This report is intended to serve as a resource for the development of management and instructional guidelines for computer-based education (CBE). Although the data in it were gathered from PLATO projects only, they represent projects which varied widely in target populations (elementary through professional students), subject matter content, type…

Prepared for use by County Extension Home Economics Agents in training program aides, this document is a compilation of actual experiences reported by program aides working in a food and nutrition education program. These cases can be called "critical incidents" since they represent areas of success or failure in the minds of the aides.…

This report describes a group problem-solving approach to educating disadvantaged elementary school children. It is suggested that aggressive verbal exchange and active solution to real life problems are potent tools for helping disadvantaged students become active learners and creative participants in society. Methods for conducting such a group…

Describes a method for trainers to identify critical job requirements or critical behaviors important in doing a job effectively or ineffectively. Suggests ways of recording/describing incidents and presents questions that must be addressed. Reviews steps in the critical incidents process. (CSS)

Participants in a two-day inservice multicultural training program (n=51) were compared with 30 controls. Participants showed modest increases in cultural awareness and skills and significant improvement in responses to the Critical Incident Quality Index. (SK)

Explains the development of action-learning approaches incorporated into the Adult Education and Human Resource Development master's degree program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Discusses the linkage between action and reflection, the questioning of underlying assumptions, self-assessment of critical incidents, and incorporation of…

This study focused on the initial reasons individuals enter and complete the teacher education program, and pass the state test. These same individuals do not enter the public school classroom. This study identified meaningful categories for incidents reported as effective or helpful to successfully facilitating their decision to enter and…

Simulations currently play a key role in facilitating competency training for incident commanders of the emergency services. The article briefly reviews current practice in incident command training and considers the effectiveness of simulation usage and practice for crisis management more generally.

In this paper, we analyzed the descriptions of learning provided by 234 College of Education students from Finland and Canada and compared them with Whitehead's (1932/1962) epistemological theory of the rhythm of mental growth. The students were asked to "Give a concrete example of a situation in which you really learned something." The…

The objectives of this study were to: (a) determine if very young children will wear an accelerometer for relatively long periods of time and comply with the protocol for its use; (b) evaluate how well a caregiver can estimate the activity level of his/her infant or toddler when completing an exposure-oriented time activity diary; and (c) compare…

Twenty-six college and university presidents were interviewed and asked to report at least four incidents which they felt had been critical to their effectiveness as presidents. The great majority of the incidents (94.6percent) were found to involve the internal affairs of the institution. (Editor/PG)

Critical Incident Technique (CIT) involves the collection of real-world examples of behavior that characterize either very effective or very ineffective performance of some activity. The principal advantage of the CIT is that it generates data based on actual behavior rather than on a particular researcher's subjectivity. The CIT has much to offer…

Three basic conceptual issues that underlie studies of the content of instruction are explored in this paper. These include the need to reach a common definition of the concept of content of instruction, to undertake a serious analysis of the taxonomies presently employed in studies of content, and to critically examine the units of observation…

A MODIFIED CRITICAL INCIDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FORM FOR HOURLY MACHINING PERSONNEL WAS DEVELOPED, AND CERTAIN RATER AND RATING INSTRUMENT CHARACTERISTICS WERE INVESTIGATED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THEIR EFFECTS ON THE VARIANCE OF PERFORMANCE. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH FRONTLINE FOREMEN TO COLLECT PERFORMANCE SPECIMENS WHICH WERE EVALUATED…

This document is a compilation of charts that outline the major activities conducted in the study, planning, and preparation phases of the Virginia Beach, Virginia, 45-15 year-round education pilot program. The critical incidents chart identifies the major events of this period from the initiation of a feasibility study through the actual pilot…