Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, developed a secondary school teaching program called Teaching Skill Goals (TSG) which places the responsibility for skills development with the individual. The program emphasizes identification of specific segments of the teaching act most likely to be developed by short term efforts and a process…

How task analysis--the reduction of skills needed to master a complex objective to sequential behavioral steps--can help art teachers meet the needs of handicapped learners is discussed. Rather than emphasizing activities for disabled learners, emphasis should be placed on the skills learners must master to complete the activity. (RM)

Examines project teams and performance-centered design and electronic performance support systems. Topics include performance improvement; technology development; skills; subject expertise; organizational communication; the role-skill paradox; task analysis; and interpersonal communication. (LRW)

Techniques were developed for designing instruction for discipline-based curriculum areas. The approach integrated aspects of previous work in behavioral objectives, the structure of knowledge, learning hierarchies, and information-processing psychology and made explicit their relations to instructional design. Three kinds of analysis were…

Summarizes five task analysis approaches to determining what people need to know and do to perform their jobs successfully. (EM)

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…

The report presents a brief summary of the development and application of a taxonomy of undergraduate pilot training (UPT) tasks and skills. A surface analysis format based on cues, mental actions, and motor actions was developed which described flying tasks in terms of the sequential elements within each task. A set of classification rules was…

Critical factors in the phenomenon of scientist's and engineer's transition from working as specialists to working as supervisors or managers were studied among 489 employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Institutes of Health to discover ways of avoiding or overcoming transition problems. Bench scientists…

To establish a vocational education program that is relevant to the actual job requirements, the specific activities associated with the job must first be identified. The technique used to secure and present information related to job activities is known as job analysis. (SSH)

Five weighting methods for combining multiple criteria into a single composite were evaluated on 117 bank tellers. Four of the five methods (management, weights, equal weights, unit weights and factor weights) yielded nearly identical results. The fifth method (canonical weights) correlated almost zero with the other methods. (Author/PN)

Synthesizes the results of three previous task force efforts into a list of 25 tasks frequently needed in educational research and evaluation, and the skills and knowledge required to perform them. Tasks listed hold for the late 60's and early 70's. Developments subsequent to 1971 are not considered. (AM)

A model is described for developing instructional programs in teacher education that is based on an analysis of the system of teacher education. (Author)

Article proposes a specific technique, the use of simple index cards, which have been called Lippert Cards, to facilitate the process of analysis and synthesis in instructional design. (Author)