Training of specialists raises the question of degree of specialization desired in light of the need for specialists to be flexible, self-sufficient, and have a broad base of knowledge. (AV)

A simulation of a buying service for a number of retail stores, termed FLAIR, is described as a flexible instructional vehicle meeting the needs of business procedures trainees attending the Southern California Regional Occupational Center. Training objectives, office organization, and the importance of real-world simulation in developing…

Article outlines four basic strategies for managing change and prompts the reader to take a mid-1973 quiz on his goals and training objectives for next year. (Editor/RK)

This description of the Child Care Training Project in Michigan includes information on the home child care givers and identifies areas in which aides believed they needed improvement. Gives definitions of outstanding, adequate, and inadequate care and specifies problems and successes of the program's participants. (ST)

How membership in the Common Market will affect the vocational education programs of the member states; objectives and recommendations are listed. (SP)

Commissioner Marland discusses the cooperative roles community colleges and the federal government must maintain to make career education effective. (Editor)

Provides some simple principles and an easy to use information format to substantially increase the effectiveness of on-the-job training. (AN)

Includes five appendixes illustrating the validation methods discussed. (SP)

Author explains organization development and tells why individually-oriented training is ineffective unless integrated within the context of an overall organization improvement. (Author/SP)

A look at some of Great Britain's military training programs. (AK)

Describes a study that was the first stage of a project to evaluate a management training course designed especially for a group of research scientists and senior technical staff employed by several government and quasi-government organizations engaged in scientific and industrial research. (NRJ)

Empathic sensitivity did increase after completion of the course and increased over time to a level comparable with a normative group of experienced clinicians. Mortality and selection effects were minimal. No significant relationship emerged between verbal intelligence and empathic sensitivity. (Author)

Gives specific recommendations for the effective use of behavioral objectives in planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating training. (SK)

Argues that training improves whenever the trainer keeps the focus learner-centered instead of egocentric, and that the learner's literacy competency and the training objective are the two variables that should determine which training presentation mode to select. A model showing these interrelationships is presented. (Author/JD)

Results of a survey of training directors in large firms indicate that the question of what is the best method of training only makes sense when it is asked in tandem with the question "for which training objective?" (Author/IRT)