A mobile inservice unit providing continuing education for staff members of nursing homes, extended care facilities, and small hospitals has been developed by Phoenix College for Maricopa County, Arizona. (LH)

It is naive and unrealistic to expect principals alone to change the principalship. A major problem for principals is that their expectations of what their role should be often differ widely from the expectations of central office administrators, teachers, parents, "authorities," and board of education members. (Author/IRT)

An ongoing program designed to meet the educational needs of coronary care nurses in the Seattle area is described; course content for each quarterly session varies according to student requests. Two-week core sessions (ten hours of lecture-discussion) are followed by interim inservice education sessions at the pilot hospitals. (AJ)

The overall objectives of six NSF-sponsored workshops for mathematics teachers in Illinois two-year colleges are defined. The first conference on articulation and related problems, and the second on testing are described. (SD)

Provides an outline of the topics covered in the program. Included are introductions to transactional analysis and Piaget's theory of intellectual development. Explains the evaluation of the program and presents data obtained from past participants. (GS)

The opening chapter of this volume attempts to provide a framework for education about the international or global community that is emerging. Chapter 2 notes some of the recent and possible future changes in the world and in the United Nations (UN) system. The third chapter identifies some of the obstacles to learning about the world and the UN…

The instructional guide, student manual, and reference materials were developed by the PDQ Project, Planning and Development of Quality Services in the Schools, an effort by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to provide public school personnel working with communication disordered children with information and training related to…

This study sought to identify organizations within the Chicago, Illinois, area having in-house secretarial training programs and to report the training requirements for nontechnical skills for secretarial personnel. The findings and conclusions of the study were based on an analysis of responses from 42 business organizations within the Chicago…

Of the 233 facilitators trained between August 1979 and January 1985 to introduce the /I/D/E/A/ Principals' Program to principals in their local areas, 206 completed a training program evaluation form. From this form the facilitator trainers obtained data concerning factors affecting the effectiveness of facilitator training programs. Ratings were…

The packet of information is intended to help residential workers with disturbed children in the United Kingdom. The first section on theory contains two papers: "Which Children Come Into Residential Care?" (Robin Benians); and "Models of Treatment: Behavioral, Psychodynamic, Cognitive" (Daphne Lennox). The next section…

Factors reported to be important in the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development programs for department chairs are described. Attention is also directed to results from a goal-focused evaluation of the 6-year-old program to train new department heads in the nine state universities of Florida, a program that is being…

Although teacher inservice programs based on Madeline Hunter's Program for Effective Teaching (PET) have become very popular in U.S. schools, there is little evidence that the Hunter model ultimately results in increased student achievement. This longitudinal study attempts to evaluate the effects of Hunter-based staff development programs on…

This publication is a comprehensive bibliography on the assessment center method and education administration. The bibliography reveals sources for research concerning the potential of assessment center methods for screening administrative candidates, as well as for prescribing individual pre- and in-service development programs. Resources are…

This training module on parent readiness levels is based on the premise that parents pass through stages of development in accepting and working with their child's handicap. The module is designed to be used in inservice training on parent involvement and to aid staff in identifying levels of parent readiness for involvement and in recognizing…

A course was prepared by Planned Parenthood on the subject of human sexuality. The school district required an evaluation to determine effects, assess whether the instructional agency should be invited back, and to determine whether experiences should be continued. An action research approach was deemed appropriate. The objectives of the research…