This program was designed to train students in the principles of applied epidemiology and concepts of herd disease prevention. It included a lecture course, a client education program, and demonstration herds for providing students with clinical training, to collect data for documenting herd disease prevention, and for problem solving. (LBH)

Highly disturbed patients (N=75) were sent through the Silva Mind Control training to determine which patients might get into difficulty. Only one became appreciably more disturbed. The most consistent finding was a dramatic increase in reality testing, as determined clinically and on objective psychological testing. (Author)

The role of the student teacher liaison supervisor will continue to progress. First the people serving in the position shall continue to be competent classroom teachers with their own unique skills and interests, and second, the liaison supervisors should continue to be responsive to the feedback generated by student teachers. (Author)

This paper describes a seminar in community psychology aimed at providing students paradigms to critically examine the efficacy of concrete community interventions in seven substantive areas. Such paradigms included models of service delivery, conceptualizations of understanding and treating dysfunctions, and time and target dimensions in…

Student teachers were video-taped in teaching situations and their behavior was coded to determine the relative cognitive or affective emphasis of their teaching. The experimental group (N=9) exhibited significantly more affective behavior after exposure to two of the three interpersonal skills. (Author)

Public schools and universities, involved in implementing teacher education programs, cooperatively need to prepare teachers who can guide each pupil in the school and class setting to attain optimal growth in all relevant facets of development. Outdated approaches in teaching need to be identified and guidance given to prospective teachers.…

This study employs a factorial design to investigate the efficacy of all possible combinations of modeling, praise, and criticism as a means of teaching empathic responding to counselor trainees. Results indicate a significant effect for modeling and stage of training. Discussion focuses on the critical elements of effective feedback techniques.…

Discusses the use of satellite-mediated distance learning. Highlights include costs; implementation; interactive distance learning (IDL); instructional design; a case study of a training course designed for IDL that used satellite technology; and a checklist for planning satellite-mediated IDL. (LRW)

A study of five adults with severe mental retardation in a residential facility found that progressive time delay was effective in establishing a receptive repertoire of communicative gestures. Results of the study also found no differential training effect for known versus unknown gestures. (Author/CR)

Displays responses from 540 organizations plus other recent surveys that show how much training is provided at what cost, types of courses provided, training staff, outsourcing, technological delivery methods, and human performance practices. Also looks at whether measures show that training is linked to performance. (JOW)

This study evaluated a treatment package to improve on-task academic skills by three children with autism. Program components included delayed reinforcement for on-task and on-schedule responding, fading of instructional prompts and instructor's presence, unpredictable supervision, and response cost for off-task responding. On-task and on-schedule…

A study assessed the efficacy of a written script/cue card program to teach conversational speech skills to three verbal, literate boys (ages 8-10) with autism. Initially boys demonstrated low frequencies of conversational speech. Following intervention, all three quickly met the training criteria and maintained correct responding without cue…

This article details the qualitative results of focus groups with adults who are visually impaired and received assistive technology (AT) training (n=55) and with AT trainers (n=48). Participants described the state of AT training at the beginning of the 21st century from their perspectives as students and teachers. (Contains 4 references.)…

Discusses instructional delivery models and their physiology in distributed learning systems. Highlights include building delivery models; types of delivery models, including distributed classroom, self-training on the Web, online training, communities of practice, and performance support systems; and actors (users) involved, including experts,…

Teachers are usually trained in stimulus-response techniques that run counter to democratic school-reform principles. Encouragement training, which prioritizes relationships, respectful dialog, and group decision making, changes the way teachers run their classrooms, resulting in students who are more involved, responsible, and academically…