A questionnaire was sent to a sample of directors of Allied Health programs in seventy-two community colleges accredited by Middle Atlantic States in order to ascertain the organizational pattern of community colleges offering Allied Health programs and to analyze the responsibilities of directors of these programs. A response rate of 52% was…

Designs a testing situation to examine the presence of combinatorial analysis, to establish construct validity in the use of an instrument, Combinatorial Analysis Behavior Observation Scheme (CABOS), and to investigate the presence of the schema in young adolescents. (Author/GA)

Fourth-grade good and poor readers were given six different digit span tasks in which task structure (simultaneous vs sequential presentation of digits) and modality of presentation (visual vs auditory) were varied. Task structure was more powerful in predicting test performance than was modality of presentation. (Author/BH)

Discussed is the process of hierarchical task analysis (a tool used to decide what to teach and when to teach it) as it relates to the setting of instructional goals and objectives. (BD)

The paper proposes a curriculum development system for career education with the jobs skills that students will need as the basis for specifying behavioral objectives. It discusses job tasks, educational outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation and includes two tables: (1) a classification of verbs related to a cognitive taxonomy and (2)…

The Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Auditory Impulsivity Task were administered to 81 fourth-grade students. Fifty-five percent of the students maintained classifications as reflective, impulsive, fast-accurate, or slow-inaccurate across the two modalities, indicating that the two tasks measured different abilities. The authors suggest that…

Research based upon the concept that teaching consists of separate, enumerable acts has proven the opposite: that it is composed of interrelated activities and influences. (MJB)

Describes the Career Education Center's (Florida State University) development of the "Automotive Mechanics Catalog" (a job inventory noting performance objectives for specific occupational programs), using the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) model. Also describes the development of curriculum materials using…

Competency-based vocational education is defined and broken down into ten basic components (e.g., developing occupational inventories, needed materials, and lesson plans; analyzing occupational survey data and existing materials; updating the task analysis; and revising). Pointers for checking the system and moving it to higher levels of…

Using the metaphor of a "roadmap," this article provides suggestions for strategic long-range planning for school districts. Critical factors include a mission statement, strategic goals and objectives, and specific game plans for accomplishing and evaluating tasks. (TE)

In a simulation training program based on a task analysis approach, a moderately mentally retarded 25-year-old male was taught to operate an automated banking machine. The subject maintained appropriate banking skills using an actual automated banking machine up to six months after training. (Author/JW)

Verbal sequence training was used to teach a moderately mentally retarded woman to sequence job-related tasks. Learning to say the tasks in the proper sequence resulted in the employee performing her tasks in that sequence, and the employee was capable of mediating her own work behavior when scheduled changes occurred. (Author/JDD)

Explores content or contextual validity of social rule classifications produced by sample of 12-year-old child coders. Analyses of variances revealed that categorization schemes generated by child coders were contextually valid as determined by raters' mean ratings. (Author/RWB)