The article describes one approach to preparing a diverse group of 15 individuals representing seven different agencies in Chicago-Cook County's criminal justice system, to assume the responsibility for planning, administering, and delivering training within their respective agencies. (Author/BP)

This article outlines the background and the basic components of microteaching and describes it as a means of providing foreign language teaching trainees with an experience that will ease the transition from the laboratory situation to the actual teaching setting. Criticism of the method is included. (CLK)

This simulation project is valuable as a means of training and evaluation in counselor education and in studying counselor cognitive processes. It also provides an opportunity to test the sufficiency of an explicit set of theoretical constructs for explaining client behavior. (Author)

Describes the program of the Learning Resource and Development Center established by the Center for Educational Development of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to provide self-instructional practice of clinical skills through the use of instructional simulations and assistance to the medical faculty in developing and evaluating the…

A study is reported which evaluated the content of three instructional videotapes designed to impart information and to demonstrate regional (spinal, epidural, and caudal) anesthesia motor skills. Pretest-posttest results demonstrated that the tapes successfully met predetermined criteria. Advantages of the method for medical student instruction…

There are two crucial limitations in preparing graduate teaching assistants (TAs) for the composition classroom: the background they bring to teaching and the limited time available for training. Most TAs, although knowledgeable in literature, lack authority on the subject of composition instruction. An ideal TA would (1) have a masters degree;…

The Langugage Proficiency Assessment Committees (LPACs) authorized by Congress were given the responsibility of assessing limited-English-speaking students within a school district and making placement recommendations regarding these students to the local school board. This packet consists of a variety of materials, mostly handouts to assist in…

This participant manual was developed to accompany a workshop to provide environmental protection professionals with skills needed to plan and deliver training programs. Each of the ten units contains a unit overview, content summaries, assignments, and figures. The materials are designed to strengthen skills in designing instructional objectives,…

The aim of this study was to show that the superiority of corrected-for-guessing scores over number right scores as true score estimates depends on the ability of examinees to recognize situations where they can eliminate one or more alternatives as incorrect and to omit items where they would only be guessing randomly. Previous investigations…

This report describes the Generalized Maintenance Trainer-Simulator (GMTS), an instructional system designed to give electronics students intensive troubleshooting practice in a simulated hands-on training environment, and reports on a field evaluation of the GMTS applied to systems level troubleshooting in radio communications. The GMTS can be…

The effects of behavioral consultation (defined by J. Bergan as the application of behavioral theory and research in consultation services) techniques were applied to the teacher of an aggressive, noncompliant, autistic male child (aged 6 years). The consultant utilized Bergan's four stages of problem solving: problem identification, problem…

This document presents a training course in oceanography intended for Junior Bachelor of Science (B.S.) graduates in physics, mathematics, chemistry, zoology, botany or geology to give them the minimum qualifications required to work in any of the marine science stations. This 14-week course, organized by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and…

Relationships are examined among linking functions and the linking agent role in the context of factors that determine the function and affect the role. The historical context in which educational dissemination has evolved is described, and three major clusters of dissemination concepts that have been identified and analyzed since 1966 are…

This report describes a continuing education program designed for trainers and supervisors working in community mental health centers, and is based on principles of community participation: grassroots planning, peer education, and accountability. Self-designed training, as a model of program development, has been successful in terms of its…