Discusses performance analysis factors and their applications, including (1) three types of performance aids--directories, ensamplers, and queries; (2) training and guidance, including a guide to the use of performance aids and descriptions of three kinds--stimulus, response, and reinforcement; and (3) performance analysis as a tool in training.…

Six experiments were reported which examine the young child's ability to compare included and nonincluded sets. Subjects were children from nursery and primary schools in Edinburgh. (Author/MP)

Analyses of tasks performed by secretaries in government or government-related agencies in the Washington, D.C., area were made from data collected by interviews on the job. Data include position, title, tenure, previous experience, rating, salary, training, and tasks performed. Implications of the findings will be considered for two- and…

Presented is a summary of the work done by R. Waugh in analyzing the teaching and/or improvement of reading comprehension among learning disabled junior and senior high students. (DLS)

Research on classroom behaviors of students and teachers, which was conducted at Massey University in New Zealand, is reviewed. (GW)

Introductory physics students were taught the skill of acquiring the abilities to apply quantitative relations in problem solving, from a text description of those relations. This enhanced the students' capacities for acquiring this ability from a subsequently presented text description of new relations. (BW)

Describes a task analysis procedure used by a fourth grade teacher to help her students become more aware of time wasted. (SB)

The author describes the use of the task analysis approach in health education curriculum development and describes several instruments developed for this purpose. (MB)

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Six severely handicapped clients were taught to perform upkeep responses on their air conditioner-heating unit, electric range, refrigerator, and electrical appliances. Results showed acquisition, long-term maintenance, and generalization of upkeep skills to a nontraining apartment. General task analyses were recommended for assessment and…

The paper describes the development of a coin-skills curriculum for educable mentally retarded (EMR) children via the application of cluster analysis. Special emphasis is given to two clustering techniques employed to verify clusters of coin skills, and the sequence in which a group of 100 EMR children acquired selected coin skills. (Author/CL)

Examines the effects of communication distortion on the task perceptions of subordinates working in goal-setting programs. Concludes that (1) effective superiors who communicate openly, supportively, and with little distortion are better able to clarify their subordinates' work environment, and (2) distortion negates a goal-setting program. (PD)

Reducing Aldrich's codification of organizational task environments from six to three dimensions--munificence (capacity), complexity (homogeneity-heterogeneity, concentration-dispersion), and dynamism (stability-instability, turbulence), the authors use interim and factor analytical techniques to explore each dimension's viability and draw…

Within the large range of potential theoretical perspectives on fractions, this paper considers one particular interpretation: fractions' duality as process and object. By considering the number-fractionbar-number composite symbol as simultaneously representing division and rational, some process-object theories imply that fraction-as-process and…

To prepare instructional materials for training specialized accounting clerks, teachers must visit offices and make task analyses of these jobs utilizing the systems approach. Described are models developed for training these types of accounting clerks: computer control clerks, coupon clerks, internal auditing clerks, and statement clerks. (SC)