mountain region and also of the official state plans for health facilities. From this analysis, the 10 entry-level occupations of ambulance…

In this paper on research into teacher behavior, the author considers first the current status of such research and the fact that the problem is so complex that no one knows or agrees what a competent teacher is. The difficulties of identifying and measuring teacher behaviors are discussed. The four broad areas of measurement (observation, student…

To help establish well-defined standards and norms for proficiency at realistic typing tasks, this investigation sought to establish difficulty indexes for three major classes of such tasks and to provide an initial pool of normative data for the development of the difficulty indexes. To gather the needed data, various subsets of eight tasks from…

The expectations held by five selected job groups for the administrative role of the County Extension Chairman's job group in the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service was studied. The groups included extension supervisors, specialists, county chairmen, agricultural agents, and home economics agents. A role model consisting of six…

This study examines selected administrative factors to discover their impact upon the functioning of a secondary school counselor. Three major null hypotheses are stated: there is no relationship between senior high school counselor' functions and (1) the organizational pattern of guidance of pupil services; (2) the competencies implied by…

The validity of the argument that non-promotion and subsequent repetition of the work in a grade will lead to an improvement in performance was examined. The subjects were 642 students in grades 8-11. The data was derived from the year-end marks that each student received in the subject areas, upon which the decision to promote or retain was made.…

This study investigates the effectiveness of an instruction-simulation videotape in training counselor candidates to use counselor-tacting response leads (CTRL's). Such verbal responses are viewed as essential to behavior modification therapy since they operationally define specific behavioral events and the stimulus conditions associated with…

The report discusses the use of systems techniques to answer the question of what should be taught in a prepracticum course, Techniques of Counseling. The approach required: (1) definition of counselor problem-solving functions, and (2) construction of a system model of effective counseling in order to identify the skills and information needed to…

In an attempt to improve students' written expression, this study tested two assumptions: (1) that if students were led through a series of oral language experiences to a realization of the relationships between oral and written sentence structures which they were encouraged to practice, they would write a variety of sentence structures; and (2)…

The purpose of this study was to compare national norms maintained by the National Business Entrance Testing Service with achievement, as measured by the National Busines s Entrance General Office Clerical and Typewriting Tests, of senior office-practice students in rural schools using the Mobile Office Education (MOE) program, in rural schools…

Specific objectives of this two-phase study included: (1) assessment of design of the behavioral objectives in all secondary level courses; (2) construction of criteria for evaluation of the design; (3) testing of objectives against the evaluative criteria and/or the specifications of the curriculum design; and (4) determination of the validity of…

The study investigated the manner in which locus of control (the degree to which an individual conceptualizes a relationship between his own behavior and the outcomes of this behavior) interacted with selected task and reinforcer variables in the performance of educable mentally handicapped boys. One hundred ninety-two adolescent males performed…

A conceptual category approach to the study of the comprehension of natural language is presented as an alternative to previous approaches made solely in terms of information gain or specific linguistic variables. Elementary school children between the ages of 6 and 11 years were given a referent identification task to test their comprehension of…

In order to develop instruments for use in the selection of vocational plant facilities specialists and their assistants, criteria were established from a literature review in the form of instrument items. These items arranged in two forms were rated by a 10-member jury on their degree of value. A second version was tested on teachers and local…

In this study, a systems methodology was devised for determing knowledge and skills common to piloting tasks required by differing aircraft missions to form a data base for developing a task oriented flight training program. The general approach was to identify and classify specific tasks performed by Air Force pilots, with the required level of…