Investigation supported in part by Research Grant 5-8470 from U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Second of three articles in a review, titled "Sensitivity Training: Can It Work for the Schools? .

Intended for use in conjunction with the Illinois Office of Education's School/Public Library Cooperative Community Planning Process Training Manual, this resource supplement contains guidelines for collecting information on planning team members; a suggested agenda for a cooperative planning training seminar; a suggested seminar evaluation form;…

Research in classrooms must be sensitive to new dimensions of teaching tasks that emerge at the group level. There are at least two tasks that can be identified as being affected by changes in group characteristics. The first task is to set the stage--the teacher must establish the proper context or setting to support academic activities. The…

Project READY (Realistic Education About the Days and Years) was a series of eight sessions designed for parents of pre-school and elementary school children. The project was designed to help prevent child abuse and neglect through a positive approach. A committee who represented participants and presenters carefully planned the topics and format.…

To determine how college students evaluated their classmates' writing and whether their critiquing was effective, a study examined the critique sheets of 10 students, each of whom responded to two argumentative essays written by their classmates. Results suggested that student readers did not always impose the constraints necessary for providing…

This annual volume of organizational communication abstracts presents over 1,100 abstracts of the literature on organizational communication occurring in 1979. An introductory chapter explains the classification systems, provides operational definitions of terms, and concedes the shortcomings of the research effort. An overview chapter comments…

Three group processes--regular face-to-face interacting groups, the nominal group technique (NGT), and Delphi procedures--were compared in terms of their ability to facilitate the quantitative and qualitative productivity of a decision making group. The results unequivocally supported the superiority of the Delphi procedures. Findings also tended…

This is the last of four reports of the Interactive Group Modeling project--an undertaking designed to extend group communication through computers to support the more task-focused communication required by those building computer models. The report focuses on the HUB system--a system that facilitates communication in four modes: computer…

This handbook offers guidelines to community colleges interested in the formation of advisory committees to the humanities. It begins by outlining the purposes and functions of such groups. It then emphasizes the importance of faculty and administrative support for advisory committees and suggests evidence that can be presented to promote this…

This manual is designed to train individuals to deliver courses developed within the National Training System of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The training guide, describes the content and activities that constitute training delivery, identifies behaviors and skills associated with training delivery, elaborates on program design and…

This booklet is for individuals who are interested in learning more about the process of problem-solving. It provides information and sample tools, charts, and suggestions to assist in problem-solving efforts. The first section is about the nature of the problem-solving process. Then the five steps of problem-solving--(1) focusing on the problem,…

This booklet addresses persons who would like information about leadership of community groups. It is meant to be read both by current community group leaders and by persons who aspire to be leaders. Roles and functions of community group leadership are presented, along with suggestions about how to carry out the leadership role in ways that…

An analysis is presented of students' attitudes in a leadership training program and the relationships between those attitudes. Student attitudes toward the program facilitator as a person affected their attitudes toward that person as a teacher and role model, also affecting the student's sense of belonging in the group. Student's acceptance of…

Using a sample of 757 middle-aged and older residents of the Atlanta metropolitan region, the relationship between primary group contact and morale was investigated. With a control for sex and dependency, results indicated that: (1) interaction with children has a negative impact on the morale of dependent, older males; (2) visits with children…