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Willett, Terrence – 2001
This study addresses the validation of a holistic English assessment process used at Cabrillo College (California). The process of prompt development, scoring rubrics, reader training, scoring, and administration procedures have remained largely unchanged over the years. This report provides new evidence on content validity, consequential and cut…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Analysis, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Allemandy, Kenneth B. – Training Officer, 1973
This is the first half of a dissertation about a method of predicting the learning time required for tasks consisting of manual skills and is mainly concerned with the fields of production, production planning, and operator training. The article will be continued in the December issue. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Learning Theories, Motor Development, Prediction
Osborn, William C. – Training in Business and Industry, 1974
A chart of the major action points in the course of developing tests for training evaluation and for qualifying trainees provides a framework for discussing the problems and practices of test development. Performance standards are the most common sources of trouble; the test developer must have unequivocal standards to work from. (AJ)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Performance Tests
Jones, Alan – Training Officer, 1972
Article attempts to show that the relationship between testing and the rest of the training function is a dynamic one. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Industrial Training, Institutes (Training Programs), Job Skills, Occupational Tests
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McNinch, George – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Suggests that preinstructional evaluation in the areas of mental age, auditory memory, letter names, and the use of context-auditory clues would aid in making predictive, diagnostic judgments as to later reading achievement. (VJ)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Context Clues
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Lacefield, Warren E. – Journal of Allied Health, 1981
This study replicates and extends previous research on skill domains by focusing exclusively on education in the allied health professions. Barriers to the achievement of affective educational goals are identified. (CT)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Heffernan, Thomas; Richards, C. Steven – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1981
Evaluated naturally occurring methods for self-controlling poor study behavior. Successful and unsuccessful subjects were interviewed and observed. The successful methods were evaluated in a controlled treatment study. The self-control techniques identified in the earlier steps received some further support in the last step. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Higher Education
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Townsend, Christina; Devereux, Christopher – Educational Analysis, 1981
Argues that schools should aim to develop generic skills which are not locked into very restricted occupational areas but nonetheless are explicitly related to the skills required in local labor markets. (CT)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Labor Market
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Walsh, R. Patricia; Connor, Catherine L. – Journal of Gerontology, 1979
Male and female undergraduates evaluated an essay attributed to one of the following authors: a 25-year-old male, a 25-year-old female, a 64-year-old male, or a 64-year-old female. Results suggest that young females and old males may be the targets of subtle prejudice which causes their work to be assessed unobjectively. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bias, College Students, Older Adults
Smoll, Frank L.; And Others – Research Quarterly, 1976
Tests indicate that providing sufficient opportunities for involvement in physical activities is influential in promoting and maintaining positive attitudes toward development of motor skills in children. (JD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Motivation, Participation, Performance Factors
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Mioduser, David; And Others – Computers in Human Behavior, 1996
Presents a framework characterizing cognitive models generated by sixth-grade students for simple opening/closing control mechanisms, like the elevator door. The students' conceptions, missing conceptions, and misconceptions are analyzed at three levels: device knowledge; perception of the control process; and perceptions of information flow. (LAM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, Grade 6, Information Transfer
Lohman, Margaret C. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1997
Investigates the effects of an inductive versus a deductive instructional approach on the constructive feedback and problem- solving skills of supervisors. Assesses 16 supervisors' acquisition and transfer of skill in giving instructional feedback, problem- solving skill, facilitator of subordinate problem-solving skill, and attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications, Feedback, Instructional Design
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Knudson, Ruth E. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1992
Researchers examined the effect of writing in response to simple and complex pictures on students' narrative writing. Findings indicated that fourth graders use different composing behavior and produce different written products than do sixth graders, writing more coherently/cohesively for complex than for simple tasks. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Difficulty Level
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Mayer, Richard E. – Instructional Science, 1998
Examines the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational skills in problem solving. Cognitive skills include instructional objectives, components in a learning hierarchy, and information-processing components. Metacognitive skills include strategies for reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics. Motivational skills include motivation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
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McKnight, Cliff; Price, Sheila – Journal of Documentation, 1999
Describes research regarding British authors' experience, attitudes, and perceptions of publishing in paper and in electronic journals. Questionnaires addressed current skills in information technology, peer review, and use of multimedia, and it is suggested that authors be involved in future research and debate on electronic serial publishing.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Authors, Electronic Journals, Foreign Countries
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