This trainer manual is designed to assist facilitators in the design of entry-level courses and programs for substance abuse prevention specialists. The manual initially concentrates on a basic, generic approach to community work, and introduces the knowledge and skills needed to implement substance abuse prevention programs by using the community…

This report of a joint hearing before the Senate and House Committees on Aging examines elder abuse as a growing problem in America. The testimony considers the benefits of community-based services for the elderly living with relatives, explores other forms of long-term care, and investigates ways to aid victims of elder abuse. An overview of the…

Over the past six to eight years the Center for Occupational and Professional Assessment at the Educational Testing Service has conducted many efforts in the area of professional self-testing to identify individual strengths and weaknesses as well as to determine what professionals learn from exposure to new information. The results of these…

Three sources for school curriculum--the nature of the disciplines, the needs of society, and the needs of the individual--are described and discussed. Curricula designed upon each of these three sources are illustrated, with an emphasis upon minimizing the difference between the curriculum that is needed and the curriculum that is offered. The…

Random samples of 786 Indianapolis, Indiana, residents and 413 residents of The Netherlands were interviewed in a study of media-related gratifications. Although the Dutch and American cultures and media systems differ considerably, a number of striking similarities emerged in the findings of this study, including similarities for the relative…

The relationship between student characteristics and the frequency with which students left campus on weekends was investigated. Subjects were 411 undergraduate students who completed an 11-item self-report instrument designed to measure the influence of students' class rank, sex, and distance from home on behavior, their reasons for…

Issues in curriculum development in foreign language study are discussed. Possible approaches to needs assessment are suggested by a Northeast Conference questionnaire, a New York State curriculum guide, and a position paper of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The goals of global and international education in grades K-12…

This paper discusses some generic humanistic principles and conditions of learning which should undergird a field based educational and staff development process designed to enable teachers in a variety of situations, circumstances, and schools to improve themselves personally and professionally. (Author/JD)

Employees (N=685) of SUNY at Buffalo, about equally divided among faculty, non-teaching professional and Civil Service workers, were questioned concerning planning for retirement. As campared to male respondents, higher percentages of females in all occupations indicated that they had taken more steps to prepare for retirement, and rated 12 of 19…

TO DETERMINE WHY MANY YOUNG HOMEMAKERS HAVE NOT PARTICIPATED IN ADULT EDUCATION THROUGH THE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE AND WHETHER AND WHAT KIND OF HOMEMAKING HELP THEY WANT, 20 WOMEN IN ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK WERE INTERVIEWED, GUIDED BY QUESTIONNAIRES TO WHICH VERBAL ANSWERS WERE GIVEN. OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE…

This followup study investigates whether (1) satisfaction of an individual with an occupation is a function of the correspondence between work needs of the individual and reinforcer pattern of the work environment; (2) satisfactoriness of an individual in an occupation is a function of the correspondence between work abilities of the individual…

The theme meeting on new communication and information technologies and their application to public and citizen uses and needs, which was coordinated by the National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting (NCCB), was designed as an educational experience and a working session. The 25 participants representing government, private industry, university,…

Counseling needs of women enrolled at a university after an interruption in their formal educational training are explored. The target population was women who were at least 24 years old and who had not attended an educational institution for two years prior to enrolling in the university. A stratefied sample (N=20) was chosen from a computer…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module is designed to help the CDA intern develop the knowledge and skills necessary for establishing an individualized program for young children. Objectives are presented, along with suggested activities for achieving each objective and an assessment checklist. Also provided is a study guide…

This program description and evaluation outlines the first year of operating ADAPT (Alternative Direction for Adjustment and Personal Training), an interdisciplinary four-hour daily approach to "total education" for behaviorally/emotionally handicapped high school students. It describes the program's curriculum, which provides a values…