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Training materials are beginning to be developed, packaged and (sometimes) evaluated for use by behavioral professionals to train nonprofessionals teaching and care-giving skills; however, economic factors in many programs require that non-professional staff be trained by their non-professional predecessors. To evaluate the function of training material built into an infant day care system, an experimental design was developed to efficiently analyze the transmission of skills from one worker to the next across several "generations" of workers. When staff members were simply instructed to train their replacement "until they knew their job," each successive generation of worker was markedly less accurate than the last; however, when explicit training materials were available to the staff members, high accuracy was consistently maintained across successive generations of workers. This "generation design" requires only as few as eight subjects for an experimental demonstration of the adequacy of the training materials for transmitting skills across successive generations of staff. (Author)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert