Discussion of performance analysis and improvement focuses on a performance system that is regulated by feedback from both internal and external sources. Discusses human performance technology (HPT), which focuses on the goals of the organizational structure; and explains the macrosystem, including metrics and standards; the microsystem; and…

Investigated the effectiveness of a training procedure corresponding to a component analysis of a hypothesis-testing task in improving kindergarten children's problem-solving abilities. (Author/JMB)

This article describes and evaluates a problem solving procedure in which senior executives, accompanied by a personnel or employee relations officer, conduct informal give and take sessions with small groups of employees. (LY)

Designed to explore differences in interactions between groups of teams entered in the Texas Future Problem Solving Program (TFPS), the study examined the question-response-feedback pattern of interaction used by four TFPS gifted sixth grade teams. TFPS teams are encouraged to formulate 20 responses to a situation in a given amount of time. Group…

TWENTY-SIX GROUPS OF FIVE SUBJECTS EACH WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF FEEDBACK ON SUBSEQUENT GROUP BEHAVIOR. EACH GROUP WAS GIVEN TEN PROBLEMS, EACH TO BE SOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, BEFORE AND AFTER A DISCUSSION PERIOD. THE USE OF AN ANALOG COMPUTER PERMITTED THE EXPERIMENTER TO GIVE FEEDBACK ON THE FIRST SOLUTION BEFORE THE DISCUSSION BEGAN…

Twenty gifted learners (11 years old) demonstrated performance superior to 20 average age matched learners on problem solving tasks related to memory and attention, but not on all measures related to performance efficiency and strategy selection. Average Ss used significantly more advanced strategies when continued access to feedback was…

Performance feedback and checklists were used to improve the degree to which middle-school teams adhered to elements of systematic problem solving as described in the Instructional Consultation literature (Bartels & Mortenson, 2002; Rosenfield, 1987). Direct observations of problem-solving meetings were conducted to determine levels of adherence…

In a previous study (Watson, 1960), college students were told that a three-number string ("2, 4, 6") conformed to a rule and that they had to guess the rule by proposing other three-number strings; they were then told whether each guess was right or wrong. However, it was suspected that, since the subject's hypothesis was falsified by…

Suggests that a model of learned helplessness must give equal weight to motivational and cognitive components. Subjects were 102 female and 58 male college students in psychology classes. (MP)

A previous article, EA 500 335, is criticized for claiming the applicability of the CRAM model without research documentation. (MF)

Explores several pitfalls that can defeat technical and management consulting endeavors in organizations, highlighting directions given to a consultant concerning a problem, the "solution machine," the relationship between client and advisor, feedback and flexibility, unmade commitments, and the narrow view of a problem. Fourteen references are…

The experiment reported here investigated how verbalization of subtraction with regrouping operations influenced learning disabled students' self-efficacy and skillful performance, and also explored how effort attributional feedback affected these achievement behaviors. Learning disabled students (N=90) from grades 6 through 8 received training…

This memorandum describes an approach to the development of school organization in which the basic research hypothesis is that the structure of a school or school district must be congruent with its technology and its environment if problems are to be solved and educational innovations are to succeed. Current environmental, instructional, and…

This study investigated the effects of informative feedback on a matching task with three combinations of verbal feedback and three levels of task complexity. The three types of feedback were right wrong (RW), nothing wrong (NW), and right nothing (RN). The three levels of task complexity were defined in terms of number of irrelevant stimulus…