The author states that industrial teacher educators have a unique opportunity and a responsibility to train teachers to understand development issues. These issues include the transfer of technological ideas, tools, and techniques and the characteristics of western technology and the readiness of the Third World to implement that technology. (CT)

This study reports the results of a national survey of American Council on Pharmaceutical Education-approved provider continuing education offerings during 1985. The study was designed to identify frequently presented topics, characterize types of programs offered, describe the providers offering programs, and detail continuing education…

Describes a study conducted to test the extent to which the employment criteria for positions in extension, continuing, or adult education in American universities are congruent with the content of graduate programs in the field. The results revealed a discontinuity that suggests that programs are guided by marketing rather than educational…

Concludes that remediation often consists of students completing skill lessons in workbooks with the teacher serving as manager, that most remedial activities are not congruent with classroom tasks, and that remedial students generally receive no additional instructional time to acquire reading behaviors. (FL)

Details the formation of the Eastern Washington University Department of Education Research and Editorial Group, the procedures it employs, and the rationale for its application to research, writing, editing, and publication tasks. (FL)

This article relates to two problems: how to deal with individual differences in heterogeneous classes and how to plan and implement professional development programs in this area. The planning and implementation of such a program through a process of collaboration between researchers and teachers is reported in the study. (Author)

Teachers' Notes on an educational television program written by students diverged substantially from Teachers' Notes prepared by a teacher on the same episode. Division of the 49 participating students into experimental and control groups, with the experimental group having the opportunity of group discussion prior to writing their Notes, showed…

Presents recommendations for developing the content of career development activities in secondary schools, including basic academic skills, occupational skills, job-seeking skills, world of work knowledge, and work values. Also presents recommendations to improve the delivery of career development activities in secondary schools and discusses the…

Offers a step-by-step procedure for teaching intermediate grade poor readers three important text-based strategies that boost their comprehension of expository prose by stimulating their thinking. (FL)

Reviews personnel needs and special education program components for training special education teachers for handicapped American Indian children. Describes the American Indian Special Education Teacher Training Program at the Pennsylvania State University. Summarizes 10 projects with curricula featuring content related to linguistic and cultural…

A survey of nursing faculty showed that 91 percent of nursing education programs had faculty members who had attended or participated in a conference on computers during 1983 and 1984. Other survey responses concerned computer applications integrated into nursing courses, required courses in computer technology, and computer-assisted instruction.…

Describes some innovations found in large U.S. corporations' educational programs and discusses the relevance of these innovations for educational institutions. (MCG)

Describes how continuing distance education through satellite transmitted-television can help health service professionals, and how such networks operate. The development of such a program is described, including audience, title, learning objectives, program text, and onsite instructional materials. (CT)

By describing the working of the UTA (University of the Third Age) system in Paris and Cambridge, the author examines the differences that have arisen in the transfer of the concept from France to Britain. (Author)

Describes projects designed to bring children and books together that successfully involved diverse elements of the book world. (EL)