This is a report on the research evaluation of an educational program for very young children initiated under the conviction that adult illiteracy might be prevented through intervention into the "cycle of poverty." The method of intervention was to provide a group of preschool children from public assistance families with a training…

Discussing Controversial Issues (DCI) is a skill training program designed for high school students and teachers with an overall objective of developing student and teacher skill in discussing controversial issues effectively. The course materials identify 13 moderator techniques which teachers practice, and 13 participant techniques which…

The paper approaches the problems of lack of communication and the development of stereotypes that have grown up between vocational teachers and counselors. Developing a strategy to deal with a portion of the problem, counselors' perceptions of vocational education, a program was conducted during the summer of 1972, placing counselors in skill…

The Final Report, Volume 1, covers research results of the Michigan State University Driver Performance Measurement Project. This volume (Volume 2) constitutes a guide for training observers/raters in the driver performance measurement procedures developed in this research by MSU. The guide includes a training course plan and content materials…

Flight simulators are built as realistically as possible, presumably to enhance their training value. Yet, their training value is determined by the way they are used. Traditionally, simulators have been less important for training than have aircraft, but they are currently emerging as primary pilot training vehicles. This new emphasis is an…

An individual trainer for giving students in the radar intercept observer (RIO) schools concentrated practice in procedures for air-to-air intercepts was designed around a programmable graphics terminal with two integral minicomputers and 8k of core memory. The trainer automatically administers practice in computing values of variables in the…

This document is meant to be used as a teaching aid to help business teachers in Pennsylvania high schools prepare pupils to assume positions in business offices. Methods are suggested by which business mathematics may be presented to develop the greatest level of pupil achievement. The chapters outline business mathematics in the high school…

The purpose of this manual is to provide a new Federal or State quality control reviewer, with a background and understanding of his job in the Office of Management in the Regional Office of the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The mission of the Service is to enable certain of America's…

This program identified applications and developed design characteristics for generalized training devices. The first of three sequential phases reviewed in detail new developments in Naval equipment technology that influence the design of maintenance training devices: solid-state circuitry, modularization, digital technology, standardization,…

A procedural manual for manpower training staff constitutes the first section of this book. The manual has two basic purposes: (1) to help the staff recognize the major problems experienced by socially disadvantaged adult trainees who are aspiring toward greater social and financial success, and (2) to provide the staff with a range of practical…

Dona Ana Mental Health Services (DAMHS) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has completed a five year demonstration project intended "to explore the effectiveness of a special method of selecting, assigning, training, and giving consultation to nonprofessional mental health workers as they and the community develop special mental health services." These…

The Communication Program of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is creating a self-contained training package on Instructional Planning for administrators, teachers, and others who plan, select, manage, and evaluate instructional programs. The training package consists of three sequential units: Problem Analysis, Goal…

The third in a series of books on human potential, the focus of this book is the leadership and management capability of people in public service. The chapters of the book are: 1. The Leadership Gap; 2. The Leader: Definitions; 3. The Issue Develops; 4. Creative Pressures for the '70s; 5. The Private-Public Dialogue; 6. Response: The Universities;…

A feasibility study was undertaken as part of a program to develop quantitative techniques for prescribing the design and use of training systems. As the second step in this program, the present study attempted to: (1) refine quantitative indices employed during the early research, (2) conduct laboratory research on the effects which task index…

This book presents a system by which feedback might be generated and used as a basis for organizational change. The major areas covered consist of the development of a rationale for the use of simulation in the selection of supervisors, a description of actual techniques, and a method for training individuals in the use of the material. The…