Results showed that clients demonstrate the most appropriate behavior when staff receive feedback concerning their use of behavior modification techniques. Staff did not require the typical daily supervision but only random monitoring in their use of these techniques. (Author)

Discusses a study conducted to define costs of continuing education programing and to examine the productivity of professional program staff. Three unit cost factors were compared: budgeting on a per program, per participant, and per instructional unit basis. (Author/JOW)

Discusses the development and maintenance of a competent student affairs staff. A brief review is made of the trends in higher education. Current competencies of most student affairs professionals and the status of graduate student personnel preparation programs in meeting these needs are discussed. (Author)

Discusses the importance of being responsive to personal needs of the mental health worker. It is hypothesized that, for mental health workers to function at optimal levels of effectiveness, their own needs for recognition, support, and enjoyment must be attended to. (Author)

Notes some past and present recruitment and training programs, and argues that if the public broadcasting system is to reach its potential, the industry must invest more resources in the recruitment and nurturing of talent. (CMV)

The author catalogs her criticisms of inservice practices that provide no meaningful help to the individual teacher, such as general system-wide events, sessions planned and taught by those outside the classroom, programs with inadequate funding or rewards for participation, and programs that offer no follow-up classroom assistance. (SJL)

Examines some basic principles of evaluation and explains how school administrators can use performance evaluation as one way of making it possible for employees to know that they are achieving and that results are being obtained. (MLF)

Good staff morale is crucial to the operation of an effective educational program. Suggestions are made for principals. (Author/MLF)

Parental involvement in education is shown to extend to the areas of teacher education with recommendations for greater preservice preparation for dealing with parents and planning for staff development with cooperative programs for parents and teachers. (JMF)

The training, experience, and temperament of professional school staff does not prepare them to judge the strengths or weaknesses of school programs or make recommendations for improvement. Suggestions for priorities in teacher training institutions to improve this situation are presented. (JMF)

Discusses differences between research and evaluation and identifies needed research areas: learning strategies, success and failure, transfer of training (learning), human resources development (HRD) staffing and placement, and HRD attitudes. Outlines research competency areas: develop research designs, design and validate data-gathering…

Outlines a four-phase approach that a yearbook business staff can use to interest the student body in buying copies of the yearbook. (Second of a four-part article.) (GT)

A successful effort to raise reading achievement in the Denver schools illustrates key factors in educational change. (Author)

Contains a selection of abstracts from the ERIC system concerning management development programs in community colleges. (MB)

A hypothetical urban school system is described to illustrate a method of response to the issues of equal educational opportunity, desegregation, staff training and retraining, increasing urban costs, emerging power groups, bureaucratic stagnation, decentralization, and student growth. (MB)