The Trainee Performance Sample, a vocational skills assessment instrument, was revised to enhance content validity and utility in making vocational skill learning placements for severely retarded individuals. The Trainee Performance Sample employs a process measurement approach; i.e., each of the 30 test items (a variety of benchwork tasks) includes both ...

A sample of 67 female optometry students was tested on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). Their vocational interests were compared with those of women in 57 occupations and classified on vocational and basic interest scales. There were no interest scales in which the female optometry students scored above average, including ...

Whether operations training reduces time and errors in the acquisition of specific vocational tasks was investigated. An operation is a particular response class that occurs in the presence of a consistent stimulus. Subjects were mentally retarded vocational-rehabilitation clients in a sheltered workshop. Each subject was trained in either mechanical operations ...

The new Octopus programs SARGON and DELTA are described. The SARGON program makes possible the arbitrary distribution of a maximum number of 66 test locations with a resolution of up to 0.2 degrees across the 60 degrees visual field. Eighty user-defined self-created programs can be permanently stored and recalled later ...

The ability to assess oneself in general practice has to be learned. The ideal time to develop this ability is during vocational training. The lessons learned may be some of the most important before entering general practice itself.As a new approach to this problem, a self-assessment book has been devised. ...

In many countries there are minimum standards for entry into vocational training programs, but until now there has been no instrument for determining whether retarded applicants possess the motor skills required to enter and complete such programs. To construct such an instrument, experts representing most of the skilled vocations in ...

This paper describes the work done by ASBAH in the field of social independence training since November 1977. The aims of the training scheme are to encourage young people toward accepting responsibility for the course of their own lives, and to prepare them to take fuller advantage of the opportunities ...

A training program for pharmacy technician specialists is described. The 200-hour pharmacy technician specialist training program consists of 20 hours of management seminars and conferences and 180 hours of on-the-job training. The program educates inhouse-trained technicians to assume more specialized tasks and supervisory roles. The behavioral objectives for the training ...

Adolescents with cystic fibrosis were compared with normal adolescents of the same age and educational grade on several measures of vocational development and adjustment. The cystic fibrosis group in ages 12--16 and in grades 7, 8, and 9 scored lower than their normal counterparts in measures of vocational and educational ...

Investigated relationships between personality traits and vocational interests. Cattell's (Research and Consultations Center of Educational Personnel, 1976) CAQ Part I and the Ramak interest inventory (Meir, 1975) based upon Roe's (1956) occupational classification system were administered to a sample of 397 university applicants. Canonical Correlation Analysis and Smallest Space Analysis ...

Students with disabilities are now placed in regular industrial arts and vocational training programs in secondary schools. Vocational educators agree that teachers need assistance in serving these students with special needs. This paper explores the contributions school occupational therapists can make to vocational education for handicapped students. Recommendations are included ...

As overview of the future role of specialization in optometry is presented, and topics such as the necessity and desirability of optometric specialties, certification of specialists, referrals to specialists, training of specialists, and the impact of public opinion, governmental programs, expanded use of the optometric auxiliaries, and advances in technology ...

Computer-assisted metaphase analysis for prenatal diagnosis can be economically performed by a preexisting hardware-software system. The program can be run by technician-level (i.e. nonspecialist) personnel who can opt for the automatic operational mode for good quality metaphases or for the semimanual mode for problem metaphases (numerous superpositions, artifacts, etc.). The ...

Seven severely retarded adults from a small rural developmental centre were treated for in appropriate vocational behaviour in the centre's workshop. Target types of behaviour were accurate and efficient performance of three types of operationally defined work behaviour collectively called work skills. Specific inappropriate behaviour for individual residents included chin ...

A series of visits to selected vocational training schemes revealed a wide variation in attendance by trainees, content of release courses, use of teaching methods, and participation in planning by trainees. The principal criticism made by ex-trainees was the absence of enough teaching on practice management.I suggest that it is ...

A medical center is using a monthly videotaped television news program to effectively inform its departments and personnel about one another, to provide them with special recognition, and to help nurture their esprit de corps. For these reasons, staff participation, especially by nonsupervisory personnel, both in producing and in appearing ...

This report on the Michigan Youth Services boys camping program suggests substantial attitudinal and behavioral improvement by all groups of participants. Squads strategically "mixed" with achievers, pre-delinquents, expelled/suspended, and wards of the court attended an intensive encampment for one week at Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Emphasis was placed on exposure ...

Former clients (107) of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission were evaluated to determine the reasons for their return to the Commission a second time. Clients returned to obtain physical restoration services, employment or training such as in a vocational school or college. Clients were given a vocational interview (the Goldberg Scale) ...

The authors describe military optometry clinic personnel problems prior to 1971 which led to the creation of the Air Force Optometry Specialist/Technician career field. The optometry Specialist, whose civilian counterpart is the optometric assistant/technician, receives a highly intensive 9 week resident course at the USAF School of Health Care Sciences. ...

A survey of institutions in Michigan utilizing megavoltage equipment demonstrated a shortage of certified radiation therapy technologists. The low number of such personnel who can be trained in the available approved programs in the state is barely sufficient to maintain the present level. Projections show a continued shortage and a ...

Members of the Indiana Optometric Association were asked to rate each of the duties which Indiana University optometric technician students are currently taught to perform. Rated on a four point scale from most desirable to undesirable, the duties deemed most important by respondents were those having to do with the ...

An assumption that habilitated retarded persons had higher social competence than nonhabilitated persons was investigated by comparing 65 discharged residents of Lynchburg Training School and Hospital who had completed vocational training with 60 residents matched in age and IQ. The results obtained from the hospital record revealed that the habilitated ...

I have described the recent history of the development of anaesthetic technicians in the Province of Quebec. Anaesthetic technicians will have the same training program as inhalation therapists. This program is organized through the CEGEP (College D' Enseignement General et Professionnel) system in Quebec. The Association of Anesthetists of the ...

Mothers at inner city clinics differ from middle-class suburban mothers with private pediatricians in their attitudes and expectations regarding toilet training, such as the ideal age to initiate bladder and bowel training, ideal age for completion of toilet training, response to the child who soils after a program of toilet ...

Cardiovascular Roentgenology: A Validated Program, by Charles M. Nice, Jr., 260 pp, 98 illus, paper, $9.35, New York: Hoeber Medical Division, Harper & Row, 1967.With the mass of increasing knowledge and the shortage of skilled teachers, programmed texts are assuming more importance in general education. Programmed medical texts are not ...

The desperate shortage of librarians could be alleviated by training library technicians to work under the supervision of qualified librarians. Just as the training and accreditation of practical nurses have elevated standards of the registered nurses and freed them from routine duties, so could the training and accreditation of library ...