A series of human relations laboratories was held for the administrators, faculty, and staff of the Dallas County Junior College District (Texas). Formed into T groups, the participants concentrated on developing relationships with people in authority and with those regarded as different." (JO)

Describes how the new bindery procedures in commercial bindery work can be simulated in the industrial arts laboratory. (GR)

Describes an experiment using the method of magnitude estimation to scale odorant intensities when the subject is in a nonadapted state, in an adapted state, and in a cross-adapted state. (Author/KC)

Determines through an historical review of the literature some of the most effective ways to teach manipulative skills in chemistry. Reviews chemical education journals, laboratory manuals, early American chemistry textbooks, analytical chemistry texts, and science education textbooks and journals that address instructional methods for teaching…

To learn if the experience of small group democracy in a training laboratory generalizes to the more broadly theoretical issues of ideology, a before and after experimental design was utilized at a college training laboratory to gather more direct information. Results showed highly significant shifts in democratic directions on each of four scales…

NASA Research Paper No. 20 (Grants NsG-237-62, Supplement 2, and NGR-05-007-090).

This monograph, divided into three sections, describes minicourses, outlines their possible application, presents reports from three teacher training institutions that demonstrated minicourses in conjunction with their Teacher Corps programs, and suggests guidelines for minicourse utilization in teacher education. The first section discusses the…

Recognizing the need for trained teachers to enter the classroom with confidence and professional capacity, Walla Walla College introduced a Child Psychology Experience program. Personnel from several departments contribute to this program. In connection with the child psychology courses, the project features a laboratory/demonstration center…

This new model for the supervision of student teachers utilizes videotaping hardware which allows the student teacher and his supervisor to evaluate teaching methods and behavior. Thus, the student teacher is better able to supervise himself. Employing Flanders Interaction Analysis, the student is able to interpret his teaching on closed-circuit…

This article describes a series of energy conversion experiments in the senior laboratory course at the University of California, Berkeley. (IR)

Through the YMCAs in the United States, more than 7,000 teen agers have participated in sensitivity training experiences. Interactional programs using sensitivity training with teen agers have been introduced, and the results are sufficiently positive in the YMCA to warrant wider exploration with this type of program for young people. (Author)

The results of this study show that laboratory training facilitates constructive process change in the anxiety expression of individuals who are receiving individual personal counseling for anxiety reduction. (Author)

Study results indicate that a laboratory training design helped induce and sustain major changes in a large number of the interpersonal and intergroup styles of a small organization unit. (Author)