Performance Books

Do you conduct training in the workplace? Do you measure the training's effectiveness using testing? Do you design certication exams? If so, this is the book for you!

Criterion-Referenced Tests (CRTs), unlike the similarly complicated sounding Norm-Referenced Tests (NRTs), are used to measure individual competencies in skills or knowledge objectives. That is, they're used to determine whether a person "makes the cut" or doesn't. Individual's are not ranked against each other in a CRT exam, and there is no limit to the number of individuals who can succeed or fail. This type of exam is particularly well-suited to measure the learning (at Kirkpatrick's Level II) that took place during training.

All of this is eplored in a straightfoward manner as you are stepped through the entire process of designing competancy exams, including the statistics you need with plenty of examples.

We used to pay lip-service to seeing what our trainees had learned in our professional classes - now we quantify it precisely using this text.

"The issue of how athletes can be assessed as a basis for performance management and enhancement is a crucial one for contemporary sport psychology. More basically, assessment for performance management and enhancement in sport is an area where cogent theory, practical concepts, effective methods, and technically defensible measurement procedures are needed. Roland Carlstedt's seminal work provides valuable information that helps fill these gaps. Based on a solid theoretical model of critical moments during competition, coupled with a clear and internally consistent conceptual and operational framework, and using persuasive empirical research from psychology and other areas, including results of his award winning dissertation, Dr. Carlstedt demonstrates substantial relationships between psychological characteristics and performance outcomes in a range of athletes. His work provides guidance for sport psychology researchers and practitioners as well as others involved in human performance at all levels. "The material in this book can help shape the larger knowledge base of sport psychology for years to come."

--Charles A. Maher, Psy.D. Professor of Psychology Rutgers University, Sport Psychologist, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Browns



Why do some professional athletes tend to "deliver" in critical situations, while others are less dependable? Dr. Carlstedt's Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance focuses on this well known and vexing performance difference between comparably talented highly-skilled athletes. He traces these differences to certain basic personality characteristics and their interplay. Depending on their strength and configuration, these general personal propensities may play either a facilitative or counterproductive (but potentially modifiable) role. Carlstedt's model is obviously of great relevance to Sport Psychologists. Because of its plausibility as well as its amenability to empirical scrutiny and continuing development, it also merits the attention of a wider readership. It has the potential for evolving into a general model for understanding consistent excellence in response to challenge.

--Auke Tellegen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Personality Psychologist and Behavioral Geneticist



Methodologically rigorous in its approach , Dr. Carlstedt offers a thoroughly innovative perspective on the field of Sport Psychology in this new book. His model of peak performance ambitiously and successfully integrates a wealth of physiological, psychological, and cognitive neuroscience data to forcefully make the case that athletic performance can not only be studied in a controlled fashion, but can be improved systematically. Although scholarly in its methodologies, this book is highly readable, and will be of interest to a wide range of academics, coaches, athletes and mental health and Sport Psychology professionals.

Sanjay Mathew, M.D. Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry (former ranked tennis player)

In this pamphlet Dave Hudgens, former hitting instructor for the Oakland A's, outlines four of the most important attributes of a crunch time player:
Mental Toughness,
Concentration,
Responsibility
and Goal Setting.

A short chapter also outlines the "Hitters Success Chain" routine.

TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SING WITH A BIG AND RESONANT VOICE...AS THE OLD SINGERS DID.....THIS BOOK AND MARAFIOTI DEALS WITH THE BASIC ON SINGING.....TO SPEAK...BUT DO NOT MISUNDERSTANDME PLEASE....."TO SPEAK" MEANS TO SPEAK....NOT OUR DAIRY LAZY WAY OF SPEAKING....
.....I WAS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO MY LITTLE AND SMALL DOG......THEN SUDDENTLY...IT STARS BARKING....AND MAN WHAT A SOUND FOR A SMALL AND THINY DOG.....I AM BIGGER FATTER...WITH BIGGER HEAD, CHEST, MOUTH AND SO ON.......BUT MY SOUND IS NOT AS BIG AND CLEAR AS IT WAS HIS.....HE DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT REGISTERS, RESONANCE, DIAPHRAGM, SUPPORT NEITHER ABOUT OPEN THROAT...BUT IT OPENS HIS MOUTH BIG.....AND WHAT A BIG SOUND IT MAKES.....IF I COULD TAKE THAT...AND SCALE IT TO MY SIZE.....WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY HAPPEND?....ONE THING IS FOR SURE...IT WOULD BE A BIG AND LOUDER SOUND....COULD WE LEARN TO SPEAK AND PRONUNCE...WITH THAT BIG INTENSITY...AS THE DOG BARKING.....READ THOSE BOOKS

This was sent to me by Jane Highsmith, a friend from undergraduate days:
"Seldom have I enjoyed reading someone's doctoral dissertaion, but Daddy Sang Lead was different. It was not only well researched and written, but the personal stories and pictures of Southern Gospel groups seemed to prompt me to have a new interest in this unique style of singing. It is my understanding that this is the first research document of its kind. It will definitely be an asset to the South's history. Thank you Dr. Brobston for making such a treatise available."
Used by permission of Jane Highsmith, GA.

This book offers a fantastic introduction to Nobel Prize Winner Dario Fo's theatre, cultural context and roots. It's essays discuss his performance, his writing and the wonderfully controversial and comical elements of Fo's unique theatre. The essays are by Fo specialists all over the world and they are excellently introduced by the editors (Farell and Scuderi), both eminent Fo specialists themselves. "Stage, Text and Tradition" is a very clear, concise and illuminating presentation of one of the greatest actors/performers/authors of own time. If you are in to theatre and life, I strongly recommend this book!

This book guides you throught the installation and use of a data logging system. I have read it 3 times and each time, as you get more comfortable with the data, you get more and more out of it. It's written in an easy to understand manner, and is the best book I have found to get a racer started in data logger knowledge and understanding.

Chapter1: Statistics Collection (and monitors)
Chapter2: Mainframe Blocking and Buffering
Chapter3: PC Files and Buffers
Chapter4: DB2 System Tuning
Chapter5: Logical Database Design
Chapter6: Microsoft SQL 6.5 Tuning
Chapter7: Oracle 7.3 & 8.0 Tuning
Chapter8: Windows NT 4.0 Tuning
Chapter9: Windows 95 Tuning
Chapter10: PC & Client/Server Program Coding
Chapter11: Sybase 11 Tuning
Chapter12: Mainframe Coding
Chapter13: Mainframe Sorts
Chapter14: CA-IDMS 12 & 14 Tuning
Chapter15: Mainframe Multi-Level Caching
Chapter16: PC & Client/Server Caching
Chapter17: Communications and Networking
Chapter18: Advanced Topics

The advanced chapter is really hot. It covers new technology and techniques which are right on the edge. It completely covers major databases like Oracle Sybase and MS SQL, more so, than other tuning books out. aware of.

My child's piano teacher uses this book in conjunction with the Piano Student book by the same authors. These two books seem to work very well together. My child really enjoys this book, as it has interesting tunes that she can play even though she is just beginning to learn how to play the piano.

I haven't been able to buy this book, but I have read it. It is very good, and doesn't just talk about the play, about half the essays are significantly focused on the movie version of Glengarry Glen Ross, and there are a few that are completely focused on it. I believe one even makes a case that the movie is better than the play (which I agree with). A great book if you are interested in Mamet's work of genius!