The Delphi Technique, a needs assessment device providing a means for gathering opinions, is described, and its origin and limitations are discussed. Application of the technique in adult education in Massachusetts identified the needs of teachers and administrators in adult learning centers prior to workshop planning. (AG)

The article presents an argument supporting the validity of using sub-standard dialects as a starting point to aid continuing education teachers teaching standard English. The advantages of the dialect approach are considered, and suggestions for distinguishing among dialects, assessing them, and using them are presented in conclusion. (Author/AG)

An inservice program was effective in demonstrating that programs planned by the participants to meet their needs as they perceive them are received with enthusiasm and are effective in positive attitude formation. Questionnaire results are tabulated. (AG)

Four studies are described to demonstrate that low-level expectations of student ability become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Adult educators inherit students whose self-concept may have been formed by oppressive, self-destructive expectations and are cautioned against perpetuating discrimination and destructive labeling practices. (AG)

New River Community College, Dublin, Virginia, has a continuing education philosophy based upon the understanding that education is never complete. They view themselves, and similar institutions, as true community education and cultural centers. (AG)

The parental role in guiding children in vocational choices gives rise to the need for courses for parents about vocational aspects of human growth and development. A project was designed to update, educate, and reeducate parents of elementary and secondary school age children to meet the need. (AG)

Citing reasons for the higher motivation among southern black students than northern black students, Parker examines the influence of the black colleges in the South in that context. He proposes making education and the total northern school system, especially continuing education, relevant to blacks to achieve greater motivation. (AG)

Florida Memorial College's curriculum model of internship and pre-internship programs is the answer to the needs of its constituency and perhaps the answer to the needs of black colleges throughout the United States. Continuing education combines with an intensive field experience program in a departure from the traditional educational patterns.…

Provided are procedures for employment experience simulation in the form of a grocery store game for special teachers to use in vocational training of educable mentally retarded students. (MC)

Suggested to keep pace with social and educational change are special education (SE) innovations that include addition of epidemiologic to psychometric retardation models, studies on the ecology of early retardation and abnormal development, SE planning based on a larger population unit, and an integrated SE configuration. (Author/MC)

A 12-month project for 27 institutionalized, severely retarded children who functioned at the early childhood level involved training teachers in behavior modification methods and employing a skill center curriculum encompassing motor skills, vocabulary, communication and social behavior. (Author/MC)

Described is development and standardization of the Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory with a representative sample of 6,400 educable mentally retarded males and females in public secondary day schools and state residential institutions from all geographical, urban and rural regions of the U.S. (Author/MC)

Discussed is development of a manipulative system which used dots on numerials for teaching basic mathematical concepts to mentally or variously handicapped children in kindergarten through grade 2. (MC)

Fourteen college juniors in special education tutored a small group of adolescent trainable mentally retarded (TMR) students during an 8-week period to determine whether tutorial experience would increase self confidence for teaching TMR students and to compare self with external ratings of teaching ability. (MC)

Fifty-two special teachers in training examined a simple version (illustrations, differentiated sections, large headings) and a complex (single-spaced undifferentiated test) version of a teachers manual to determine effects of manual design and complexity level on comprehension. (MC)