The Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher-training institute held at Mississippi State University, was a joint effort of the Mississippi State Department of Education and Mississippi State University. The main efforts of the instruction were directed toward the preparation of teams of teacher-trainers who would responsible for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of local preservice and inservice training. This report contains: (1) edited presentations by the consultants and participants on testing in ABE education, student evaluation of the ABE program, evaluation of ABE materials, student recruitment, personnel relationships, a discussion of what new teachers want to know about ABE, and the development of teacher-trainer teams in South Carolina; (2) edited reports from four inservice training teams; and (3) the results of an evaluation of the institute which includes an evaluation of the biographical characteristics of participants, weekly evaluations by participants expressing their feelings about the content and presentation of specific topics, some of the major problems confronting ABE in Mississippi, problems encountered in local programs, general impressions of the institute, and the results of the Kropp-Verner Rating of the institute. Included are four appendixes: institute staff, participants, schedules, and sample materials. (BP)