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O'Keefe, Robert D.; Lopez, Juan R.; Xu, Jun; Lall, Roger K. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Currently traditional institutions of higher learning are facing more robust competition from alternative educational programs and non- traditional institutions offering certificates and degrees. In addition to this competition the programs offered by the traditional institutions of higher learning are being called into question by graduates; the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, College Graduates, College Seniors, Graduation Requirements
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Nutt, Roberta L. – Counseling Psychologist, 2011
The authors of the Major Contribution have developed a complex and elegant three-level training model on which they suggest advanced microskills may be built. Prior to the description of their model, they have built a case that current microskills training has proved foundationally important but insufficient to training needs. They then invite…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Research, Doctoral Programs, Counseling Psychology
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Kupzyk, Sara; Daly, Edward J., III; Ihlo, Tanya; Young, Nicholas D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
Response to Intervention provides a continuum of instruction across intensity levels through multitiered intervention models. A lot of work to date has been devoted to how to configure tiers to ensure the appropriate increases in intensity. Much less work has been devoted to making adjustments "within" tiers to attempt to forestall the need for…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Frankel, Marc T.; Schechtman, Judith L. – Independent School, 2010
Schools are demanding ever more sophisticated executive skills from heads these days. As a result, the headship position is beginning to resemble that of a "chief executive," while at the same time retaining all of the academic and interpersonal components of the past. Many schools require their heads to at least understand, if not be…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Management Development, Leadership Training
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Wolstenholme, Janet Z-K.; Evers, Fred – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
"Transition from school to work" courses are an excellent way to help fourth-year university students as they complete their studies and prepare for the world of work. In this paper we present "The Bases of Competence" (Evers, Rush, & Berdrow, 1998), a model of the advanced skills used by university graduates in the…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Seniors, Models
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Rydant, A. L.; Shiplee, Brian A.; Smith, John P.; Middlekauff, Bryon D. – Journal of Geography, 2010
This article addresses the development of a conceptual model of fieldwork practice and the creation of an associated set of skills for the geosciences. The set of eight generic and seventeen specific skills is applied in two international field courses to demonstrate the utility of such a skills-centered model across a broad range of venues,…
Descriptors: Field Instruction, Curriculum Development, Field Studies, Earth Science
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Taatgen, Niels – Cognitive Science, 2005
Emerging parallel processing and increased flexibility during the acquisition of cognitive skills form a combination that is hard to reconcile with rule-based models that often produce brittle behavior. Rule-based models can exhibit these properties by adhering to 2 principles: that the model gradually learns task-specific rules from instructions…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Models, Skill Development
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Ryder, Joan M.; Redding, Richard E. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Discussion of instructional systems development (ISD) focuses on recent developments in cognitive task analysis and describes the Integrated Task Analysis Model, a framework for integrating cognitive and behavioral task analysis methods within the ISD model. Three components of expertise are analyzed: skills, knowledge, and mental models. (96…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Instructional Development, Models
Repinski, Marilyn; Bartsch, Maryjo – Performance and Instruction, 1996
Describes a five-step approach to performance management which includes (1) redefining tasks; (2) identifying skills; (3) determining what development tools are necessary; (4) prioritizing skills development; and (5) developing an action plan. Presents a hiring model that includes job analysis, job description, selection, goal setting, evaluation,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Job Analysis, Job Development, Job Performance
Renzaglia, Adelle; Hutchins, Margaret – Diagnostique, 1987
The article describes an assessment model, developed by Project CO-OP at the University of Virginia, with strategies for conducting community assessment, trainee (moderately to profoundly handicapped) skill assessment, and job-trainee matches. Procedures exemplify methods for systematically collecting and analyzing information to facilitate…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Employment Potential, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis
Munce, John W. – 1982
A skills model and clustering system are presented, based on the assumptions that the tasks of all work, including scholarship, require many similar skills that can be identified and clustered. Six levels of competency are addressed: possession, combination, application, quantity, quality, and mastery. These skills can be clustered into adaptive…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cluster Grouping, College Students, Competence
Kelley, John M. – 1977
This paper describes in some detail Siegfreid's Process Mapping Model for describing human performance. The model's application to task analysis and the advantages of using it when constructing assessment strategies and instruments are discussed. Examples of the model's use in building portfolios, behavioral rating scales, and skill demonstration…
Descriptors: Adults, Counselor Performance, Employees, Evaluation Methods
Hutchins, Edwin – 1987
This paper discusses the relationship between the mediation of task performance by some structure that is not inherent in the task domain itself and the phenomenon of automatization, in which skilled performance becomes effortless or phenomenologically "automatic" after extensive practice. The use of a common simple explicit mediating…
Descriptors: Adults, Artificial Intelligence, Check Lists, Cognitive Processes
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Dever, Richard B. – Exceptional Children, 1989
Described is the "Taxonomy of Community Living Skills," a guide for curriculum developers. Experts (n=59) in mental retardation were surveyed to assess the taxonomy's coherence, appropriateness, completeness, etc. Responses to the model's five domains (personal maintenance and development, homemaking and community life, vocational,…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Boud, D. J.; Gray, T. G. F. – 1978
Skills tutorials for first year engineering students at the University of New South Wales, Australia, were introduced in order to develop an awareness of certain conceptual skills commonly exercised by practicing engineers. Particular skills include the manipulation of information in different forms, translation from one form to another,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Descriptions, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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