The complexity of the optimization algorithm for staff utilization in any medium to large organization can cause major problems in meeting schedules while still keeping all of the work force in full employment, working at a level appropriate to their experience, and also giving staff an opportunity to develop new skills and experiences that will…

An increase in the number of adult women in the paid work force, many of whom are returning to work after a period as homemaker and parent, appears to be one of the major social changes of the past decade. As part of the Project HAVE Skills program, which was designed to develop career counseling materials for reentry women, questionnaires…

In a study designed to analyze differences between job performance and level of experience, 27 nurses from three different employment levels (in training, experienced, and supervisory) were observed, interviewed, tested, and rated for job performance. An observation checklist recorded job behavior in terms of the type of activity observed, the…

Use of monitoring techniques at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center has revealed that young physicians have multiple defects in their interviewing and physical diagnosis skills: errors of technique, omission, detection, interpretation, and recording. Methods developed and utilized over the past three years to teach, monitor, correct and…

The article describes and illustrates the procedure for developing a job operation sheet for use in agricultural mechanics instruction; the sheet serves as an outline for a student-oriented programed type of learning device, taking the learner through the processes of accomplishing the job in a logical and efficient manner. (Author/AJ)

In a chart offered as an exploratory tool to help young people and their counselfors pair personal traits and educational qualifications with those usually associated with an occupation or group of occupations, 25 occupational characteristics and requirements are cross-matched with some 280 jobs. (Author/AJ)

A study was conducted in Minnesota to identify generic knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that are germane to all of the fields of vocational education--that all students will need for future roles in the family and work force. The research consisted of a review of the literature pertaining to generic skills needed for work and a validation…

This handbook is for persons, especially teachers, who collect, evaluate, and apply vocational assessment information for handicapped students in the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). The approach used is a developmental curriculum-based assessment process which responds to the career/vocational programming sequence through the…

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Mathematics Assessment (1982) data were analyzed using latent class models to determine patterns of distinct skills required by different exercises and to estimate the pattern distributions. The populations were 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old examinees. Skills were assumed to be intermediate between…

The effectiveness of three basic approaches to sport skills analysis instruction were examined. Ninety-two physical education majors were allocated to four groups and randomly assigned to one of four instructional frameworks: Observational Model (OM), Common Errors (CE), Correct Only (CO), and Control (C). It was hypothesized that the OM group…

The work involved in preparing writing skill specifications that could be used to determine bilingual students' entry into and exit from bilingual programs is described in this paper. The first section of the paper details the steps involved in identifying the critical writing skills required in grades one through six, while the second section…

Described is an approach (developed by the Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped) to resolving the following three performance based teacher education development issues: how to identify competencies; how to validate competencies; and how to assign competencies to modules. It is explained that competency lists must be acquired and…

There is ample evidence that bilinguals, even infant bilinguals, can translate naturally, i.e., without any special training for it. Yet when bilinguals apply for admission to the School of Translators at the University of Ottawa, most of them fail the entrance examination. The reasons are several: (1) Most natural translation is oral, not…

The purpose of this study was to develop a measurement technique for determining skill levels required for various occupations for use in training, counseling, job placement, and measuring labor force quality. Measures related to income and educational levels of workers were selected. It was assumed that higher earnings reflected a higher skill…