This research was undertaken to determine whether monitoring by peers, self, or teacher would produce the most effective contingency management program. (RC)

Described is a 10-week inservice training course in behavior modification for 10 special educators. (CL)

The students engaged in procedures with each other that were similar to those used with real clients. (Editor/KE)

High- and low-anxiety groups performed a learning task after receiving either achievement-orienting or neutral instructions. While the results showed an overall superiority of low- to high-test-anxiety groups, there was a significant Test Anxiety x Instructions interaction. The results are interpreted in terms of attentional blocks that…

While the notion of "training as a therapeutic treatment" is a popular one and a relatively new development in the field, the authors dip into the past to give a broader perspective on psychotherapy as an educational process in their extensive review of this literature. (Author)

Examines the relationship between locus of control, using both a unidimensional and multidimensional approach, and completion and success in a weight reduction class. (Author)

Revised version of paper presented at the annual meeting of the Adult Education Association (Philadelphia, Penn., November 1967).

Based upon the author's doctoral dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1967).

Based on a PhD dissertation submitted by the author to the faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University.