Think aloud data were gathered from 19 subjects solving three statistical problems. Good problem solvers differed from poor in that they (1) more often clarified essential concepts related to the problem, or (2) appeared to attend more closely to what was actually asked for in the problem. (Author/SJL)

The results of this study indicate that both single-goal and multi-goal variable practice conditions, given adequate amounts of practice, will lead to the development of a motor schema capable of accurately producing a novel response. (MM)

Factors contributing to successful performance of ball skills are examined. (MM)

Learning is possible in the absence of knowledge of performance when knowledge of results is present, but a higher level of performance is achieved when both types of information are present. (MM)

The study investigated the effects of syntactic order on the recall performance of ten oral hearing impaired, ten manual hearing impaired, and ten normal hearing children (ages 14 to 17 years). It was concluded that the hearing impaired Ss demonstrated evidence of processing syntactically structured material in a similar manner to normal hearing…

Language sampling was studied with normal four- and six-year-old children in three conditions (conversation, picture description with the experimenter and child looking at the stimuli, and picture description with the experimenter unable to view the stimuli with the child. (Author/CL)

Examined performance of over one hundred 6- to 10-year olds on three of each of the following tasks: processing speed, memory span, phonological skill, and articulation tasks assessing speed with which they could say familiar stimuli. Found that performance on span tasks was predicted by phonology and articulation tasks but not by age or…

The relative merits of two prominent lines of inquiry into the linkage between organizational culture and effectiveness (culture type and strong culture hypotheses) were studied with 334 colleges and universities. Findings support both approaches and suggest that alternative culture types are differentially effective on different performance…

Two studies examined whether 4-year-olds' difficulty using relational information in spatial tasks was due, in part, to their inability to deal with situations where both objective and egocentric cues were available and pointed to different responses. Findings indicated that the presence of conflict significantly affected children's performance in…

Two studies with 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds examined whether young children can differentiate expertise in the minds of others. Findings indicated that all children could correctly attribute observable knowledge to familiar experts, such as a car mechanic. Preschoolers had difficulty making attribution of knowledge of scientific principles to…

Discusses the organizational mindset of human performance technology (HPT) practitioners at the 2001 International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) International Conference. Outlines the framework for organizational alignment, the importance for gatekeepers (those who provide access to the company to outsiders; need to development of a…

Three experiments in which photo or video presentations could guide one's search for a hidden object showed that under certain circumstances even 24-month-olds displayed representational insight. The first two experiments replicated earlier findings of chance performance across 4 trials, with 24-month-olds performing above chance in 3 of 4…

Summarizes the results of the American Society for Training and Development Human Resource and Performance Management Survey of 1996 that examined the performance outcomes of downsizing and high performance work systems, explored the relationship between high performance work systems and downsizing, and asked whether some downsizing practices were…

A. S. Kaufman (1994) recommended that clinicians substitute Symbol Search, a new subtest, for the Coding subtest when calculating Performance and Full Scale IQs on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III. Tables are provided for accurate derivation of IQs, percentile ranks, and confidence intervals when this substitution is made. (SLD)