Volume 13 of T and D Abstracts, a continuation of CIRF Abstracts, contains 18 abstracts of documents published in Belgium, England, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, West Germany, and the United States, dealing with trends in national training policies and in personnel development in public and private enterprise. The abstracts are divided into the…

This report is composed of a series of abstracts describing innovative/exemplary activities in industrial education in Michigan. The activities included (1) projects which invent a creative solution to a problem; (2) projects which demonstrate an exemplary program suitable for widespread use or a model to emulate; and (3) adoption of an exemplary…

In this report of a project to research existing industrial training of basic skills are provided an overview of the project and examination of four aspects associated with training. Part 1 is a detailed account of the search procedure that located and reviewed literature on basic skills training industry. A bibliography of the sources found in…

This document synthesizes information on the training of trainers of young people in Ireland. The report looks at the situation in Ireland in relation to career patterns, mobility in and between various types of trainers (those in companies, in training organizations, and in the vocational education system), as well as the provision of inservice…

This report is intended to provide instructors and designers concerned with training for the National Guard and Army Reserve (the Reserve Component--RC) with a practical review of research findings on the successful implementation of computer-mediated communication (CMC) for distance education and a reference guide to international resources and…

This document synthesizes information on the training of trainers of young people in the United Kingdom. The report looks at the situation in the United Kingdom in relation to career patterns, mobility in and between various types of training situations (in companies, in training organizations, and in the vocational education system), as well as…

To expand the use of women in nontraditional industrial careers, the U.S. Air Force examined the questions of recruiting, selecting, and training women for traditionally male blue collar work. An extensive review of the literature revealed that little empirical data on the effectiveness of various administrative policies had been collected. The…

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…

The reports and journal articles cited in this annotated bibliography were found through computer-assisted searches of Abstracts of Instructional and Research Materials in Vocational and Technical Education (AIM/ARM), Resources in Education (RIE), Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)…

This report provides a summary of findings from research into work-related education and training undertaken over the last five years by organizations then called the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) and Quality and Performance Improvement Dissemination (QPID) Unit of the Department for Education and Employment. Cross-references to…