This research was supported by Research Grant No. 30-200-50, Indiana University Foundation, Indiana University.

Article from TRAINING TECHNOLOGY, v1 n1 pS20-S23, Sep 1969, a supplement to EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

Condensed from Traffic Safety", LXIX(March 1969), 16-18, 35-36.

The effectiveness of self-instructional training using broad verbal mediators for promoting generalization of honest behavior was examined with 60 first graders and 60 fourth graders. (MP)

Describes an adaptation of the Component Display Theory to a corporate training setting where the principal developmental effort was done by content experts. An overview of the Component Display Theory is included with a case study illustrating the application process. Examples of the resultant training products are included. (MBR)

Seven- and eight-year-old children were given two memory trials on each of five consecutive days. Results indicate that children who were given only demonstrations and directions to use particular mnemonic strategies did not perform as well as children who were provided explanations and feedback regarding the mnemonic value of these actions. (MP)

Stresses the fact that on-the-job training in written communication is a continuous process. Presents a writing curriculum, developed by the Illinois Office of the Auditor General, that offers a planned sequence of learning activities. (PD)

This literature search revealed a wide diversity of industrial training methods, a shortage of research and information, and an emphasis by corporations on accountability of costs and procedures and on evaluation. (SK)

An approach to individual supervisory coaching, "communication by objectives," is appropriate for all supervisors, systematically teaching them to translate concepts into skills and to apply those skills on an individualized basis to employees. (Author/MLF)

An instructional procedure composed of a graded sequence of prompts and token reinforcement was used to train three mildly/moderately retarded males (12 to 24 years old) in a complex chain of behaviors which included sorting, washing, and drying clothes. Follow-up probes demonstrated maintenance of laundry skills over a 10-month period. (Author)

Signs were used successfully with a blind 10-year-old autistic girl. After eight months of training, she was able to acquire a functional sign vocabulary relying primarily on the tactile-kinesthetic and the auditory modalities. This newly acquired skill had a beneficial impact on the child's general functioning. (Author)

Describes the Consumer Education Project for Educable Mentally Retarded (EMR) 13- to 16-year-olds in the St. Louis, Missouri, public schools. (Author/CM)

Female college students were given a training task involving anagrams, mathematical problems, perceptual identifications, or all three. Results indicate that increasing the variety of training tasks at high or low levels of required effort contributes to the student's abstraction of a general principle concerning degree of effort required for…

This discussion of the types of risks associated with military aircrew training and the varieties of training devices and techniques currently utilized to minimize those risks includes an examination of flight trainer simulators and complex mission simulators for coping with military aviation hazards. Four references are listed. (Author/MER)

Three contrasting schools of learning theory are briefly described and then related to training methods. The methods are behaviorist, humanistic, and cognitivist. The author concludes with the thought that no one theory is right for all training activity, and if a particular theory works, use it. (CT)