The study described in the report constructed a task analysis for the adult vocational education coordinators in Wisconsin in the areas of business education, general education, home economics, agriculture, health, trade, and industry. The survey instrument contained two parts: the first gathered factual and statistical information about the…

The report describes a project conducted from 1972 to 1975 for vertically articulating curricula in Minnesota's secondary and post-secondary vocational-technical institutions. Central to the project was the construction of valid task inventories for the various vocational programs which would help to ensure that vocational curricula provided the…

The report, directed toward hospital administrators, chiefs of services, and health personnel in general, outlines the work at the Center for Medical Manpower Studies (CMMS) (completed and in progress) concerned with restructuring of health occupations. Briefly described is the growth of health care services, expenditures, and personnel.…

The report describes the results of an Air Force occupational survey of the television equipment repair career ladder. A job inventory, administered to 808 job incumbents, consisted of a background information section and a duty-task list designed to assess the relative amount of time spent on tasks performed in current jobs. The resulting…

The study of task identification in institutional and household maintenance presents statistical correlations of task frequencies obtained by questionnaire in 10 task clusters for the occupations of executive housekeeper, supervising housekeeper, housekeeping director, custodian, homemaker/home health aide, hotel/motel housekeeping aide, nursing…

The set of six units is designed for use with an instructor in basic technical drafting and is also keyed to other texts. Each unit contains several task packages specifying prerequisites, rationale for learning, objectives, learning activities to be supervised by the instructor, and learning practice. The units cover: pictorial drawing; screw…

The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the typewriter servicing occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Three duties are broken down into a…

An approach to skills analysis is described in which strategy and processing skills sufficient for task performance are represented as an information-processing routine. Each step in the routine is viewed as a utilization of a processing mechanism or primary process. Definitions of these processes represent hypotheses about the psychological…

For those who have not had the opportunity to develop the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to qualify for technical and professional positions, training programs and job restructuring can mean the beginning of a career with a chance for upward mobility in salary and responsibility. Steps in job restructuring are: (1) determine the…

The Quo Vadis School of Nursing, established in 1964, offers a two year program which prepares candidates to qualify as Registered Nurses; the unique feature of the school is that it accepts only mature students--between 30 and 50 years of age. The research program of the School was intended as a 10-year study with special emphasis on this unique…

Health care is a social as well as a scientific process, and changes in health care delivery necessitate changes in preparation. Four types of changes, with their implications, are: graph or curve-extension change (past history and present observable fact--health manpower has become the greatest growth area in modern American employment);…

The nutritional status of Kindergarten children has been studied in relation to performance in behavioral tests and the effects of several types of nutritional intervention in nutrition and behavior have been evaluated. In a study in 1969-70, children who received breakfast and lunch at school showed significant improvement in hemoglobin…

The Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM) were administered to groups of approximately 15 to 25 (for a total of 174) special class, educable mentally retarded Negro or white students, 5 1/2 to 10 1/2 years of age from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds to determine whether individual or group training with learning potential procedure was more…

This publication, the first of two volumes, describes the cognitive, psychomotor, and socioemotional measures used in all years of the Head Start Planned Variation Evaluation. Part I discusses generally the issues involved in evaluating the quality of the data, and summarizes findings. Part II contains technical reports on 12 of the individual…

This book was designed to serve as a guide for the small and medium-sized firm establishing a systematic training pattern for the first time, and to the larger company for whom it will act as a useful check list. The guide examines the kind of information required and the ways in which actual companies have arrived at their training requirements…