A comprehensive undergraduate engineering program must provide opportunities for the application of theoretical concepts to the solution of realistic engineering problems. As digital systems and computer engineering concepts are integrated into the undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum, many departments are revising their laboratory…

The teaching protocol Encouragement, which emphasizes simple verbal praise, specific praise, and the use of student ideas for motivational reinforcement, was selected for testing. The protocol was tested in a 2-week graduate workshop to determine the extent to which a group of experienced teachers could, upon completion of the protocol training…

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)

It appears from this study that volunteers may be largely self-selected in regard to social skills, and further training may not be necessary. The study thus lends some support to those who have argued that the success of nonprofessionals has much to do with their natural'' social skills. (Author)

Delegates to a community leadership laboratory found their skills in organizing, forming coalitions and perceiving power relationships'' tested when the staff became the unresponsive power group''. (Author/SP)

Characteristics that industrial laboratory employers desire in science graduates are the ability to think, to achieve objectives, to communicate, interdisciplinary interests, energy and enthusiasm, and proper attitudes toward and understanding of industrial research. (CP)

Reviews studies published between 1964-1968 on laboratory training in human relations and its use and relationship to the improvement of organizational effectiveness. (LN)

Utilizing structured laboratory situation and intervention approach, role playing children were trained to behave differently in each of these situations in an effort to determine possible effects upon the mothers. Differences in mothers' reinforcing behavior and teaching style were noted in response to the children's changing behaviors. (Authors)

Describes a training program which sought to train a staff of mental health professionals to function in different ways in a reorganized urban mental health system. (AN)

Testing shows technical students do better working out lab experiments either individually or in pairs rather than in larger groups. Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (Editor/GB)

Describes how small engine repair and marketing can be merged into a venture for the student to earn-and-learn while pursuing a course in power mechanics instruction. (GR)

In laboratory training, the systematic use of feedback as a learning mechanism, along with strategies to involve the participants, constitute major departures from more classic teaching-learning techniques. (EB)

Presents a concise review of the relevant literature on small laboratory groups and their supposed contribution to moral growth; consideration of the cognitive-developmental approach to relationships between moral thought and moral action; and a description of the questions, instruments, and procedures that provided the framework for the reported…

Discusses the viability of cognitive apprenticeship for learning science in relation to findings from an investigation of a research project involving high school students working in a university chemical engineering laboratory under the mentorship of a university-based scientist. Reports that students were empowered to seek empirically viable…