Provides citations and abstracts from documents in the ERIC junior colleges collection dealing with community college efforts to meet the needs of their service districts through cooperative educational ventures of external organizations and agencies. (DMM)

Describes a statewide training needs assessment based on joint state agency and university planning. Sample findings are presented for both the statewide population and various job function groupings. Differences in expressed training needs across job function groups are examined, and strategies for providing effective and efficient training are…

Describes how the concept of user education developed in Pakistan under the influence of UNISIST. The outline of an inservice orientation course on the structure and use of subject literature for college teachers, and a questionnaire used to determine prior training and skills of participants are appended. (LLS)

Describes a human resources development program for school administrators, including training in management functions, leader behavior skills, instructional leadership skills, and more traditional topics. (Author/JM)

Primary prevention focuses on lowering incidences of emotional problems and promoting positive mental health where no special difficulty is indicated. A need exists for counselors to develop the special skills to carry out primary prevention strategies. Skills include educational skills, program development skills, and change agent skills.…

Describes state level development of a television series for family day-care training and a two-year work/study paraprofessional program for day-care providers. (RH)

Seventy-six department heads were asked what responsibilities they believed were most important in their jobs and what responsibilities they considered themselves most competent to fill. (Author/MLF)

Describes an approach used in Ramsey County, Minnesota to improve quality of family day care. (CM)

Examines the development and usefulness of the Elementary Science Teachers' Preferences (ESTP) test. Findings suggest that this instrument is useful and valid in determining differences between teaching preferences of teacher-centered and student-centered teachers. Findings also indicate that polarized labeling of teachers is inappropriate. (MA)

Describes a one-and-a-half day workshop designed to introduce engineering graduate students to effective teaching methods. (MLH)

A report of an advanced workshop for inservice directors in which they designed, implemented, and evaluated a research project to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of a particular inservice offering given in their agencies. Summaries of seven participants' project reports are included. (WL)

Emphasizes the need that continuing education programs for nurses in hospitals orient newly employed graduate nurses specifically to infection control measures as carried out in that institution and then to reinforce these learnings by regular planned programs. Points out ways that those responsible for inservice nursing education can facilitate…