This study sought to compare the relative values of the structured and unstructured approaches to the work experience portion of cooperative education programs with the additional objective of preparing guidelines for developing the structure of a work experience. A total of 32 students, 16 experimental and 16 control, from four Texas Community…

In a study of five midwestern firms, 182 employees from three organizational levels were interviewed concerning: office costs concern, employee productivity, performance appraisal, training, utilization and development, and selection practices. Selected findings for each area are discussed as they relate to business education, indicating a need…

Discusses the appraisal interview as a technique for assessing employee performance. It first covers the organizational benefits of appraising employee job performance; then, using an appraisal behavior model as the basis, describes four ways to conduct an appraisal interview, with emphasis on the most effective. (EM)

The use of an elaborative process by kindergarten children in the performance of verbally presented arithmetic addition problems was investigated. A static rather than dynamic verbally described relation between stimulus sets resulted in more correct responses for two of nine Developmental Level X Prompt Condition groups, supporting the use of…

Several hypotheses were tested: (1) task behavior in a Montessori classroom and an experimental activity are correlated; (2) teacher criticism causes low task persistence in both situations; and (3) praise causes higher involvement in both situations. Results confirmed all hypotheses except that between classroom reward and experimental…

This is part three of a three-part series concerned with the empirical development of homogeneous families of insurance company jobs based on data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). This part involves validity generalizations within the job families which resulted from the previous research. (Editor/RK)

Three forms of a symbol-digit substitution task were administered to 62 female and 96 male college students. Results support the theory that the superior performance of women over men on the Digit-Symbol Substituion subtest of the Wechsler scales is due to their greater ability to encode symbols verbally. (Author/JAC)

A directed forgetting task was used in an investigation of the conditions under which normal and educable mentally retarded junior high school students would disregard irrelevant information. Results showed that irrelevant information in memory interfered with the performance of only the retarded group, when given a minimal explanation of the…

In a study to investigate the effectiveness of manpower development programs in improving vocational adjustment of rural disadvantaged residents in western Tennessee, findings appeared to indicate that training made some improvement in the lives of the experimental group (residents who participated in manpower training programs) as compared to the…

Shows a wide variety of task performance ability. Supports the hypothesis that the tasks require the use of the same or a unified set of cognitive processes. (RL)

The affective components of a situation were powerful determinants of the facilitative self-control of children in the situation. Both the ongoing affective tone of the child's cognition during task performance, which replicated the results of Masters and Santrock (1976), and the ecological setting were linked to the continued maintenance of…

Attempts to determine whether moderate frustration when applied to normal, healthy children would result in decrements of performance in figural creative thinking. Also investigates the interaction effects of level of academic achievement and sex with frustration on figural creative thinking. (Author/RK)

Discusses an experimental comparison of the structured versus unstructured training of semiskilled production workers to determine the effects of the two types of training on productivity. (ABM)

This is the first half of a dissertation about a method of predicting the learning time required for tasks consisting of manual skills and is mainly concerned with the fields of production, production planning, and operator training. The article will be continued in the December issue. (Author/MS)

Data lend support of the contention that the introduction into a situation of a salient feature phenomenally consistent with the behavior enacted will tend to attract to it causal attributions and consequently affect attitudes toward the behavior even though the feature has not actually caused it. (Authors/CB)