This document focuses on the theme that rapid social and technological changes add urgency to continuing education in all fields, particularly in the field of mental health. For the purposes of this conference, continuing education was defined to include postgraduate education, staff development, inservice training, and adult education. For these…

It was hypothesized that 1) prospective teachers who have been trained in microplanning will score higher on tests of teacher effectiveness and 2) will not change their attitudes about pupils and teaching in an undesirable direction. Subjects were 20 secondary school social studies majors, 10 who volunteered to take an experimental teacher…

Issues in the improvement of training for fire fighters and officer personnel were taken up in ten symposium papers. Session I covered legal and other constraints that affect what a fire fighter should know; and current practices in volunteer, rural, and municipal fire fighter training in the United States. Papers from the other sessions dealt…

The planning activities in this research program included a review of the applied and theoretical literature in the field of learning, retention, and training, a selection of an appropriate taxonomy of tasks, a survey of Naval jobs to determine critical tasks from the standpoint of training, a series of technical meetings with consultants, and a…

A set of pilot performance reference scales was developed based upon airborne Audio-Video Recording (AVR) of student performance in T-37 undergraduate Pilot Training. After selection of the training maneuvers to be studied, video tape recordings of the maneuvers were selected from video tape recordings already available from a previous research…

This guide focuses attention on the need to improve industrial relations, both present and future. It attempts to persuade managers to devote more of their thinking and negotiating skills to reconciling the differences between their company's and its employees' interests. The guide also aims at encouraging companies to prepare for the industrial…

This book was designed to serve as a guide for the small and medium-sized firm establishing a systematic training pattern for the first time, and to the larger company for whom it will act as a useful check list. The guide examines the kind of information required and the ways in which actual companies have arrived at their training requirements…

This text has been written primarily as a handbook for organizational specialists in school districts, for those learning to become organizational specialists, and for teachers of organizational specialists. For the most part, each chapter and each major section has been organized to be understood and used independently from the rest of the book.…

The first National Assessment of Music, conducted in 1971-72, measured the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of 9 year olds, 13 year olds, 17 year olds, and young adults, resulting in estimates of proportions of people in the population who have certain attitudes toward music, knowledge about music terminology, notaion and history, and musical…

Through a longitudinal study of compensatory education programs conducted by the school district of River Rouge, Michigan, the question as to whether the application of an interorganizational change model produces significant improvements was tested. The compensatory education program, both before the interorganizational model and after it, was…

This volume contains a series of 24 case studies designed to be utilized in the training of community educators. The cases presented in this book are taken by the authors from real situations in real schools. Study questions intended to encourage trainees to improve their decision-making skills are included at the end of each case history. Topics…

Discusses the importance of both formative and summative evaluation of instructional design technology in educational and business settings. Topics discussed include interactive video, computer assisted instruction, courseware, industrial training methods, cost effectiveness, learner performance data, current research, computer simulation, and…

Describes a training program based on research in the private sector, which was developed to improve the performance and job satisfaction of the library's public contact personnel. Suggestions are offered for future research and applications based on trainee and patron evaluations. (Author/CLB)

Presents case study of an inservice training package designed to prepare teachers to implement proposed changes. Developed for an English as a second language (ELS) program for adult francophones, this package consists of workshops and materials which view implementing change as a learning process for teachers as well as students. (Author/LRW)

Seventeen speech/language pathologists were surveyed concerning reasons for and success of sign language intervention with 118 severely/profoundly mentally retarded students. Though sign language was part of the educational program for approximately one quarter of the students, results suggested that sign language was not an effective…