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Kilo, Joseph L. – 1975
The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the diesel truck mechanic occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Thirteen duties are broken down into a…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Communication Skills, Diesel Engines, Job Analysis
Valeski, Tom – 1973
In an overview of a very comprehensive and current trend in personnel training, that of a "competency-based" format, it is apparent that there exists certain and specific aspects of what perhaps constitutes a "total" program in competency-based methodology. These aspects are competency identification, competency organization, competency analysis,…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Evaluation
McCleary, Lloyd E. – 1973
No group can claim professional standing without explicit statements about what constitutes competence in that field and the means by which competence can be attained and assessed. The definition of competencies is the beginning step in a total competency based program of administrative development. Such definition includes (1) specification of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Competence
Moulder, Brad; Abdulla, Abdulbaset; Morgan, Deanna L. – College Board, 2005
The College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP®) consists of a battery of 34 tests covering courses in which entering college students often enroll. CLEP exams are tools that help accredited colleges and universities provide course requirement exemptions to students who have gained outside-the-classroom knowledge of certain subjects. Students may…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Testing Programs, Prior Learning, Advanced Placement
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Reixach, Deborah – Guidance & Counselling, 1995
Discusses underestimation of women's skills as an issue of concern for all women and for socioeconomically disadvantaged women in particular. Factors contributing to underestimation are gender-biased expectations, socialization, gender-biased definitions of skills, discrimination, and low self-esteem. Presents interventions to increase skills…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
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Dearden, Richard; Dermoudy, Julian; Evans, Christine; Barmuta, Leon; Jones, Susan; Magierowski, Regina; Osborn, Jon; Sargison, Jane; Waters, David – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005
In 2004, the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology at the University of Tasmania undertook a project to evaluate students' information literacy skills and to get a picture of how and where information literacy is taught in the faculty. This paper outlines how relationship-building between the Science Library and faculty led to the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Information Literacy, Foreign Countries, Information Skills
Roberts, Darby M. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2005
This study examined the perception of skill level among new professionals, mid-managers and senior student affairs officers in NASPA Region III. The instrument contained 72 skill statements in 10 categories. Findings indicate there are differences between the groups for all categories except for technology. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Skill Development, Student Personnel Services, Skill Analysis
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Loogma, Krista – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
In this paper, the author analyses the different patterns of learning one can find in the organisations of two contrasting economic fields representing different contexts for learning. The analysis concentrates on two different occupational groups at the medium skills level: specialists in the IT sector and skilled workers in the timber and…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Education Work Relationship, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Polnick, Barbara; Edmonson, Stacey L. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2005
The National Policy Board of Educational Administration reflects the belief that principals should be taught processes for experimenting and learning from real world data to meet the challenges of the work environment. This study of practicing principals yielded a content analysis of 482 responses, which reflect the need for principals to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Content Analysis, Instructional Leadership
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Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2003
Background: Narrative assessment is sensitive to the communication impairments of children with specific language impairment and those with autistic spectrum disorders. Although both groups of children tend to show deficits in narrative, it is unclear whether these deficits are qualitatively different and how language and pragmatic ability may…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Check Lists, Picture Books, Language Aptitude
Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Baker, Eva L.; Brill, David G.; Sinha, Ravi; Saadat, Farzad; Bewley, William L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
A critical first step in developing training systems is gathering quality information about a trainee's competency in a skill or knowledge domain. Such information includes an estimate of what the trainee knows prior to training, how much has been learned from training, how well the trainee may perform in future task situations, and whether to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Skill Analysis, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
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Carroll, James B.; Morrell, Patricia D. – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2006
Technology skills and attitudes were compared between 51 school of education faculty members and 378 student teachers in teacher education programs in six Northwest liberal arts colleges. Few significant differences were found between the groups. In general, faculty members had higher levels of knowledge of a greater number of technology-based…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Knowledge Level, Educational Technology, Liberal Arts
Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund, Pomfret Center, CT. – 1997
This document identifies skill standards for lead abatement in a manner that is easy to understand, useful, and meaningful to workers, educators, trainers, labor leaders, contractors, and project owners. To meet the needs of the various users of this document who will have a different application of the standards and seek different information,…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Environmental Standards, Hazardous Materials, Job Skills
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 1992
A set of prototype measures has been developed to measure students' understanding of content areas. Although the starting point has been history, the project has explored the use of a common model for assessment in geography and science as well. These prototypes are intended to provide models for users with assessment requirements who do not have…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests
Darrah, Charles N. – 1992
The "rhetoric of skill requirements" is a way of describing work by decomposing the human contribution into distinct components. Three important characteristics of this rhetoric are especially germane to an understanding of work. The first characteristic is that jobs and their incumbents can be fully analyzed by breaking them down into skills.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Competence, Employment
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