Describes the Minimal Acceptable Performance Standards (MAPS), which measures worker performance at Consolidated Edison Company. Steps in establishing standards are: to identify tasks to be performed, to establish behavior-oriented objectives, and to write items for lesson-plan content. Sample MAPS forms for a "job performance walkdown"…

This student module on establishing a company safety and health program is one of 50 modules concerned with job safety and health. This module outlines the fundamentals of how a company safety and health program is established and operated. Following the introduction, nine objectives (each keyed to a page in the text) the student is expected to…

Outlines a procedure for designing an industrial skills training program in which the trainer prepares a job analysis by actually learning about the job duties and equipment; writes instructional objectives for each equipment section; and combines sets of job photos, scripts, objectives, and other information into a study guide for trainees. (MF)

Employee and facilitator manuals are provided for two courses developed for a workplace literacy program: Communications on the Job I and II. Each 10-session course begins with a preassessment and ends with a postassessment. Components of each 2-hour session are objectives, informational materials, and problems or exercises. The facilitator copies…

Employee and facilitator manuals are provided for two courses developed for a workplace literacy program: Mathematics on the Job I and II. Each 10-session course begins with a preassessment and ends with a postassessment. Components of each 2-hour session are objectives, informational materials, and problems or exercises. The facilitator copies…

This document contains the final performance report, evaluation, and curriculum from a program that provided basic literacy instruction for employees of Chahta Enterprises in Mississippi. The final report describes development of curriculum materials that matched the reading and math tasks of production and quality control jobs; reading and math…

General Electric Company (GE) of Erie, Pennsylvania, hosts onsite literacy classes in conjunction with the Northwest Tri-County Unit. The development of the inplant microcomputer literacy lab expands the offerings available to the participating adult basic education and General Educational Development program students by supplying software and…