A program was conducted to improve the quality of food service through the training of 44 food and nutrition service employees in a 200-bed hospital. A 12-week quality control program was implemented to address four key areas: food temperatures, food accuracy, food quality, and dietary personnel. Learning strategies, emphasizing critical thinking…

Because hospitalization is often a frightening and traumatic experience for children and their families, a practicum designed a system of inservice training experiences for hospital personnel. These experiences were intended to enhance or develop skills that would assist them in addressing the needs and concerns of hospitalized children and their…

The significant number of firefighter trainees experiencing performance evaluation anxiety during fire training school was addressed by the implementation of anxiety reduction and performance enhancement strategies. Audiotape recordings were chosen as the primary intervention medium to facilitate program effectiveness within an established fire…

Adult and continuing education programs use an established accountability system that includes an expectation of productivity, whereas other educational programs focus accountability on attainment of stated goals and objectives. As education addresses economic constraints by combining educational programs, these differences in accountability…

A study examined the effect of audiovisual-supported instruction on student grade point average. Two groups of students in economics classes taught by the same instructor served as the sample population for the study. The first group, consisting of 36 students, received four 1-hour lectures each week. The second group, consisting of 32 students,…