Structured Learning Training (SLT), a program geared towards fostering assertion skills in unassertive adolescents, appears to increase adolescents' levels of social initiative with both teachers and peers. Teachers, parents, or peers conduct SLT sessions, which employ a combination of audio-taped and live modeling, rehearsal, feedback with social reinforcement, and the practicing of assertive behaviors, among other components. An experimental evaluation of the program, based on a sample of 90 predominantly white adolescents, found that youth who participated in SLT were more likely than non-participants to report increased levels of social initiative and to exhibit higher levels of social initiative during in vivo problem situations (Pentz, 1980).