A follow-up analysis to an evaluation study report in the January 1968 issue of Training and Development Journal. (Editor/MB)

Article describes how a group of individuals changed their behavioral style while attending U.S. Army Engineering Officer Candidate School. (Author/JB)

How to change a negative training lesson into a positive lesson through the use of student behavior, student ability, and student attitudes, by redesigning the lesson to emphasize and capitalize on recognition of positive attributes of the students. (RB)

Discusses the application of management principles by the classroom teacher. (SB)

Ways to strengthen management of universities to meet the challenge of today's diversified higher education. (IR)

Discovered in the 1960's, MBO is a direct attempt to build into management systems an unremitting attention to purpose." (Editor)

Describes the graduate cooperative program, or sandwich course, that offers administrators the learning experiences they need to induce educational and social change, to develop effective skills for anticipating and managing the future, to deal with political and emotional groups, and to study issues in broader terms. (JOW)

The literature suggests collaborative planning is purely egalitarian, but this article identifies a form called "dialectical collaboration" providing situationally determined variations in the locus of control. One district's experience planning an administrators' inservice program illustrates dialectical collaboration. The authors urge…

Of all the educators and administrators who affect the success and quality of a school, school principals are the most important. Modeled after teacher centers, the primary purpose of the principals' center would be to stimulate professional growth and effective administrative practices. (JN)

The Instructional Leadership Project of the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Public Schools determined staff development needs in the district's secondary schools and designed a three-year program to help administrators, guidance personnel, and department chairpersons build the requisite staff development skills. (PGD)

The article provides some hints from industry on how to be a good manager, focusing on defining and meeting various levels of objectives, improving an organization, identifying attitudes useful in successful management, and assigning and developing managers by paying attention to their personal strengths. (SB)

Describes the method implemented at West Virginia University for evaluating and granting life experience credit to school administrators. (WD)

To provide management students with practical learning experience, the authors use a practicum entitled the "culminating experience" as part of their management course. This approach combines variations on the case study method and the Delphi Technique with shared experiences of field practitioners. The method is adaptable for use in…

Provides an overview of the goals, recent activities, and plans of the Presidents Academy of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. Lists the members of the executive committee who can be contacted with suggestions for additional efforts. (DMM)