Reported are two approaches to inservice teacher training. In the defect approach, inservice training is viewed as compensating for teacher weaknesses. The approach advocated is the growth approach designed to help teachers become more sensitive to and improve upon what's happening in their classroom. (Author/DS)

The major issues in in-service education concern the development of programs based on multilevel, cross-validated assessments of needs. (JMF)

Several in-service models are presented including a provision of services model, job maintenance model, personal development model, and three problem-solving models. (JMF)

A joint effort in inservice education between the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education and the Illinois Vocational Association (IVA) created ten diversified mini workshops which were conducted at the 1973 IVA convention in Chicago. The overall, average participant rating for the workshop was 3.76 on a one-to-four continuum. (EA)

Describes a workship designed to help counselors learn to use various major behavioral techniques within their own situation. (Author)

Evidence gathered in a study of 72 engineering managers in a large midwestern industrial firm indicates that there is no consensus among subordinates and superordinates on what good management is. The 72 managers were scored by a panel of top management personnel, by immediate supervisors (using the firm's management-by-objectives rating system),…

In the general areas of in-service training and curriculum development, a significant level of innovation has occurred over the past decade. New and promising instructional models have been designed and are being implemented that offer alternatives to the traditional models used for the public schools. The purpose of this study is to identify and…

This article reports the results of a survey to determine the topics that members of the American Sociological Association (ASA) most wanted to see included in the organization's Teaching Services Workshop Program. The 80-item survey, filled out on a computer at the 1985 and 1986 ASA convention, was completed by 246 persons. (JDH)

Gives statistics on the number of hours devoted to formal training for employees in various job categories. Also examines those courses most often and least often offered to employees across various industries. (JB)

To determine the extent to that University-Affiliated Facilities were directing training activities toward groups other than registered college and university students, data were collected from 23 interdisciplinary centers. Presentations which addressed essentials of appropriate programing for the handicapped occurred most frequently, with parents…

Discusses a study to identify and verify the professional competencies needed by extension agents in Pennsylvania and when these competencies should be learned. (JOW)