This manual is designed to serve as a teaching aid to coaches and physical educators in the field of women's aquatics. The articles cover the following subjects in the area of water sports: (1) standards in sports for girls and women; (2) women in Olympic swimming competition; (3) conditioning programs designed to attain physical fitness through…

This collection contains fifty physical education objectives, related sample items, and directions for administering and scoring, and is divided into four categories. The first measures movement skills: body awareness, perception, locomotion, axial skills, balance, and gross motor coordination in games and sports. The second category measures…

The general disposition and effects of prevailing manpower policies and programs for the elderly in the United States suggest that mandatory retirement will eventually be replaced by flexible retirement with no age limit. Inflationary trends may be possible causal factors which reduce post-retirement incomes, increase the age of the work force,…

MODIA (Method of Designing Instructional Alternatives) was developed to help the Air Force manage resources for formal training by systematically and explicitly relating quantitative requirements for training resources to the details of course design and course operation during the planning stage. It suggests approaches to course design not…

This book of tests is designed to assess the competencies of the Child Development Associate (CDA) trainee: both what the trainee knows and how well the trainee works with children. The tests are designed as posttests to be administered after the trainee's completion of the relevant learning module. Each test consists of multiple choice questions,…

A study investigating institutional factors affecting the performance of the employment service (ES) focused on (1) organizational characteristics conducive to high performance in state ES agencies and their local operations and (2) the external linkages of the ES with state and local politics, other agencies, and the U.S. Department of Labor…

A model of administrator development was tested in the 21 colleges, graduate and professional schools of a major state university system. Data were gathered from 494 administrators. Administrator development was measured in three ways: (1) individual rate of advancement, (2) perceptions of mobility and "success," and (3) perceptions of…

Presented are student performance objectives, a student progress chart, and assignment sheets with objective and diagnostic measures for the stated performance objectives in college arithmetic and pre-algebra. Topics covered include: sets, whole numbers, integers, decimal fractions, fractions, ratio and proportion, percent, powers and roots, the…

CAFETERIA-type rating systems, modeled after the one developed at Purdue University, allow the instructors being evaluated to select those items which their students will use in evaluating the instructors. Such computer-assisted systems allow the instructor to tailor the evaluation to the particular instructional strategies used. This study…

Various models that have been devised to evaluate the performance of information retrieval systems are reviewed. Such models fall into three categories: (1) evaluation from the viewpoint of the user, who is primarily concerned with how well the system responds to his query; (2) evaluation from the system operator's standpoint, which focuses on the…

The Reading Progress Scale (RPS) was administered to 4,714 students from 46 courses ranging from accounting to welding at Lansing Community College in two studies conducted from fall 1975 to spring 1976. The scale which assesses reading skills sought to answer two research questions: (1) is the RPS a good indicator of student persistence in a…

Since research on the effect of questions adjunct to written materials has usually ignored learner aptitudes, this study was designed to explore the interaction of a verbal aptitude measure (vocabulary ability) with two types of questions following a prose selection on logical implications. Two hundred fifty-two tenth-grade students were randomly…

The Minister's Advisory Committee on Student Achievement (MACOSA) of Alberta, Canada studied student achievement in grades 3, 6, 9, and 12. Students were tested in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies (grade 12 only). Tests were based upon cognitive objectives considered to be important to the curriculum, and results were to…

This paper explores the relationship between communication style and organizational effectiveness. The first section of the paper reviews eight empirical studies that illustrate the importance of communication style in organizational effectiveness. The second section of the paper discusses management functions and particular communication styles…

Some of the theoretical and methodological problems with current practices in evaluating instruction at the higher education level are reviewed. Controversy over the evaluation of instruction in higher education has resulted at least in part from inadequate instrumentation. The instruments for instructional rating now used include administrator…