Lower manpower quality and increasingly sophisticated equipment are creating training problems for both industry and the military. The training technology demanded by this situation must be delivered to and available at the job site, must be designed to motivate independent use by students rather than to encourage teacher acceptance, must be…

Vanguards in Training presents, in summary form, the National Training System's (NTS) Training Grant Program supported throughout the Nation by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to increase the skills, career mobility, and credentials of drug abuse prevention, treatment, and research personnel. The program summaries speak for themselves…

Action learning is receiving increasing attention from human resource development (HRD) practitioners and the HRD management literature. Action learning has been characterized as follows: (1) working in small groups to take action on meaningful problems while seeking to learn from having taken the specified action lies at the foundation of action…

Debates the notion that a nation's system of higher education should be managed according to manpower needs in the economy. Suggests that the traditional free-choice principle in which education responds to student choice should be retained. Also touches on who should bear the financial burden of higher education. (Author/DN)

THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC PROGRESS HAS PLANNED A COMPENDIUM OF PAPERS TO PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAMS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. THIS OUTLINE FOLLOWS THE FIRST PHASE OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATION, A SURVEY OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS REPORTED IN "FEDERAL…

Bilingual programs funded through the Bilingual Education Act, Title VII, are presently serving 129,000 students. Approximately 80 percent of the 7.7 million students who should receive these programs' benefits are Spanish Speaking. Bilingual instruction should be carried out in 246,400 classes with an average of 25 pupils per class. Instructors…

Paper is continuation of an article on training within insurance and attempts to show the value of a systematic approach to on-the-job training and to prove that the methods discussed in this paper enable training to a high degree of accuracy to be effected in a short time. (Author)

Describes an investigation to determine the effectiveness of an eight-month management training program for college graduates conducted by the American Management Association. Examines evaluation criteria, method, measurement instruments, data analysis and results. Charts, tables, references. (Author/RB)

The process of evaluating the training of federal civil service employees is summarized in three phases: (1) the focus--establishing the scope and objectives of the evaluation effort, (2) the plan--developing a blueprint for conducting the project, and (3) the implementation--obtaining necessary data, interpreting them, and providing conclusions…

The purpose of the literature review is to outline the basic considerations involved in designing and conducting meaningful evaluation of training efforts in work organizations. First to be examined are basic questions in training evaluation strategy: the barriers to conducting evaluation of training efforts, the reasons for conducting such…

This report is designed to provide human resource development professionals and their managers with a framework to help justify the costs of structured on-the-job training (OJT). The report begins by defining OJT as the one-on-one process of providing the knowledge and skills to perform a specific task within a job. These five features of OJT are…

This monograph proposes and describes a systems-based field of study for the training and development (T&D) profession: human performance technology. The first section describes what is meant by a field of study and professional practice and then provides a rationale for the proposal. Section 2 explores training and development in the context…

As a result of a seminar investigating the need for certification of trainers, a list of core competencies for training and development specialists was compiled. This checklist is organized into eleven areas of competency: (1) administration; (2) communication; (3) course design; (4) evaluation; (5) group dynamics process; (6) learning theory; (7)…

This document outlines the need for manpower training and discusses the components of adequate training as provided by the Industrial Training Act of March, 1964, in order to set guidelines and standards for industries involved in the training revolution in England. Besides training and what it entails, the document presents the philosophy of…

This manual presents a training program developed from an assessment of what the manpower counselor must be able to do based upon the overall goals of manpower training. The training package is divided into eight general competency areas: counseling techniques (individual and group), staff relationships. client information and referral services,…