THIS IS A SELECTIVE REVIEW OF 242 DOCUMENTS RELATED TO COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (CAI). PRINCIPAL HEADINGS ARE--CAI REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES, APPLICATIONS OF CAI, MAJOR CAI CENTERS, CAI SYSTEMS STUDIES, CAI LANGUAGES, INSTRUCTIONAL THEORY AND PROGRAM PREPARATION AND EVALUATION. AN APPENDIX LISTS 140 CAI PROGRAMS. THE REVIEW WILL BE UPDATED…

FOUR OBJECTIVES WERE DESCRIBED AS PART OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR MOTHERS. STEP 1 WAS TO ESTABLISH PARENTAL COOPERATION EXPLAINING THE NEED FOR INTERACTION BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD. STEP 2 WAS TO ERASE SOME OF THE TENSION, FEAR, AND FRUSTRATION THAT WAS AROUSED WHEN MOTHERS KNEW THEY WOULD BE TESTED BEFORE THE PROGRAM WAS UNDER WAY. STEP 3 WAS TO…

A SURVEY WAS MADE OF MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, USING DATA OBTAINED FROM 49 CORPORATIONS WITH THE HIGHEST SALES VOLUME IN 1964. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE TRAINING TECHNIQUES MOST EFFECTIVELY USED INCLUDED ON-THE-JOB TRAINING, CONFERENCE AND DISCUSSION GROUPS, AND JOB ROTATION, AND THAT UNIVERSITY COURSES, MANAGEMENT SEMINARS, AND AMERICAN…

Health professionals tend to view dying patients with two intertwined attitudes. On one hand the patient possesses an irreversible pathological condition and the doctor is obliged to help that patient embrace death with as much dignity as possible. On the other hand, the patient's imminent death is daily testimony to the limits of the doctor's…

Group assertion training has employed a variety of techniques including bibliotherapy, behavioral rehearsal, and didactic lecture presentations. Whether didactic information affects behavior, structure, and/or self-evaluation is unknown, and it is not clear whether behavioral practice enhances the effects of didactic training upon behavior,…

Past studies have shown that, although older adults are more likely than young adults to fail various concrete operational tasks, age differences on these tasks can be eliminated through short-term training. To test the trainability of formal, rather than concrete, operations college students (N=27) were compared with older adults (N=27).…

Research in the area of handwriting legibility has been hampered in the past because of a lack of objective procedures for evaluating letter formations. This study used a recently developed evaluative instrument to answer questions concerning the legibility of the handwriting of 22 first-grade students. Two baseline conditions and four…

This guide was designed to familiarize the training counselor for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program with the background and goals of the CDA program and with the CDA Instructional Materials. Suggestions for using the Instructional Materials with the trainee are emphasized. The guide is written in four sections. The first section…

This guide is designed to assist those helping professionals responsible for the development and implementation of sex fair counseling services and programs within their particular educational setting. Two designs for workshops are described with samples of all materials included. One is a full-day session which is both awareness- and…

The proceedings of this meeting on online service administration comprise the three papers presented: one written by Helen G. Drinan concerning costing and budgeting for online information services; one by Robert McDermand on marketing, publicizing, and other service aspects of online searching; and one by Donna R. Dolan pertaining to the training…

This project established seven regional demonstration centers for the teacher training products known as minicourses, designed by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The goals of these centers were identified as increased user awareness, the establishment of an environment in which educators could evaluate the…

This report describes how theoretical principles and counseling skills are taught in a program for training school counselors. The model used resembles others in assuming that three main phases can be discerned in most counseling relationships: a beginning phase, a developing phase and an action phase. Within each phase, specific skills are…

Defining selective listening as an intelligence gathering technique that depends on an individual's ability to access, monitor, and report oral messages accurately and to give processing priority to messages of possible intelligence value, this report describes one important application of the technique: overhearing the conversations of others…

A graduate-level management training program in gerontology is presented through a description of a consortium of two universities (Boston University and Brandeis University) and consisting of three types of training (gerontology and aging, sociology and social work, and management techniques). The areas of interest described in these materials…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF PROVIDING NAVY CLASS A COMMISSARYMAN SCHOOL TRAINING FOR MENTAL GROUP IV PERSONNEL. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF 17 GROUP IVS WAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF 29 REGULAR STUDENTS IN TWO SUCCESSIVE EIGHT-WEEK CLASSES OF THE COMMISSARYMAN SCHOOL. RESEARCH DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM SERVICE RECORDS,…