If academically disadvantaged adults are to succeed in learning, they must be proficient in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Presents the major conceptual considerations implemented at the University of Akron (Ohio) in conducting laboratories which provide academically disadvantaged adults an opportunity to practice these skills. (EM)

The authors developed, over a one-year period of time, a Human Interaction Laboratory designed to allow participants to deal with several interpersonal issues: the intrapersonal self, the interpersonal self, communication skill development, trust formation, conflict management, confrontation techniques, developing feedback systems, working…

Purpose of the study was to determine whether teacher-student interaction and the effectiveness of using certain teaching strategies were functions of selected personality characteristics of the laboratory teachers. (Author)

Compares three popular approaches to experiential learning with respect to purpose, philosophy, format, leadership, language, and strategy. Each is uniquely designed to elicit highly emotional involvement, confessions of failure in the past and immediate present, and attempts to communicate with integrity. (JMF)

This guide presents the primary approaches, tools, and techniques utilized by the New Careers Training Laboratory (NCTL) staff to provide skills in training and to conduct agency task analyses. Much of the technical information has been taken from an earlier NCTL publication by Tita Beal, "A New Careers Guide for Career Development…

This booklet describes the learning experiences that take place in and as a result of a learning laboratory. Part one presents a brief history of the group dynamics movement, focusing especially upon the history of the National Training Laboratory of the National Education Association. Some significant characteristics of laboratory learning are…

To help high school and area vocational center distributive education teacher-coordinators carry out methods of project-oriented and project laboratory instruction, Western Michigan University conducted three one-day seminars for 40 distributive educators. Presentations were: (1) "Implementation of Project Laboratories" by J.A. Daenzer, (2)…

The evaluation and placement of rehabilitation clients has been problematic. In addition to physical and emotional problems, these individuals suffer from a variety of unique handicaps. With this in mind, a program was developed to assess the present abilities and future potential of such a client to perform certain work tasks. Subjects were…

The author explores the validity of sensitivity training for professional social work education with its inherent concern for the relation between experiential and theoretical learning. The various streams in the sensitivity training movement are surveyed and the laboratory concept identified as particularly relevant. A human relations laboratory,…

The laboratory method has institutionalized itself in the larger social system, and an investigation of how this came about provides an important case study of social intervention. Uses of the method's intrinsic "change-agent" concept are illustrated, and particular aspects of the growth of the movement are examined. (Author)

A Kansas City community college offers a conglomerate of skill training programs without cost to the people who most need them. (Author)

High school distributive education retail laboratories (school stores) provide practical experiences in an actual store environment. The manual presents information to assist coordinators in creating a distributive education retail laboratory or for improving an existing operation. Sections include preparing proposals to start a school store,…

Educational personnel having major responsibilities for research and development were invited to attend three one-week institutes to receive training in the use of selected management tools. instructional topics such as systems and management analysis, and definitive studies of management information systems (MIS), program planning budgetary…

This document describes the design, operation, and field-testing of an innovative model for undergraduate teacher education at West Virginia University. Emphasizing the need for students to translate cognitive learning into performance at the time each concept is first acquired, the model incorporates such innovative modes of instruction as the…

Provided are samples of three experience-based career education (EBCE) experience-site learning guides. Each sample is organized into four basic parts. The first part describes the nature of the site (e.g., name of site, address, lunch arrangements, special regulations). The second part gives a brief description of the different sections of the…