The effect of externally-mediated goal setting on intrinsic motivation was examined using a laboratory assembly task. College male subjects (N=80) were randomly assigned in a factorial design including two conditions of goal setting (assigned vs. no goals) and two conditions of initial task interest (interesting vs. boring task). The results show…

TO TEST THE HOULE THEORY THAT ADULTS HAVE THREE ORIENTATIONS TOWARD LEARNING--THE GOAL, THE ACTIVITY, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORIENTATIONS, A REVISED SHEFFIELD LEARNING-ORIENTATION SCALE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 704 ADULTS TO DETERMINE LEARNING ORIENTATION PRIORITIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ATTENDED 32 AGRICULTURAL AND HOME ECONOMICS MEETINGS OF COOPERATIVE…

When experience shows that certain behavior has a low expectation of leading to valued goals, alternative behavior, which has a greater expectation of leading to these goals, or of coping with failure to attain them, will be adopted. This principle serves as the basis for the central hypothesis in this study: that as two goals (academic…

Since most of the part-time faculty at Montgomery College (Maryland) teach in the evening, communication with administrators, division chairmen, and department chairmen is often difficult. This handbook was compiled to summarize information useful to part-time faculty members. After a general introduction to the philosophy, objectives, and…

This handbook/catalogue is divided into three parts, the first of which is entitled "Handbook for Staff Development," and was written for those new to New Hampshire, the education profession, or the concept of staff development. It contains background information, philosophy, and procedures on staff development; it seeks to encapsulate…

Approaches which recognize the inadequacy of many existing faculty preparation programs, while facilitating role and career transition of new faculty members are needed by today's 2-year colleges. Recognizing these facts, this monograph looks at the orientation program as one solution. Recent research on faculty background in terms of occupational…

The geographic orientation requirement for the Army's lighter aircraft, and for Army aviation as a system, is a system-analysis and system-design problem that appears to have defied solution. The factors considered in this paper indicate that the requirement is not filled by a simple "more sophisticated machine" systems approach. Instead, the man…

Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS) is a useful management tool for libraries if directed toward service to the library user. The statement of objectives constitutes a foundation for application of PPBS, and guidelines for how to state objectives and goals, and how to handle them are given. A list of sixteen types of questions that…

The non-academic adult is defined for the English as a second language teacher on the basis of his attitudes toward language. He doesn't care to theorize about language; he just wants enough mastery of it to function in the particular social milieu in which he expects to live and work. The ESL teacher should find out what the student's social and…

This manual describes the scoring procedures for the Greenberger-Entwisle Need-Achievement Pictures. This instrument was developed (1) to provide a set of pictures suitable for a wide age range of subjects, (2) to increase the comparability of findings, and (3) to increase the reliability of measurement. General instructions for scoring the…

Play and games are widely held to meet a vital role in the socialization process. This study explores the differences in their socialization impact by race. Children in the sixth grade at a rural school were surveyed with regard to their participation in four types of games: individual, sports, board/card and party. Game experience was found to be…

The entering college freshman needs an orientation program that can provide him with the personal skills--a better understanding of himself and his learning style, development of communication skills--necessary to thrive in the college environment. At the National Conference on Student Stress in 1965, it was estimated that many students leave…

This document is an evaluative description of the program conducted by the New York City Board of Education during the 1968-69 school year. Opening chapters describe the two-phase evaluation design (descriptive and qualitative) and outline the program in which an initial group of 152 master teachers plus 100 more added in Febraury were assigned as…

Temple University's Intern Teaching Program, a self-supporting graduate program to develop liberal arts and science graduates as secondary school teachers, involves two years of full-time teaching and formal course work on the campus. A highly selective program, it leads to a provisional teaching certificate and a master's degree. An intensive…

The results of several research studies designed to evaluate different theories of work motivation are presented. Graen (1967), through hiring 169 high school girls to do a clerical task, showed that ability measures can account for far more performance variance than motivation variables such as expectancy and instrumentality. Similar results were…