This article describes and provides examples of the three major training modalities currently in vogue. The strengths and weaknesses of each are examined and then integrated to build a recommended model for future training efforts. (Author)

In a report condensing the findings of a study, "Training and Entry into Union Construction", it is emphasized that the apprenticeship system constitutes the best form of training now used in the building trades. (Author/AG)

If the organization trains by objectives, then allowing the trainee more freedom in the use of his study time, in the training methods he uses, and in the sequence in which he studies material can result in both more effective and more efficient training. (MW)

Microteaching, using videotape equipment as a training aid, may enhance the skills and effectiveness of trainees in Manpower Development Training centers, allows the trainee to learn through manipulative experience and to receive immediate feedback regarding his performance, and provides program coordinators with a means of evaluating the…

Three different approaches to the problem of linking educational knowledge producers and knowledge users are studied in this paper. First, data are reported describing the knowledge generation and knowledge communication behavior of twelve successful innovators. Second, characteristics of twelve programs, conceived to train persons as change…

The training of psychotherapists has been an ongoing process in psychiatry and clinical psychology. Recently, however, a growing demand to operationalize competence criteria to enable independent evaluation of therapists' skills in specifically defined psychotherapies has occurred. To examine this phenomenon, evaluation procedures were developed…

This paper reviews data on one possible measure for evaluating the effectiveness of training for maintenance technicians, i.e., the unnecessary removal of non-faulty parts during actions taken to identify and correct malfunctions in equipment. Such data may be found in the maintenance management data systems of the military services. It was found…

The results of a year-long involvement in providing tailored professional development experiences for linking agents in the Northwest Reading Consortium is presented. This report is divided into five sections. A brief description of the collaboration between the Consortium and the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory is presented in the first…