Discusses three task analysis techniques utilized at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to review training programs: analysis of (1) job positions, (2) procedures, and (3) instructional presentations. All of these include task breakdown, relationship determination, and task restructuring. (MBR)

Results of three visual sequential memory tests and a group reading test given to 19 elementary students are discussed in terms of task analysis and structuralist approaches to analysis of reading skills. Relation of visual sequential memory to other reading subskills is considered in light of current reasearch. (CMG)

We investigated unjustified assumptions made by students when proving geometric statements. Geometric statements can be presented with a diagram or without. Diagrams can be accurate or sketchy. Unjustified assumptions may originate in an accompanying diagram. We thus asked whether the way in which a statement is presented has an effect on…

Corporate and educational settings increasingly require decision-making, problem-solving and other complex cognitive skills to handle ill-structured, or heuristic, tasks, but the growing need for heuristic task expertise has outpaced the refinement of task analysis methods for heuristic expertise. The Heuristic Task Analysis (HTA) Method was…

A goal mediational model to conceptualize the effects of students' motivational beliefs on their learning strategies was modified with the three goal orientations: task, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Questionnaires were administered to 161 Korean fifth graders (boys = 88; girls = 73) in an elementary school math class.…

The paper attempts to describe the training methods used in large industrial organizations in which the behavioral objective approach places emphasis upon what the trainee learns. (Author/AG)

To prepare job instructions, these steps are helpful: (1) make a job analysis worksheet, (2) list procedures in steps, (3) list tools, equipment, and materials needed, determine needs for (4) scientific information (5) mathematics knowledge, (6) drawing knowledge, (7) trade terms knowledge, (8) materials knowledge, and (9) safety precaution…

A detailed examination of work methods, procedures, and equipment, followed by preparation of written schedules for each custodian, can cut custodial costs without affecting the quality of cleanliness in the schools. (Author/MLF)

Missionary zeal must be supplemented by rigorous empirical research if environmental education is to efficiently contribute to the alleviation of environmental problems. Objectives pertinent to all programs are proposed, folklore influencing these programs is identified, and research issues fundamental to increasing the contributions of…

Highlights of a report by the National Education Association Research Division for School Library Manpower Project to identify duties performed by personnel in outstanding school libraries with unified library-audiovisual service. (Author/JS)

Field study investigates work groups in an oil refinery whose members are allowed to make their own decisions about task allocation. (Author/KJ)

The competency pattern and the task analysis are two approaches used to identify content that affects the distributive education curriculum. These and other research tools provide essential information about capabilities required for entrance into and persistence in careers at prescribed levels of distributive jobs. (Author)

Training for or altering the set" resulted in better performance. Subjects trained to perform correctly on the synthesis task did not do significantly better on conservation. (MH)

Probes children's behavioral sensitivity to variation in reward probability and magnitude (bribes) and suggests that preadolescent children do respond to promises of positive inducements for cooperation in a mixed-motive situation. (WY)