Over a four year period, the Continuation Education System Development Project will develop a practical instructional system capable of continuous identification and efficient response to the critical instructional needs of individual continuation high school students, or those who drop out or are pushed out, in La Puente, California. The purpose…

Over a four year period, the Continuation Education System Development Project will develop a practical instructional system capable of continuous identification and efficient response to the critical instructional needs of individual continuation high school students, or those who drop out or are pushed out, in La Puente, California. The first…

The purpose of this paper is to select from among the bodies of research on complex skill learning those generalizations that seem to have some applicability to issues in designing training materials for teacher education. That selection entails a review of the principal points and findings within the domain and of the implications of the findings…

This research has as its basic premise the belief that physical and mental skills are highly similar, enough so in fact that computation paradigms such as the ones used in Artificial Intelligence research about predominantly mental skills can be usefully extended to include physical skills. This thesis is pursued experimentally by the…

Information from job analysis can be used to establish training objectives, to identify skills needed for the job, and to design performance tests. Methods of job analysis to yield necessary information for the creation of effective training programs are outlined. (MF)

Outlines the major problems associated with the type of assessments envisioned by advocates of competency-based education, discusses attempts to solve these problems at the postsecondary level through development of the College Outcome Measures Project, and examines the general knowledge and skill domains upon which the project is based.…

Acquisition, discrimination, and review training were used to teach four severely retarded adolescents to tell time to the nearest 5-minute interval. All subjects acquired the target behavior, and three of four maintained appropriate responses after 8 weeks. Discrimination errors and the social relevance of the skill are discussed. (Author/JW)

Suggests use of instructional theory to generate criteria for evaluating microcomputer courseware and describes one approach to its use. This approach identifies skills that the three courseware types--drill and practice, tutorial, and simulation--can teach, and then selects the instructional theory that most specifically addresses the identified…

Investigated relationships between performance on a gender-neutral task and gender, self-efficacy, performance attributions, and task interest in 92 college students. Subjects decreased their ratings of self-efficacy and task interest as a result of failure. The same ratings increased as a result of success. Findings support self-efficacy theory.…

Presents results from surveys of health professions alumni (n=320) and hospital administrators (n=80) that revealed a perception of need for multicompetency regardless of hospital size or profession, particularly such combinations as medical technology/radiology technology, nursing/respiratory therapy, and physical therapy/occupational therapy.…

Discusses the need for a method to measure computer user abilities, and presents an instrument that identifies individuals' technical, modeling, and applications skills. An evaluation of the instrument in terms of validity and reliability is reported, and applications in user education research are suggested. (12 references) (CLB)

Two classes of third grade pupils in similar schools participated in this study. One class used a computer-based mathematical diagnosis program to analyze systematic errors. The teacher used this information to conduct error correction periods. The other class used a traditional approach without error correction periods. Results are presented.…

Sixteen pupils, aged four to six, with various disabilities requiring intervention services in motor skills acquisition, participated in a follow-up study. The study found that gross motor gains resulting from intensive intervention failed to continue once the intervention was withdrawn. Fine motor skills were not affected by the gross motor…

Tested infants in their second year with a box task to determine whether they would show a hand preference in solutions involving complete differentiation of roles for the two hands. (HOD)

Proposes an expanded definition of critical thinking and discusses its components. Includes an outline of goals and objectives for a critical thinking curriculum. (MCG)