A summary of SOCIOfutures, TECHNOfutures, and BIOfutures provides survival criteria for the school principal, e.g., intelligence, group skills, scholarship, mature judgement, good health, and personal security. Also listed are eight professional survival skills: human relations, communications, community relations, administrative technical,…

It is important that teachers test not only knowledge, but also comprehension, application, synthesis, and evaluation. Several suggestions for test items in physical education are presented. (CJ)

A large sample of 11-year-olds were observed on a perceptual maze task. Three ability level groups were formed and compared as to overall response paths and specific binary decision configurations. Explanations for observed qualitative differences and discussion of the viability of the experimental approach adopted are presented. (Author/RD)

Compared performance of high- and low-education adults on traditional and meaningful space and reasoning measures. Separate analyses of variance for reasoning and space revealed main effects for education and age on both abilities. Results indicated highly educated older people performed more like their younger peers. (Author/JAC)

Examined the validity of an instrument designed to assess trainees' Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) skills. Results show graduate clinical psychology students with advanced MMPI expertise more accurately described a patient based on his MMPI than did undergraduates. A second experiment documented this sensitivity to changes in…

Life/work planning can be an individualized process for self-analysis, decision, and action. It uses the same approach for any experience desired, by considering an individual's skills, goals, and values and by combining work, learning, and adventure. (MSE)

Discusses the performance of a sprinting swimmer in biomechanical terms, and presents a theoretical model to evaluate the mechanical work and power of a swimmer. (SK)

Understanding the audiences, roles, skills, and responsibilities are essential to success in this multifaceted and complex profession of career planning and placement. Although no special academic or experiential background is required to enter the career services profession, specific knowledge in the areas of counseling, career planning, and job…

The skills laboratory at Adelphi University employs a checklist as a tool to standardize rating of skills performance and provides for upperclass honor students to instruct students in need of improving their sports skills. (JMF)

Discusses supervisory skills that factory personnel believe are important for leading and improving employee performance in complex manufacturing environments. Highlights include a historical perspective; manufacturing technologies; results of Pareto analysis, comparative analysis, and analysis of variance; and a Taxonomy of Supervisory Skills.…

Compares the Intermediate Ear to Hand Test melodic-imitation and tone-quality scores between students who played their teacher's major instrument and students who played a different instrument. Finds statistically significant higher scores on overall performance quality among students who played their teacher's instrument than among the other…

Assigned middle school and high school instrumentalists to listen and rate twelve performances: four without accompaniment, four with CD accompaniment, and four with piano accompaniment. Reports that CD accompaniment rated highest and piano the lowest. States that students consistently assigned the best feature and the aspect needing most practice…

Discusses the institutional inventory completed at Schoolcraft College (Michigan), which focused on how to learn or teach necessary skills, the skills that are important for success, and the best way to assess skills necessary for competency. Reports that most stakeholders agreed on the skills that are important for success, but they held various…

The relationship between job skills and specific tasks is difficult to analyze, since any one task may require multiple skills. In this study, a sequence of statistical evaluations was conducted to examine the reliability of a subject matter expert panel's association of tasks and job skills and the factor structure of the task by job skill…

A survey instrument for determining the competence that educational interpreters are perceived to need in 3 areas (skill, knowledge, attitude) was administered to 71 participants from the Alabama Registry of Interpreters for the deaf, students completing a training program, and classroom teachers who use interpreters. Differences among the groups…