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Gasek, George – 1976
Successful management of the elderly patient is related in part to how effectively he and members of the health care team can communicate with each other. If comprehension and/or expressive abilities are impaired, as they frequently are in the geriatric population, then efficient patient management becomes difficult. Unfortunately, this difficulty…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication Skills, Comprehension, Evaluation
Rothstein, Anne L. – 1975
In order to understand learners and players in relation to environments typically found in sport, it is necessary to first understand the individual as an information processor who must sample information from the environment, interpret it, organize or select an appropriate motor response, and execute that response. One of the most difficult…
Descriptors: Athletics, Eye Hand Coordination, Object Manipulation, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Berliner, David C. – 1972
This paper describes a computer-based task analysis project which uses a pool of behavioral descriptors for defining the activities of a position holder in a particular situation. A selected sample of these descriptors, from a limited pool of descriptors, obtained from a convenience sample was analyzed. Clusters of descriptors with common…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Oriented Programs, Function Words, Skill Analysis
California State Dept. of Employment, Sacramento. – 1968
This study of skill transferability between missile production and nondefense industries provides the necessary data to help formulate retraining and other programs designed to help workers adjust to cutbacks in defense spending. This technical appendix to the project report contains the data upon which the report's conclusions are based. The…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Employment Projections, Job Analysis, Labor Needs
Carpenter, James B. – 1974
This study was designed to determine the relative impact of dichotomized task performance data compared to percent time-spent estimates for those members performing each task on the group job descriptions determined through application of the Comprehensive set of Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP). Using groups identified by a routine…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Databases
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Barrows, Howard S.; Tamblyn, Robyn M. – Journal of Medical Education, 1976
The self assessment technique described here allows a student to evaluate his own clinical skills without the need for a faculty observer. In use for over two years for medical and nursing students and residents in the area of neurology, it requires the services of a simulated patient, a videotape machine, and a secretary. (JT)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Higher Education, Medical Education
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Crombag, H. F. M.; And Others – Journal of Legal Education, 1975
Research on problem-solving, which has been conducted by experimental psychologists, is used to develop a working legal education program for helping law students learn to solve legal problems. (JT)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Higher Education, Lawyers, Legal Education
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White, Richard T.; Gagne, Robert M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
A correspondence exists between a simplified data collection method employing results from a post test for graphic skills in kinematics, and a rigourous validation method. Examination of test responses for discrepant instances yielded further information of value. Hierarchical patterns of learning and remembering are identical. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, High Schools
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Stevenson, Harold W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Assessment is made of the effectiveness of teachers' ratings and of a battery of cognitive and psychometric tasks in predicting achievement in reading and arithmetic in grades 1, 2, and 3. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Alavosius, Mark P.; Sulzer-Azaroff, Beth – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1986
Individual written and verbal performance feedback was examined to determine its influence on the safety with which physically disabled clients were transferred. Two client-transfer techniques were task analyzed and six direct service providers' on-the-job performance was measured weekly. Feedback was consistently followed by improvements in safe…
Descriptors: Attendants, Evaluation Criteria, Feedback, Job Training
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Klecan-Aker, Joan S.; Swank, Paul R. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1988
The study investigated the effectiveness of a pragmatic language function protocol with a sample of 240 normal preschool children, aged 2-5, in a structured setting. The protocol was shown to be used reliably and was sensitive to differences in the mastery of language skills of normal children of different ages. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Cotton, Eileen G.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1988
Notes that primary and intermediate grade teachers rely heavily on basal readers for instruction and offers the advantages of and guidelines for using a skill trace approach to tracking selected skills across the program, as an evaluation strategy.NH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Dudley-Marling, Curt – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1986
Reading and writing assessment which focuses on fragmented, isolated skills provides little information about how children actually read and write. An holistic alternative, the systematic observation of children's reading and writing behavior as they occur in natural settings, is discussed. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach, Learning Disabilities, Naturalistic Observation
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Chalip, Laurence; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1984
An important component of the value of sport is the experiences it provides. A group of adolescents were monitored to observe their reactions to organized sport, informal sport, and physical education class. Degrees of enjoyment and positive experience in these areas are discussed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Patterns, Physical Education, Secondary Education
Jiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to identify graduate students' predominant study skill strengths and weaknesses. Also examined was the relationship between specific study skills and library anxiety. Participants were 133 graduate students from a number of education disciplines at a university in the southeastern United States. These individuals were…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Library Skills
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