Providence Assessment Center screens and trains employees for a computer assembly firm in Boston. The progress of all trainees is tracked and those not showing the proper progress are moved to less demanding programs. By the twelfth repetition trainees must be able to complete the assembly task in 11 hour or less. Susan Sweaney has just spent 55 hours on the fourthfourth unit and 33 hours completing her eightheighth unit, while another trainee, Julie Burgmeier, took 44 hours on the thirdthird