Describes and lists currently available software useful in social studies classes. Such software (including spreadsheets, databases, survey questionnaires) helps students apply quantitative methods and information-handling skills that are currently used in solving complex real-world problems. (JN)

The technical objective of this research was to develop a computer method for arranging a number of individual task patterns, representing job incumbents in a given occupational area, into groups or clusters. This advanced computerized technique for clustering work tasks produces homogeneous clusters of task patterns using an input of tasks…