The goals of the OIC organization in Jacksonville include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, pre-vocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing and emphasizing minority group…

The urban crisis has sparked two primary needs: 1) orienting formal education to the aural-visual needs and psychological set of the child, rather than to the outmoded administrative ease of the teacher; and 2) educating the majority society to the needs and problems of minority racial groups. Two efforts to meet the first problem are use of media…

Students (N=49) in an undergraduate educational psychology course designed and conducted behavioral self-modification projects. Correlation and regression analyses suggested weak but significant relationships between self-modification outcomes and a linear combination of dogmatism, sex, and mathematical aptitude variables. The effects of demand…

Illustrates use of self-control procedures to modify teacher instructional behavior. A teacher wanted to increase the frequency of approval statements and decrease the frequency of disapproval statements. She followed a plan that included a card self-recording system, cues, and overt rewards. (Author)

Self-help groups provide help and support for members in dealing with their problems and improving their psychological function and effectiveness. This paper focuses on the multitude of technical issues surrounding the evaluation of the effectiveness or outcome of self-help groups, especially what, when, and whom to measure. (Author/JEL)

Curriculum content, course objectives, and program development and implementation processes are discussed for this medical self-help training program for rural communities. (MB)

Reviews self-directed lifelong learning among adults in London from 1558-1640 as nurtured by individuals, organizations, self-improvement publications, and colleges. (EM)

The Land Use Decision Making Kit (LUK), an audio-tutorial program, is described. Topics detailed include: kit construction, design, orientation, organization, accessing information, packaging, and distribution. (BT)

Used Holland high-point code and Self-Directed Search scale scores to predict benefit from a self-help career counseling intervention for 52 students undecided as to career. Participants with realistic, investigative, or conventional high-point codes showed greater changes in vocational identity when compared with participants with artistic,…

Counselors can teach clients to acquire competence in self- instruction. The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that define such competence constitute a legitimate curriculum for counseling. A model of self-instruction is described and the use of this model by counselors to assist clients to develop as self-instructors is discussed and illustrated.…

Outlines data on the socioeconomic, health, and educational status of Blacks in Georgia. Calls for the maximization of internal resources for internal development, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. (GC)

Self-help training is most effective when it involves assessing skills and deficits prior to training; developing training goals based upon consideration of the individual's ultimate level of functioning; preparing the training environment; implementing effective training programs; evaluating training effectiveness; and promoting maintenance and…

Teachers can aid students in solving problems by developing self-help groups in the classroom. As group facilitator, the teacher has students identify their problems, respond to problems, develop action plans, and then follow up on progress. (DF)

Suggests that one of the reasons why many of the older self-help organizations rejected professional help may be that the help that was offered was of the more authoritarian variety. (Author/AM)

Two tape-slide sequences in general pathology were used in an experiment to assess the value of self-test items and to determine whether it is better to intersperse the self-test items in the program or place them all at the end of the sequence. A highly favorable attitude to the latter method is reported. (Author/LBH)