An organizing center, this 32-page publication points out, is not a "learning center" in the sense of having one area reserved for clay modeling or the construction of mobiles. It is, rather, more like the central thought of a story and is considered a method for planning activity-focused teaching units in which the teacher is the key to…

Techniques were developed for designing instruction for discipline-based curriculum areas. The approach integrated aspects of previous work in behavioral objectives, the structure of knowledge, learning hierarchies, and information-processing psychology and made explicit their relations to instructional design. Three kinds of analysis were…

This study is designed to develop a checklist of teacher competencies (TECOMP I) based on an analysis of teaching tasks in keeping with a cybernetic model, to secure and analyze critical responses to the checklist items, to relate these judgments to the characteristics of the several items, and to clarify issues regarding the construction and…

The standard covers nonsupervisory work involved in installation, test, repair, and maintenance of electric power plant and/or overhead and underground primary electrical distribution systems. These jobs require knowledge and application of electrical principles, procedures, materials, and safety standards governing work on electrical systems…

This paper presents several aspects of task analyses for maintenance jobs when these analyses are used as bases for the development of Job Performance Aids (JPAs) and job oriented training. It starts with a brief history of the development of task analysis technology and the part that Air Force research has played in this development. The fact…

The major focus of the study was the construction of an ideal role model for the paraprofessional youth worker who is a program assistant for the Extension Service and to test such a model with a limited number of youth agents and volunteers in North Carolina. Role theory provided the conceptual frame of reference. Program assistant, a new…

Phase I involves two questionnaire surveys aimed at identifying all academic library consortia in higher education and, within this univerise, providing a list of participating libraries and services. The major product of this phase is a "Directory of Academic Library Consortia." The descriptions of the individual tasks outlined in this Phase I…

A Business Task Force was appointed by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO with a specific mission of examining ways in which corporations, collegiate schools of business, and business organizations could most effectively encourage improvement of education, especially programs to prepare businessmen to assume new roles and responsibilities…

The research contained in this report is directed at the problem of assessing structures of knowledge in science. Toward this end graduate as well as undergraduate students were asked to make judgments of the perceived similarity of expressions that mark or label concepts in the subject matter of physics. An apriori model of the structure of…

This research reviewed the role and functions of the paraprofessional in the education process. The paraprofessional was defined as an individual who worked as part of an educational team, specifically complementing the instructional role of the teacher. Five general classifications of paraprofessionals were surveyed according to: (a) title; (b)…

Training programs for data processing personnel are plagued by the rapid turnover of the technology involved. An attempt was made to provide a self-paced training plan for a large, data processing staff. Factor analyses of questionnaires about the skills and tasks involved divided the population into specialization groups. Within the…

This report describes procedures used in developing a set of selection requirements and training objectives for operators of school buses. The selection requirements include collection and interpretation of personal history and other background information, physical examination covering vision, hearing, handicaps, and general health, written…

As a result of a commitment to research and develop a tested program evaluation system, one group within a task force decided to interview a cross section of Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) personnel. Twenty people were interviewed from top management down to field workers. Inquiries were made about the organization, about the…

This publication is the result of a detailed task analysis study of the ornamental horticulture industry in New York State. Nine types of horticulture businesses identified were: (1) retail florists, (2) farm and garden supply store, (3) landscape services, (4) greenhouse production, (5) nursery production, (6) turf production, (7) arborist…

The primary objective of this study was to test the validity of the American Library Association policy statement on Library Education and Manpower by applying it to the tasks described in Phase I of the Illinois Task Analysis Project. (Available as ED 040 723.) A Model was to be developed in which the tasks would be arranged in accordance with…