The effectiveness of videotape feedback, verbal feedback, and a combination of videotape and verbal feedback upon the psychomotor performance of 90 borderline, mild, and moderately retarded adolescent students in a residential school was compared. The students were divided into a high intelligence group and a low intelligence group and then…

Reported is a case study of a 5-year-old, severely retarded, malnourished boy who practiced rumination (regurgitating small amounts of food to rechew and then reswallow). It is explained that the child was premature and weighed only three and a half pounds at birth, that the child was fed only milk prior to involvement with the special preschool…

This two-volume report describes three 8-hour training packages designed to provide trainees with some of the knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively as educational change agents. These modules, described in volume 1, can be adapted to include information from the client system's change activities for use in several of the training…

Direct Procurement Petty Officer (DPPO) program trainees, who were recruited after they had acquired technical training in civilian schools (associate or comparable degree in electronics), were compared with regular 'A' school trainees in terms of academic performance, job performance, and cost of training. The DPPO trainees were judged by their…

With Project Aurora, the Elyria, Ohio, Public Library tested an alternative form of library extension, as possibly more effective and economical than a branch or bookmobile. Between July 1970 and June 1972, four nonprofessional library representatives made monthly visits to homes, to provide books, to stimulate interest in the library, and to…

Surveys of 188 transit properties and on-site visits were conducted to determine the training needs of operators and mechanics in the urban mass transportation industry. The appendices include listings of respondents and sample copies of the survey questionnaires and visit reports. (NTIS)

The problem of time-shortening the first year of the apprenticeship training program now on-going in the tool, die and precision machining industry is addressed. A research study was carried out comparing apprentices in on-going programs with apprentices in a newly designed programed course of instruction. The results, which are discussed in…

This study determined the effectiveness of a group training procedure in improving performance of intellectually average students on the Raven Learning Potential measure, and examined the differential effectiveness of training by race and social class. The sample of 379 second through fifth graders, half of whom were black, were pretested on…

This handbook has been prepared for the purpose of offering guidance and assistance in the development and administration of a volunteer program within Army Community Service. It contains eight chapters. Chapter 1 is the Introduction. Chapter 2, Volunteers Are Partners and Team Members, considers the importance of attitudes, agreement on volunteer…

The report is the second in a series related to the problems of working effectively in cross-cultural interaction situations. The author develops a conceptual frame of reference for considering aspects of human nature that affect the interaction situation. Three keys to effective interaction are identified. It is argued that the selection and…

The effects of two types of elaboration training (imagery and sentence generation) on the paired associate learning of 32 educable mentally retarded children (aged 9 to 13 years were compared over two levels of verbalization (none and overt). Each S was first tested on a warmup list, then trained to generate elaborations, and finally given two…

The appendix is a guide to the curriculum and training procedures of the Integrated Management of Cerebral Palsy project which evaluated the effectiveness of a program of conductive education. Introductory sections provide an overview of conductive education (training motorically disabled children in small, motivating groups of similarly…

The booklet offers guidelines in both Spanish and English to parents who are toilet training a mentally retarded child. The toilet training process is broken down into tasks that the child must learn, and the importance of positive reinforcement for each successfully accomplished task is emphasized. It is recommended that parents keep charts…

The automation of weapons system training presents the potential for significant savings in training costs in terms of manpower, time, and money. The demonstration of the technical feasibility of automated training through the application of advanced digital computer techniques and advanced training techniques is essential before the application…

To determine whether preservice teachers would demonstrate a significant change in level of teacher enthusiasm after participating in a training intervention on teacher enthusiasm, and whether these same preservice teachers could maintain the increased level of teacher enthusiasm three weeks after termination of training, twenty preservice…