This document contains 404 abstracts relating to pertinent aspects of staff development in adult education, and should be useful as a resource for adult educators, graduate students in adult education, staff development personnel, and decision makers at all levels of adult basic education staff development. Materials cited are those not easily…

Organized following the format of the International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education at Denver, Colorado (June 1976), this annotated bibliography presents over l60 resumes selected from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Intended as a resource for technical and vocational education planners and practitioners from…

This report presents 23 research abstracts that investigate the effects of feedback on job performance. A narrative that precedes the abstracts lists generalizations and conclusions that are representative of the studies presented in the report. It concludes that the studies reviewed confirm that feedback improves the performance of subordinates.…

Full abstracts of 232 documents on institutional and field service training for personnel in adult corrections are presented in this bibliography of items selected from the data base of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. The citations are divided into six sections: (1) Institutional Personnel Training--documents describing the…

This document is a compilation of articles, extracts of books or articles, and abstracts of material on performance based teacher education (PBTE). It is divided into four sections. The first section contains background material and provides definitions, rationales, and historical contexts for PBTE. The second section has material on program…

This bibliographic resource guide provides information on source, content and availability of project curricula and training materials developed for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program by CDA Pilot Projects and Head Start Supplementary Training/CDA programs. Materials cited reflect a variety of approaches to CDA training to meet the…

A composite group of publication abstracts of materials developed and written by the Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education (ICCE) is contained in this document. (ICEE is intended to facilitate the on-going efforts of Oregon's colleges and universities in preparing educational personnel for the development and conduct of career…

The annotated bibliography provides abstracts of 31 research reports, bibliographies, program reviews, taxonomies, and seminar proceedings, and of 16 journal articles, all published since 1963, dealing with educational personnel serving the vocational education needs of the educationally disadvantaged, the handicapped, and minorities. The cited…

The resource directory is a compilation of approximately 300 abstracts of materials produced or used exclusively by Bureau of Education for the Handicapped funded inservice training project staffs. Each abstract contains the following information: title, physical description, content summary, subject descriptors, suggestions for use, information…

This summary describes 162 research projects dealing with extension education that were conducted between 1980 and 1983. The abstracts are organized into nine broad categories: administration, agriculture, accountability and evaluation, community resource development, 4-H and youth, home economics, international education, personnel and staff…

The thirty-eight documents annotated here were selected through a multiple mechanical and manual literature search conducted to identify resources which have a specific relationship to the career development of employees in positions requiring less than baccalaureate degree qualifications. Several resources covering the general topic of career…

This resource guide contains descriptions of 47 projects and 13 professional growth activities conducted between 1982 and 1984 under the auspices of the Wisconsin Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (WBVTAE) Leadership Identification Program. Included among those projects described are efforts related to the following areas:…

Following a narrative introduction and list of project titles, the abstracts are arranged alphabetically by state within each of the following four sections that represent parts of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 under which funding was obtained: Part C, research (97 projects); Part D, demonstration (66 projects); Part I, curriculum…

This report outlines changes in training and education that have taken place in the 1960s and the first years of the 1970s in three countries of Eastern Europe--the German Democratic Republic, Poland, and the USSR. Compiled in the report is information from legal and assimilated texts, as well as from studies and reports, articles, and…

This annotated bibliography presents a listing of technical reports (1976) dealing with personnel and training research conducted by the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, an institution charged with the planning and execution of United States Air Force exploratory and advanced development programs for selection, motivation, training,…