The purposes of this study were to: (1) determine the feasibility of increasing the quality of job performances of counselors and identifying changes in career maturity attitudes of counselors in the area of personnel needs of business and industry; (2) examine the effects of a structured inservice program to aid counselors in performing job…

Presented is information gathered by questionnaire and direct telephone interviews on programs preparing vocational and special education personnel to work with special needs students. Outlined are data gathering procedures (sample questionnaire and interview forms are included); resulting data on operational programs, projected programs, programs…

Treatment programs dealing with alcoholism have historically been staffed primarily by nondegreed professionals. The recovered alcoholic, usually without an advanced degree, continues to occupy an almost unequaled role. This project describes an attempt to design meaningful, useful training for these alcoholism counselors. Intensive personal…

This paper presents an overview of recent literature concerning the declining interest and application of psychological testing within clinical services. It reflects a dissatisfaction with personality assessment techniques primarily due to a distorted presentation by the graduate schools training applied and professional psychologists. New and…

This study compared the techniques used by college English teachers in their classrooms with the comments of subject experts concerning the value of these methods. In order to assess the frequency of teachers' use of specific techniques, a job analysis questionnaire consisting of 29 items was given to 15 faculty members and 15 doctoral students in…

This guide was written to provide educational practitioners with a convenient, comprehensive, accurate source of information about evaluation training materials. Criteria for inclusion in this guide were (1) that the product was developed by a federally funded laboratory or research and development center; (2) that the product, or some part of it,…

This collaborative monograph by four authors is a comprehensive survey of the mass training of medical doctors in the USSR. (Author/ND)

Presentation made in connection with the 50th Anniversary of Boston University School of Education, May 1968.

There is an increasing awareness of the importance of curricular issues in the educational undertaking. The curriculum, which in all its definitions contains as a common denominator the organization of educational opportunities that schools provide for their pupils, demands and needs some specific type of professional educators. Such professionals…

The report covers the replication and continuation efforts of Project UPSTART, a program in Washington, D.C. and southern Maryland, for severely retarded and multihandicapped infants and young children. The sequenced neurosensorimotor program (SNSP) provides the following services: a diagnostic educational prescriptive program; therapeutic…

An experimental interdisciplinary training program was founded at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel to train child care specialists to assume leadership roles in work with the young child and his family. The organization and objectives of the program are described. Follow-up of graduates indicates high rate of employment throughout the…

This document, one in a series developed to provide technical assistance to 22 Long-Term Care Gerontology Centers, discusses the rationale for the development of gerontological education as well as the content and program focus of career training and continuing education. The next section examines the current literature on education for long-term…

The purpose of this study is to describe a positive supervisory experience from the supervisor's point of view. Four field interviews with supervisors responsible for training and evaluating professionals were subjected to phenomenological content analysis. Unlike the methods of experimental science, phenomenological analysis seeks to determine…

The Indochinese Mental Health Project of the International Institute of San Francisco has as its major goal that of helping Indochinese refugees to receive training and to find employment in community mental health services in order that they may work with incoming refugee populations. Prospective trainees are evaluated and selected on the basis…

IN A STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE, INTERVIEW RESPONSE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN A LARGE MIDWEST CITY FROM 520 STAFF MEMBERS OF TEN PRIVATE AND SIX PUBLIC SOCIAL WELFARE AND HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING SPECIAL SERVICES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED. INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM RESPONDENTS WAS POOLED TO REFLECT PROPERTIES OF THE 16…