Compares three strategies of early intervention designed to increase the language and communication skills of disadvantaged 3-year-old Mexican-American children. (WY)

Graduates of compensatory early childhood programs in Knox County, Kentucky demonstrated few differences when compared with matched subjects in first grade. (WY)

In this revised version of paper at National Conference on Higher Education, March 1970, writer stresses the need to incorporate into PhD. training a knowledge about and respect for effective undergraduate teaching, and suggests a new Doctor of Arts teaching degree with relevance to the teaching tasks of masshigher education. (IR)

Focuses on one of the key measures used in evaluating foster care programs, i.e., length of time in foster care. Examines several variables that affect length of time in foster care and offers suggestions for avoiding data misinterpretations on this measure. (RC)

Examined the degree of awareness, usage, and satisfaction with student services among lower division undergraduates at a four-year public university, four-year state college, and a two-year community college. Indicated a low degree of utilization of services by freshmen and sophomores but a high degree of awareness of services. (Author/RC)

Differences in program goals, theory, populations served, methods, duration, staff, and evaluation measures make it difficult to compare the effectiveness of different infant intervention programs. Formative evaluation is suggested as a way of ensuring that programs are being carried out. Where effectiveness is in doubt, process evaluation can…

Describes skill learnability, the degree to which a managerial skill can be acquired or modified by training and development. Argues that managerial skills comprised of large social/interactive components and affected by underlying noncognitive attributes are more difficult to learn than skills articulated through a common body of knowledge.…

Assessed the effectiveness of trained volunteers in leading parent education programs. Compared volunteer and professionally led groups in an ongoing extension-sponsored parenting program. Urban/rural comparisons were also made. There were no significant differences between volunteer and professionally led groups on child gains or parent…

Discusses five critical issues pertaining to quality infant care: improving training for caregivers of infants and toddlers, ensuring health and safety, meeting special needs of children and their parents, balancing high quality and affordability, and evaluating program effectiveness. (RH)

Describes a peer counseling program for teenage boys at a social adjustment center. After receiving peer facilitor training the boys acted as counselors for students at an elementary school. Results indicated that training was an effective treatment, resulting in better self-concept and social relationships. (JAC)

Presents a workshop focusing on increasing: self-knowledge of participants and their environment, and decision making skills for occupational midlife reassessment and change. Concludes that these workshops should be pursued by counselors in other settings to assist clients in transition. Personal sharing among participants led to self-insight and…

Research has demonstrated that while it is relatively easy to increase drug knowledge, it is more difficult to modify attitudes. Reviews studies and examines the existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of drug education. The largest number of studies found no effects of drug education upon use. (RC)

Teacher aides have made a major contribution to educationally disadvantaged children in Tennessee. Title I directors recommend that: (1) the teacher aide program should be continued; (2) inservice training programs for teachers and aides should be coordinated; and (3) additional study on qualification and educational preparation of aides is…

This study of seventh-grade girls replicated a 1975 Blatt and Kohlberg study. Experimental subjects received a ten-week moral education program; controls discussed nonmoral issues in English class. Results indicated that the moral education program, even in this brief time period, increased moral judgment. (Author/SJL)