Enumerates ten variables, grouped under external and internal influences. (SP)

Discusses shortcomings in measuring results, training methods, and management interest in management and supervisory training and suggests how to make training more effective. Training Technology is a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

Article shows how programmed learning can be a very effective method of training casual workers in a process industry. (Editor)

Toronto-Dominion Bank has innovated a banklab to train future administration officers. The use of graded steps allows past trainees to teach new trainees, thus reinforcing learned knowledge and aiding social relationships. Training time is cut to six months without any disruption. (RR)

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether instructional behavior learned during a series of simulated teaching experiences using peers as students would transfer to a setting in which real" pupils were students. (Author)

How to change a negative training lesson into a positive lesson through the use of student behavior, student ability, and student attitudes, by redesigning the lesson to emphasize and capitalize on recognition of positive attributes of the students. (RB)

A report on a training planning process with measurement at both input and output stages that has a built-in feedback which allows it to be self-evaluating. (RB)

Deals with the need for an accurate and careful selection of training materials by the use of a check list. (EK)

Chief executive officers and recruitment personnel participate in a study to pinpoint what can be done to upgrade the educational preparation of students readying for finance careers. (Author)

The issue is devoted to seven articles about a study of trainer effectiveness. It includes the approach to the study, major findings, a case study, aspects of trainer effectiveness, an approach to looking at trainer effectiveness, and conclusions. (JOW)

Describes the Administration on Aging (AoA) plans and initiatives. Education and training program efforts of AoA include the development and implementation of comprehensive and coordinated community-based services systems, with special emphasis on providing services to vulnerable elderly, and advocacy of AoA aimed at advancing the well-being of…

Explores concerns over the direction the field of organizational behavior is developing. Karl Weick identifies approaches to theory building that are misleading. Peter Frost identifies blind spots in teaching and application. Walter Nord compares both papers. The authors offer their views on directions in which the field might move. (Author/BEF)

Evaluation research is a new area of interest, and provokes many questions about the appropriate direction for its development. Whether it should be an independent discipline or a specialty within other fields is argued. Approaches to training so as to permit development of a model are suggested. (Author/GK)

Investigated the teachability of 11 consultation-related skills. Concluded that experimental group subjects significantly outperformed the control group subjects in Verbal Consultation on the posttest but experimental and control groups did not differ significantly in Nonverbal Consultation. (Author)