Presents three different approaches to detailing instructional design tasks which can be used individually or in combination to help plan, monitor, or evaluate an ID project: (1) list basic tasks using a task analysis procedure, (2) add time dimension, and (3) use a network to show interrelationships among tasks. (VT)

Studied the tasks performed by chief executives of public residential facilities for mentally retarded persons in their day-to-day jobs. Superintendents (N=28) completed questionnaires to rate task frequency and task importance. Results showed maintaining liaison with state department and consulting with key staff to be the most important and…

The authors review recreation/leisure training programs conducted with moderately/severely disabled individuals. Emphasis is placed on databased task-analytic, instructional efforts and recent curriculum volumes/position papers. Programing implications include the value of task sequences involving gradual increments in response requirements.…

Conducted a task analysis to determine the extent to which six jobs from a single classification in one organization were similar in their task composition. Results showed five were significantly different, and suggested that selection options would be affected and differing training and evaluation procedures should be used. (JAC)

In this follow-up study, it was found that cooperation could be developed when rewards for cooperating were greater than for performing individual tasks and when subjects could discriminate between task alternatives and relative rewards. For reprints, write to the Experimental Education Unit, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, Univ.…

Considering content, task-execution and subject variables in metacognitive and cognitive performance, analogies with integral or separable attributes were solved by selected undergraduate students with training in one of three task strategies or no strategy training. Training success, subject awareness of variables, score correlations, and…

The objective of this study was to describe machine transcription in measurable terms for volume of keyboarding, materials handling, error correction, referencing activities, unit operation, and proofreading tasks. Descriptive statistics from the observation of 23 word processor operators are given. The observation device and its implications for…

Presents an overview of Pascual-Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators and discusses its implications for issues in developmental psychology. The author concludes that the theory may resolve several anomalies in cognitive- developmental and learning theory approaches to development. One potential problem, the objectivity of task analysis, is…

Discusses ways to devise training methods to improve students' learning abilities, specifically in rote recall, evaluation of the learning task, summarization, and learning from the text. (EF)

Addresses the problems of conducting predevelopment analyses in the military from a training developer's point of view, and discusses issues related to the basic questions of analysis and the rationale and method for performing it. (JEG)

Presents a four-step model for learning task analysis that is based on empirical and theoretical footings: (1) identification of instructional goals/tasks, (2) specification of behavioral contributors, (3) classification of contributors into learning domains, and (4) application of varying analytical procedures to tasks in each domain. (Author)

Presents a study in which German-English bilinguals decided whether a visually presented word, either German or English, referred to an animate or to an inanimate entity. Bilinguals were slower to respond on a language switch trial than on language non-switch trials but only if they had to make the same response as on the prior trial. (Author/VWL)

Investigated the effect of phrase structure priming on sentence production latencies. Demonstrated the priming effects to be short lived. This finding contrasts with more persistent effects recently demonstrated in off-line picture description tasks. (Author/VWL)