Forty-three persons participated in a 4-day workshop designed to explore ways to identify and change attitudes toward advisory councils, how to develop and utilize advisory councils, and to review examples of existing advisory councils or committees. Topics discussed during the workshop included: (1) How To Select and Procure Members, (2)…

The Conference on Job Horizons was designed to provide interested persons in the Washington, D.C. area with information about employment opportunities, programs, and guidance and counseling services for disadvantaged women and girls. It also provided an opportunity to discuss ways of improving and devising new programs and more effective…

Described is the development and field testing of a set of simulation training materials, the Shannon Materials, to train management personnel of residential institutions for the mentally retarded. Defined and discussed is simulation as a training method. The materials are described as including slide-tape presentations of a real community and a…

The ES-USDA staff's understanding of, acceptance of, and perceived feasibility of balanced programming were measured before and after an ES-USDA workshop concerning the balanced programming concept. A semantic differential scale was used. Results showed that: (1) ES staff believes the following changes would be necessary for balanced…

The audio workbooks for the multimedia, individualized course in economic analysis produced for the United States Naval Academy contain the graphs, charts, review questions, and textual highlights to accompany the individualized instruction audio tapes. Other segments of the course, the behavioral objectives involved, and the various working…

An attempt is made to condense data on family day care, i.e., a form of supplemental child care that takes place in the home of a nonrelative. An overview is presented of the kinds of studies that have been done and how they fit into the larger picture of what remains to be done before we can claim to have a body of knowledge to guide us in this…

Presented are the proceedings of an environmental programing workshop on deaf blind individuals at which principles, techniques, and examples of behavior modification were discussed and demonstrated. Rules for data collection are given as well as explanations of the categorizing, the measuring devices, and the data sheets involved in behavior…

This publication is a report of a one-day workshop sponsored by the Division of Humanities and the Arts, devoted to Shinichi Susuki, Carl Orff, and Zoltan Kodaly. These three musicians shared a common interest--desire to develop more effective approaches in teaching music to children. As an introduction, the teaching philosophy and method of each…

This document is comprised of the materials for an intensive training program in evaluation. Evaluation is conceptualized as the process of determining the kinds of decisions that have to be made; and selecting, collecting, and interpreting the information needed in decisionmaking. A 5-phase model of evaluation consisting of (1) needs assessment,…

This report is primarily a background statement and historical report concerning the Environmental Education Program cooperatively developed by the School of Education and the School of Liberal Arts of Eastern Montana College, Billings, and Billings School District #2, covering the years 1967 through the spring of 1971. The report gives a brief…

This evaluation report encompasses two 3-day leadership development workshops conducted for state department staff and other vocational personnel in order to evaluate a simulation leadership training package. Prior to the workshops, the training package was developed, pilot tested, and revised. During the development phase, consideration was given…

The purpose of this workshop was to critically examine projects of nine young sociologists and social psychologists who were finalists in the small-grant program for new PhDs sponsored by the Committee on Basic Research in Education (COBRE). Since the awardees who attended the workshop had no prior training or research experience directly related…

The procedures and results of an information dissemination technique involving direct mail activities and conferences are described in this report. The approach described was utilized as the first step in an effort to begin the national implementation of the Multiunit School-Elementary. Analysis of the results of the project indicate that the…

THE COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTION OF A 5-DAY WORKSHOP CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND UNIVERSITIES WAS PRESENTED. THE PARTICIPANTS CONSISTED OF 54 REPRESENTATIVES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND COMPUTER-ASSOCIATED AGENCIES AND CORPORATIONS. TOPICS LISTED ON THE CONFERENCE AGENDA WERE (1) "COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION, LEARNING ASPECTS," (2)…

DURING THE SUMMER OF 1966, 14 TRADE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATORS FROM COLLEGES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES MET AT UCLA IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PERMIT THEM TO WORK AS A GROUP ON PROBLEMS OF MUTUAL CONCERN. THEY PARTICIPATED WITH MORE THAN 500 TRADE AND TECHNICAL TEACHERS FROM CALIFORNIA WHO WERE ENROLLED IN THE UCLA SUMMER SESSION PROGRAM. THROUGH ACTIVE…