The author describes the making and audience testing of three interactive video programs for the education and training of managers. Results indicate that, to use interactive video's full potential, program developers must create video sequences and not attempt to use existing linear video made for continuous viewing. (Author/CH)

This handbook was prepared for the guidance of participants in a workshop designed to help teach Greek Orthodox lay persons the basic elements for creating religious retreats. Part 1 of this document teach Greek Orthodox lay persons the basic elements for creating religious retreats. Part 1 of this document defines the meanings of the terms…

Designed to evaluate high school or college writing programs and writing instruction, this instrument includes six different questionnaires that provide information about the foundations of the writing program; teachers' assumptions, goals, and plans; classroom activities as observed by colleagues; the quality of writing assignments; the quality…

The Farmers Training and Functional Literacy Program should attempt to broaden the program content in exploring the possibilities of undertaking a comprehensive evaluation and the addition of social, cultural, and political education along with training in occupational functions. (Author/BP)

Reports data from the Purdue Consumer Education Study which provide a picture of the organization and scope of the national consumer education effort outside the schools. (Editor)

During the period July 1, 1968-July 15, 1969, WMKY-FM, the student radio station at Morehead State University, undertook a research project under the financing of Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide special programming for the senior citizens within their listening area and evaluate the response to their programs. First, the…

The New Communities Project is an attempt to involve the majority socioeconomic groups of British society in adult education. (AG)

By describing the working of the UTA (University of the Third Age) system in Paris and Cambridge, the author examines the differences that have arisen in the transfer of the concept from France to Britain. (Author)

Reports results of a formative evaluation of a consumer-homemaking program for low-income adults, including program content and procedures, evaluation instruments, progress of paraprofessional and professional staff, participant acceptance, program effectiveness, and implications of the evaluation. (MF)

This article consists of a conceptual framework that classifies adult educators according to the roles they occupy and outcomes they seek. This heuristic device provides a framework for discussion on training. (Editor/CT)

Looks at developments in adult reading over the past two decades, concentrating on the training of teachers, testing and evaluation, and program evaluation methods. Concludes that while adult reading has made substantial progress, it is still not a mature field. (FL)

Describes Elderhostel, a non-profit educational organization that offers inexpensive, short-term academic programs hosted by educational institutions around the world. Provides findings from two investigations of the Elderhostel programs, in 1990 and 1997. Focuses on the program's musical component. (CMK)

This issue examines the following topics: comparative adult education (its scientific status and development), adult education research activity in system analysis, the inner structure of the system of adult education, adult education research and recently completed planning work, and the contents of adult education research in West Germany,…

Describes a minimal training program designed to improve the reading skills of adults in the business world. Concludes that the program had a significant effect of the vocabulary development, comprehension, and reading rates of the participants. (FL)

This paper presents a case study of a Christian retreat held by the Federation of Greek Orthodox Choirs of the Western States of the Diocese of San Francisco (California), March 14-06, 1986 at St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center, Squaw Valley, California. The religious retreat is defined as a short-term, intensive educational program designed to…