Seeing its role as one of stimulating, guiding, and coordinating training activities rather than providing central training facilities, three programs have been developed by the Air Transport and Travel Industry Training Board: (1) an occupational program, (2) a company program, and (3) an industry program. (MW)

Unless the profession (of psychology) attends to standards for continuing education, structure and program, any move to force practitioners into undertaking continuing education activities may push them into collecting credits for attending insignificant and irrelevant programs that have no impact upon practice. (Author)

The purpose of the third conference for State Education Agency (SEA) personnel was informative exchange relating to the goals, selection, and training of educational linking agents. The linking agent was considered as a possible solution to the problem of bridging the gap between educational research and classroom practice. Topics considered…

Six school district case studies are contained in this appendix to the report of a project that studied the relationships between processes and outcomes of the implementation of career education programs in six diverse school districts located throughout the country. Each case study gives background information on the local education agency prior…

The 10 journal articles and documents annotated in this bibliography cover various aspects of the controversy provoked by the emergence of the back-to-basics movement. Several attempt to define the movement and to place it in political and educational context. One paper reports statistics on its growth. Several sources delineate the movement's…

In 1970 the Ohio State University Evaluation Center was funded by the Office of Education to design, operationalize, and implement a Model Training Project in Educational Evaluation. Of central importance was the generation of high quality, transportable instructional systems which were the responsibility of the Evaluation Center's Instructional…

Levels of use of the innovation represent behaviors demonstrated by individuals as they grow in the process of innovation implementation. Eight levels of use have been defined, ranging from lack of knowledge about the innovation through highly sophisticated, impact-oriented use. Operational definitions include seven categories of adopter knowledge…

This booklet contains games ideas, methods, and materials used, adapted, developed, and found successful by teachers of handicapped children. (JD)

Ten junior high schools and ten senior highs--among which were six city and fourteen suburban schools--in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were studied; their principals responded to a preliminary questionnaire and an "Organizational Health Description Questionnaire" was administered to all certified personnel at general faculty meetings. (JM)

An educational performance contracting project illustrates difficulties of satisfactory implementation as intended when examining climate for the experiment, its design and results, and problems of carrying out the project. (Author/ND)

Playcentres assist women with an established role (home) and with an emerging role (work) and help women find status in society. (Published by New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Education House, 178-182 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand.) (Author)

The problems with which peer counselors are most effective are identified, paraprofessional training is described, and the professional and paraprofessional roles are clarified. The wider effect of such a program on the university and the program participants is discussed. (Author)

The paper's proposition is that many "overtly behavioristic" innovations in teacher education (performance-based education, microteaching, microsupervision, and microcounseling) are not in conflict with the humanistic approach; the critical need for understanding and application of the construct of intentionality demands that humanists…