A three-dimensional, question-based approach to educational design involves technical, sociopolitical, and ethical dimensions. It combines enduring principles from classical planning models with newer contributions from varieties of feminism, postmodernism, critical theory, and multiculturalism. (SK)

Assesses the instructional effectiveness of three-hour addiction science workshops presented to health-care professionals. The workshop participants showed significant knowledge gain and belief changes. After six months, knowledge gains decreased, but were still higher than pre-test scores. Concludes that motivated health-care professionals can…

Presents a didactic-theoretical-experiential model of supervision training to be used in workshop format for the counseling field. Curriculum information is included, along with ideas for exercises and class discussion. Discusses common themes and potential challenges that have emerged as well as feedback from evaluations. Readers are provided…

A stress audit assessing potential stressors; stress perceptions, responses, and outcomes; and personal, group, and situational characteristics was conducted in stress management workshops for 20 employees. New skills and attitudes for dealing with stress were taught: time management, communication, alternatives to negative attitudes, and…

This account of two residencies in Northeastern England by a writer who conducted creative writing workshops for Asian immigrants touches upon conflicting ideologies, the richness of immigrant experience, and the problems of funding and publication of student writing. (SK)

Offers suggestions for preparing and delivering oral presentations and workshops, including: advance planning and organizing; advance physical arrangements of the room; delivering the presentation; post presentation actions; and conducting workshops. (MM)

Describes development and evaluation of workshop program to help people become more confident and effective as decision makers in which participants (N=76) learned about the major decisional coping patterns and the critical steps of decision making. Found workshops promoted increased confidence in decision making and less reported use of…

Describes a faculty writing group, modeled on the Eastern Virginia Writing Project. Provides guidelines for starting a faculty writing group. (MM)

College students (n=113) participated in study comparing effects of elaboration likelihood model (ELM) based assertion workshop with those of typical assertion workshop. ELM-based workshop was significantly better at producing favorable attitude change, greater intention to act assertively, and more favorable evaluations of workshop content.…

Notes that living creatively and fluidly often depends on an adult's ability to play. Describes a workshop designed to enhance awareness of the importance of play for adults and to provide imaging strategies helpful to therapists, teachers, and poets. (RS)

Explains 10 ways to use magic tricks to enhance the effectiveness of training workshops. Describes some tricks and gives sources of magic information. (SK)

Of 252 rural Alberta attendees of home-based business workshops, 60 were in business. Of these, 65 percent produced sewing, textile, or food-related products; 73 percent contributed less than 5 percent of family income; 72 percent worked at home because a hobby became profitable; and the majority were married women over 40. (SK)

Advises prospective article writers to decide what goal they wish to achieve and choose a journal to match their goals. Many journals surveyed publish articles reporting on research efforts. Beginners must make their manuscripts fit the requirements of the target journals, since editors seldom alter their own journal formats to accommodate…

Lists 122 research reports on acting, arts management, arts projects, evaluations of drama and theater, biographies, curricula, drama, dramatic dance and play, film and television, history, international theater for young audiences, puppetry, resources, script analysis, special populations, storytelling, teacher education, theater in education,…

Discusses the lack of information about cost accounting in technical publications. Argues that nobody is publishing real numbers because the real numbers are hard work, competitively advantageous, and sometimes embarrassing. (SR)