Corporate and educational settings increasingly require decision making, problem solving and other complex cognitive skills to handle ill-structured, or heuristic, tasks, but the growing need for heuristic task expertise has outpaced the refinement of task analysis methods for heuristic expertise. The Heuristic Task Analysis (HTA) Method was…

The meaning versus form (or fluency versus accuracy) debate is no longer a discriminating factor among teaching approaches because meaning and form are assumed to be essential for learning. A successful pedagogical task accomplishes two things: (1) focuses students' attention on the structure of the language by demonstrating that language form…

A model is described for developing instructional programs in teacher education that is based on an analysis of the system of teacher education. (Author)

Article proposes a specific technique, the use of simple index cards, which have been called Lippert Cards, to facilitate the process of analysis and synthesis in instructional design. (Author)

Describes a post-secondary program in which learning is stressed instead of teaching, the role of the instructor is to assess, diagnose, prescribe and tutor, and programs are individualized in the fields of business, technology, and applied arts. (MU)

Analyzes the process of comprehension, distinguishing between comprehension and several related skills, and defining comprehension as the ability to identify the intended effects of a piece of writing and to explain what causes exist within the piece which produces these effects. (MD)

Reorganizes and simplifies occupational requirements and characteristics with which counselors and clients must cope in planning. (Author)

A paper presented at annual Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of English (8th, Des Moines, Iowa, April 1970). (Editor)

Empirical data obtained from an exploratory study of the task-oriented information-processing behavior of information specialists were analyzed in seeking to identify useful predictors of job performance. Implications of the study relative to selection, training, and supervision are discussed, and suggestions for further research are indicated.…

"This paper consists of three sections--(a) the relation of theoretical analyses of learning to curriculum design, (b) the role of information-processing models in analyses of learning processes, and (c) selected examples of the application of information-processing models to curriculum design problems." (Author)

Characteristics of the librarian-patron information retrieval interview including group size, interview goals, role definition, interpersonal influence, and duration are discussed within the context of task group analysis. Eight references are cited. (EJS)

Preskill workshops and work activity classes and centers have been developed to teach the severely or profoundly retarded client how to assemble or complete a number of tasks and how to exhibit appropriate behaviors that result in a high degree of attention to task and acceptable levels of task production. (SB)