Research is presented that suggests three possible factors that hinder the career mobility of deaf federal employees: communication problems, lack of comparable education, and unawareness of appropriate behavior. Practical steps that employees may take to improve their situation are outlined. (Author/JDD)

This article presents a queuing model simulation of scientific productivity utilizing critical path analysis. Creativity is found to have a large positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect on productivity, depending on the stage of the problem-solving process to which it is applied and the nature of the bottlenecks inherent to the specific…

Case studies of six high-level federal government administrators examined their political skills, management/leadership abilities, technical expertise, and personality. Among the ingredients of effective performance were good planning, organizational communication, goal orientation, good interpersonal skills, honesty, and high ethical standards.…

A review of 45 published studies yielded 518 pairs of response times (RTs) consisting of a mean RT for persons with mental retardation and the corresponding mean RT for persons without mental retardation. RTs of individuals with mental retardation increased linearly as a function of RTs for persons without mental retardation in corresponding…

Performance technology and instructional design are affected by the philosophical approaches of learners and teachers. The theories of constructivism (reality is constructed by individuals) and objectivism (reality is external but accessible to individuals) lead to different understandings of human cognition and affect both instructional design…

Data from a survey of over 1,300 Filipino enterprises are used to construct indices for measuring performance in recruitment, training, labor relations, and other personnel practices. The indices are proposed as a way to identify exemplary human resource practices in terms of equity and efficiency. (SK)

The observed listening performances of 64 children (ages 7-11) with central auditory processing (CAP) disorders were evaluated. Data indicated wide variations in listening performance depending upon the listening conditions and listening functions being rated. Findings suggested that these children had difficulties in both stressful and ideal…

Discussion of working environments that enhance performance highlights a holistic planning model; activity-based versus organizational-based planning; private and collaborative spaces; worker involvement in the planning process; and measuring effectiveness versus efficiency. (LRW)

This study of 213 high school and 211 postsecondary students with deafness found that limited syntactic competence may limit a reader's ability to apply vocabulary skills for reading comprehension. Repeated Reading is described as a promising strategy for developing syntactic competence. (JDD)

Presents a logical analysis of the characteristics of indexing and their effects on retrieval. The foundational questions of performance evaluation and the basic quantitative performance measures for binary noninteractive retrieval systems are established. The effects of indexing devices, indexing exhaustivity, specificity, correctness, and…

This study found that 43 school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing students did not perform as well as a matched group of hearing students on problem-solving tasks. As they got older, both groups made incremental gains in problem-solving ability, and the gap between groups narrowed. (Author/JDD)

This study found that 13 autistic subjects performed less well on cognitive than on visual perspective-taking tasks at two levels of difficulty. Autistic subjects performed as well as 13 intellectually handicapped controls and 13 normal controls on visual perspective-taking tasks but more poorly than controls on cognitive perspective-taking tasks.…

Forty-five normal-hearing college students were assessed on lipreading performance at three visual distances, with three treatment conditions. All three groups showed an overall decrease in lipreading performance with increasing distance. Subjects who received combined lipreading and Tactaid II+ training performed better across all distances than…

Research indicates the process of menstruation has no effect on female college students' academic performance when measured by quantitative tests, and it appears subjective complaints of paramenstrual dysfunction originate in socially mediated beliefs and expectations. Implications for academic assessment, student counseling, employment policy,…

The work preferences of four adults with severe handicaps were assessed, and three choice-related situations were presented. The study found that clients attended to work tasks almost twice as much when they chose their tasks and when assigned to work on preferred tasks, versus when assigned to work on nonpreferred tasks. (Author/JDD)