The purpose of this study was to determine the actual tasks performed as compared to those tasks perceived as important by a selected population of postsecondary vocational-technical teachers in 40 public Texas community colleges. Prior to actual research methodology, the state-of-the-art of vocational teacher education, the competency-based…

Research by the Occupational and Manpower Research Division of the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory has established that task training priority is a function of task factors and that, within a specialty, training priority ratings can be duplicated mathematically from task factor ratings. Because these ratings are measured on a different scale…

Prepared to assist the distributive education work coordinator in using the Standard Training Plan (STP) for the cooperative program work assignments of students, this manual describes the development of the STP, provides instructions for its use, and discusses some specific problem areas. The author takes the approach that what is needed is a…

This study sought to compare the relative values of the structured and unstructured approaches to the work experience portion of cooperative education programs with the additional objective of preparing guidelines for developing the structure of a work experience. A total of 32 students, 16 experimental and 16 control, from four Texas Community…

For the purpose of developing a diagnostic and prescriptive program for children with learning problems in mathematics, task analysis is employed to develop a hierarchy of skills which identifies a terminal task and prerequisite skills. (Author/DB)

Task analytic assessment provides a method which classroom teachers and other community service agents can utilize to assess the level of functioning of severely retarded individuals. (Author)

The author presents a manual notation system for addition and subtraction which promotes achievement and conceptual skills with the primary educable mentally retarded. (Author)

An analysis of job reading requirements indicates that most job reading is reading-to-do, while job training programs require reading-to-learn tasks also. (MKM)

Three exercises and four table games were taught through task analysis and data-based instruction to severely mentally retarded and multiply handicapped adolescents and adults. (CL)

The author discusses Professor Henry A. Bent's presentation regarding the nature of the difficulty that many college and university students have with arithmetic reasoning involving division. (HM)

College students learned artificial grammar under two conditions: paired associate learning (PA), and observation of exemplars (OBS). OBS induced abstract representation of the rules of grammar. PA produced very different learning--subjects knew some whole items but detected little structure. Grammar was learned largely by analogy rather than…

Three forms of a symbol-digit substitution task were administered to 62 female and 96 male college students. Results support the theory that the superior performance of women over men on the Digit-Symbol Substituion subtest of the Wechsler scales is due to their greater ability to encode symbols verbally. (Author/JAC)

An evaluation performance program specifically oriented toward such administrative actions as tenure, promotion, and salary adjustment is described. It uses task analysis to clarify the nature of the desired evaluative content and peer review as the primary evaluative mechanism. Its use in a psychology department is discussed. (Author/LBH)