A discussion of the results of a microteaching experiment in Great Britain that indicates that self-instructional microteaching is effective in bringing about large and stable changes in teacher behavior. (Author/HB)

Parents (12 families) used self-instructional booklets to decrease their children's (ages 4 through 8) interrupting behaviors. A mean improvement of 31 percent was found with 11 of the 12 children showing improvement and 7 of these significant improvement. All parents rated the program positively. (Author/DB)

The purpose of this module cluster is to enable students to demonstrate that they can plan for changes in the academic behavior of their elementary school pupils and then change the behavior. The cluster is intended for use after the completion of normal college entrance competencies, liberal arts requirements, practicum experience, methods…

This paper describes a curriculum that attempts to provide counselor trainees with the necessary abilities to improve their counseling after they leave the learning environment and enter the world of work. These efforts come through training in self-control techniques during a counselor education masters program. A first course exposes trainees to…

Each of 15 first-year graduate students in Clinical Psychology enrolled in a criterion-referenced self-training course on clinical interviewing received either immediate or delayed feedback on their performance in simulated interviews. The immediate feedback groups (IF, two triads) practiced the requisite skills for each module with the continuous…

Seven of 14 first-year graduate students in Clinical Psychology enrolled in a criterion-referenced self-training course in clinical interviewing were shown a tape of a faculty member or advanced graduate student performing the requisite skills for each of nine modules. Tapes were shown immediately preceding practice of the skills. All students met…

A course on military tactics was programed to provide four types of student response conditions: reading the item and writing the answer (overt, constructed), reading the item and thinking the answer (covert, constructed), reading the item with the answer included and then writing the answer (overt, prompted), and reading the item with the answer…

Instructional technology, defined as the application to instruction of a primary or underlying science, refers in the present context to the science of human behavior with regard to problems of instruction and learning. Instructional films, though of a very high technical standard, and though widely used nowadays, are seldom constructed along the…

How does one conduct a workshop in self-instructional film production? A demonstration kit was put together to enable a teacher to do this. It consists of five monographs' ("Programing the Instructional Film", "Stating Objectives", "Developing The Instructional Specification", "An Introduction to Programing", and "Lighting Fundamentals"), one 8mm…