Designed to acquaint high school students with the common competencies related to all public service jobs, this manual is intended for use (along with its accompanying teacher's manual, CE 013 654) in a one-quarter course, "Preparing for Public Service." (The course is the second in a series of three developed as a comprehensive approach…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of five terminal objectives presented in this curriculum guide for a basic gasoline engine mechanics course at the secondary level. (For the intermediate course guide see CE 010 946.) The materials were developed for a two semester (2 hours daily)…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of nine terminal objectives for an intermediate welding course. The materials were developed for a 36-week (3 hours daily) course designed to prepare the student for employment in the field of welding. Electric welding and specialized (TIG & MIG)…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 25 terminal objectives for a basic appliance repair course. The materials were developed for a 36-week course (2 hours daily) designed to enable the student to be well-grounded in the fundamentals of electricity as well as applied electricity.…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of eight terminal objectives for an intermediate commercial and advertising art course for high school vocational students. The materials were developed for a two-semester (3 hours daily) course involving specialized classroom, shop, and practical…

Teaching critical treatment-related skills to behavior change agents is an important task. One such treatment-related skill is the ability to observe and specifically describe ongoing appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. In this study, the effectiveness of a training package in teaching behavior specificity was demonstrated in two experiments.…

This guide is intended to assist those interested in developing and/or assessing consumer skills. It is an accompanyment to a separate collection of survey items (mostly in a multiple choice format) designed to assess seventeen-year-olds' consumer skills. It is suggested that the items can be used as part of an item pool, as an instructional tool,…

This report reviews the role of technological factors in metalworking and the training required to adapt to new metalworking technologies. Focus is on whether firms that have adopted the new technologies have encountered obstacles in training and developing the skills of their work forces. The report is organized in three parts. Parts I and II…

Comments of experienced teachers suggest that writing may be avoided in school not simply because of its inherent difficulty, but because its undertaking typically lacks connection to anything else in the lives of students or teachers. It is possible that teachers can best serve the acquisition of writing skills by structuring the social occasions…

A review of the literature of Performance Based Teacher Education (PBTE) programs indicates a void in the area of human skills teacher training. In response to this lack of relevant research, this paper presents a view of how group counseling procedures can successfully be integrated into PBTE as an approach to humanistic skills training. With…

This paper provides guidelines for the development of three distinct approaches to teaching interpersonal communication: a humanistic approach, a skills-oriented approach, and a business-oriented approach. For each approach, it describes assumptions underlying the development of curriculum, suggests questions for use in the generation of study…

Research studies in which severely retarded adults have been trained to perform complex industrial tasks are reviewed. It is explained that results demonstrate that retarded workers can learn to insert electronic components into a printed or etched circuit board. Reported is a pilot study which is investigating two adult retardates' ability to…

The role of decision making and keystroking in the psychomotor activity of office typing tasks was assessed for second-semester, fourth-semester, and terminal college students under three different work conditions: (1) pre-arranged, (2) unarranged without erasing errors, and (3) unarranged with erasing errors. All differences for main effects for…

The guide was developed as part of Project Prepare, a demonstration program designed to teach disadvantaged parents adult basic education skills and to show these parents how and what to teach their preschool children. It contains activities, advice, and resources for parents. All materials pertain to creative play for preschoolers that develop…

The competency-based curriculum developed by the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is discussed in this paper. The primary purpose of the college is to develop a curriculum preparing students to secure professional jobs in public and community service (as opposed to going to graduate…