This project was designed to collect information on the types of skills common to the appliance repair, refrigeration, and air conditioning service areas. A single task inventory was constructed from available course materials, revised by consultants, and administered to a random sample of 30 incumbent workers in each of the two service areas in…

The author examines the role of territorial rights in the work of the pupil personnel worker. He concludes that the effective pupil personnel worker must be aware of others' boundaries, adjust to his/her own lack of territory and be able to resolve conflicts between workers about territorial rights. (EJT)

Comments on a recent article by DeLuca on electronic "measurement of logical thinking" questioning four aspects of the article. DeLuca responds to the criticism on those four aspects in question. (GA)

A sample of 576 clerical workers completed occupational inventory booklets showing tasks performed and the time spent performing them. In addition, clerical workers, supervisors, and business teachers rated the learning difficulty of each task. The catalog of performance objectives prepared from the data can be used to develop career-relevant…

College students learned implicitly the underlying structure of an artificial language by memorizing a set of representative examples. The form and structure of their knowledge was evaluated and analyzed by: (1) solving anagrams; (2) determining well-formedness of novel letter strings; and (3) providing detailed introspective reports. (Author/MV)

The article presents eight lessons for teaching practical signs to deaf-blind individuals. (CL)

Creativity, intelligence, and problem-solving tasks that varied in the explicitness of problem definition and in the format for an acceptable solution were administered to 100 college students. Two hypotheses that distinguished between concepts of creative and intelligent problem-solving were presented, and syntactical and strategic distinctions…

Presents a study of decalage between object permanence and person permanence. Decalage was influenced by environmental as well as stimulus factors with infants tested between 6- and 81/4-months/of-age. (BD)

Presents a study of age differences in memory organization during repeated recall tasks. Second and sixth grade children served as subjects. (BD)

Creativity is seen as a problem-solving process including problem recognition and definition, generation and teaching of alternative possible solutions, and selection of the best solution. Using this process as a task analysis for designing instruction in creativity, types of tasks are analyzed. The use of functional completion criteria is…

Four severely retarded females participated in a group instruction program involving designated trainer roles and both individual-directed and total group-directed procedures. Participants acquired the skills of stamping addresses on envelopes, successfully generalized the skill across an untrained type of envelope, and maintained the skill over…

The study examines the writing of college freshmen on expository, argumentative, and speculative tasks by means of the Crediton cognitive model in order to describe how and why they evoke the range of responses they do, and why particular cognitive strategies are drawn on. Conclusions are presented and discussed. (Author/CT)

Hierarchical task analysis (HTA), which requires description of a task in terms of a hierarchy of operations and plans, is reviewed and examined as a basis for making training decisions. Benefits of HTA in terms of economy of analysis and as a means of accounting for complex performance are outlined. (Author/MBR)

Effects of training identical tasks using three different degrees of task-analysis specificity were assessed with 21 mildly, moderately, and severely mentally retarded adults. Short task analysis resulted in most errors, but training time did not differ. Severely retarded Ss made the most errors in short task analysis. (Author/CL)