It appears from this study that volunteers may be largely self-selected in regard to social skills, and further training may not be necessary. The study thus lends some support to those who have argued that the success of nonprofessionals has much to do with their natural'' social skills. (Author)

A discussion of how engineers are trained to work at the BBC in Great Britain. (HB)

A look at a course in estate planning developed at the American College of Life Underwriters incorporating the case study method. (HB)

The Computer Assisted Instruction Division of the U. S. Army Signal Center and School at Fort Monmouth, N.J., has been engaged in evaluation of CAI in an interactive mode of instruction. The highlights of this computerized training system are presented. (Author/HB)

Primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of different methods of training children to solve the two-choice conditional matching problem. (Author)

It is hypothesized that the absence of a critic to provide effective feedback concerning model behavior will be associated with significant undervaluing by the subject of his performance. (Author)

Three children with severe articulation problems were trained in the production of features lacking in their repertoires to determine the extent of generalization of trained features across phonemes. (GW)

Article describes an adult education training program in two urban regions of Iran. (MM)

Article comments on problems of other countries in developing their level of adult literacy. (MM)

Article describes results of a study by 3M Company indicating the importance of motivation in training the hard-core unemployable. (Author/MM)

Article suggests implications for the management of foreign and minority workers. (Author/MM)

Report of a three-month combined ASTD - Agency for International Development venture with Walter J. Tait, training advisor and seminar leader. (Editor)

This study compared two training methods for preparing counselors to discriminate verbal, facial, and voice cues that are associated with the emotion of depression. Results showed programmed text treatment to be more effective in teaching discrimination of depressive cues than the video presentation. (Author)

The data suggest that T Groups may be valuable as a staff training method in correctional institutions--where the aim increasingly is positive rehabilitation. (Author)