This article is designed to assist planners of inservice programs to broaden the range of courses and other types of activities offered within their system of training. Five basic dimensions of an inservice course must be considered: time, people, form, objectives, and sponsor. These dimensions are expanded into a comprehensive working checklist…

This report summarizes the technical report Outcome Evaluation Report for Preparing Educational Training Consultants: Skills Training (PETC-I) which presents the data collected about the three outcome studies of the PETC-I system. This information is primarily summative in nature and is designed to help those who may be considering the system as a…

A packet of ten evaluation instruments was developed that emphasizes decision-oriented evaluation of inservice teacher preparation programs in secondary school science. It is hoped that these instruments are generalizable enough to be shared, modified, used, and/or validated by participants in workshops similar to the one in which these…

Process and product evidence presented in the paper indicate that the competency-based, mastery learning inservice workshop can be an effective diffusion strategy for an educational innovation. The innovation under study was a competency-based, mastery learning, individualized instruction project; the diffusion methods used were the same as the…

Described are two instruments used in a workshop designed to help teachers clarify their own beliefs about education and to shape their classroom behavior accordingly. The Student-Content Inventory concerns styles of student-teacher interaction and the Educational Theory Inventory correlates the respondent's beliefs to major educational theories.…

This article describes the attempt to develop an explicit technique for group problem-solving which can be tested in real situations presented by clients. Older adults were used as subjects for the six-session workshop. Satisfactory results were reported. (Author/BP)

Identifies various ways in which training, education, and production have been combined and which institutional formats have been used. Analyzes the underlying principles of such combinations, their problems, and their likely variation in learning outcomes and impact. The discussion is limited to developments and programs in East and Southern…

Describes a Hebrew University program for academically disadvantaged students, focusing on a workshop component which emphasizes learning skills and study strategies. An evaluation of the workshop indicates that it leads to improved achievement in several academic fields (including the natural sciences). (DH)

A week-long formal training institute preparing teaching assistants in French for classroom and other responsibilities is outlined. The program features course and student management techniques as well as instructional methods. (MSE)

Seven articles explore and suggest means of publicizing school library services to students, teachers, administrators, and the general community. (CLB)

Reviews the efforts undertaken in the Florida Model Microcomputer Trainer Project (FMMTP) and its statewide impact. Outlines its procedural strategies, trainer curriculum, networking system, and the results of its multiplier effect. (ML)

Outlines content of an extended inservice workshop (three hours credit, sixteen weeks, graduate level extension course) for professional school personnel which enables participants to take responsibility for improvements making their school site suitable for outdoor education activities. (NEC)

Two staff members of the first Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Summer Institute held outside the United States commented on the reasons for and the objectives of the institute, preoccupation of the participants, course types, main interests of participants, and suggestions for future institutes. (Author/LMO)

The author describes an experimental project that brought family members together to learn about various topics. The project attempted to (1) build bridges between the school and the home, (2) increase parental motivation, (3) extend the subjects' choice of role models, and (4) widen the populations served by education. (CH)

Outlines model of experiential learning process based on personal construct theory. Suggests that, through sensitivity training, participants' construct systems become modified, either by defining constructs to understand self and others, or by incorporating new themes into the construct system to provide broader understanding of interpersonal…