35
35
Sep 24, 2012
09/12
by
Basta, Nicholas, 1954-
texts
eye 35
favorite 1
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139)
Topics: Advice on careers & achieving success, Educational & careers guidance, Technology &...
17
17
Feb 10, 2012
02/12
by
Challenger, James E
texts
eye 17
favorite 1
comment 0
Topics: Advice on careers & achieving success, Careers guidance, Work & labour, Careers - General,...
110
110
Nov 7, 2012
11/12
by
Cleek, Corey
texts
eye 110
favorite 0
comment 0
Topics: Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works, Christian Life, Professional...
A discussion of discourse patterns in the professional interactions of lawyers and physicians suggests that these encounters are programmatic exchanges to which the psycholinguistic rules of processing and inference can be applied. In these professions, the constraints of normal discourse patterns interact with the conventions of giving and getting information in monologues or interviews. It is proposed that discourse analysis be used in such areas to design patterned language protocols for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Communication, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries,...
One criticism of professionals in public service is that they resist changing the occupational norms that would decrease their power even though it would benefit their clients. In an examination of the relationship between professionalism and change, data were collected from elementary school principals, local school board members, and lay members of community health planning. Principals were slightly less inclined than school board members to accept change. The least professional of the three...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavior Standards, Boards of Education,...
A four-part discussion on cultural sensitivity and good listening skills in development professionals is presented. It is noted that there is much in their educational regimen which militates against developing these habits of mind. It is hypothesized that much of this problem resides in the hidden cultural meanings of professionalism in general and that many of these hidden meanings remain unchallenged by educational curricula in development studies. Much can be done at the curricular level to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Credibility, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Listening...
This essay examines ethical considerations in the nurse patient relationship, in particular the relationship between "professional morality" and the nurse's professional identity in the role of advocate for doctors, patients, and hospitals. A discussion of ethics and professionals explores professional ethics, the need for such ethics, and their expression in licensing and certification, where it is recognized that consumer interests are primary. The paper then expands on the notion...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advocacy, Certification, Codes of Ethics, Consumer Protection, Curriculum...
This report presents issues which have been identified as affecting the preparation of women for professional and managerial careers. Issues examined in the first section, counseling, are educational and psychological skills; assessment of skills, abilities, opportunities, and realities; specialization for professional positions; assessment of bias and discrimination, costs versus benefits, and upward mobility; and using role models, linkages, networks, "old girl" systems, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Affirmative Action, Child Care, Counseling, Educational...
"Attrition in the trades," by Tom Karmel, Patrick Lim and Josie Misko, analyses whether attrition--the gradual reduction or weakening of a workforce--occurs more amongst tradespeople than professionals, and if this is to the detriment of the supply of tradespeople. The authors use data from the Australian Labour Mobility Survey in 2008 and 1994. This provides a useful comparison because in 2008 the labour market was in a good state--but the economic crisis was on the horizon--but in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Turnover, Skilled Occupations, Professional Occupations, Occupational Mobility,...
The first section discusses the expected on-the-job capabilities of school psychologists in relation to preservice training. The major topics addressed include: diagnosis; consultation; therapeutic intervention; and administration, supervision, and relationships. The second section identifies the capabilities required of school psychologists and administrators of school psychological services. It focuses, on the psychoeducational diagnostic capabilities needed by school psychologists, on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Job Skills, Job Training, Professional Continuing Education,...
In a survey carried out in March 1967, questionnaires were sent to about 39 percent of the lawyers in New York State to find out their reactions to the TV series 'BEHIND THE LAW'. Of seven percent of the lawyers returning the questionnaires; one half had seen at least one or two of the shows, and 12 percent had viewed ten or more. Almost all of the respondents thought the programs served a specific need for New York attorneys, and three-fourths of them thought that TV is either 'better than' or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Educational Media, Educational Television, Instructional Programs,...
Shortages in the trades are again becoming a prominent issue as Australia emerges from the Global Financial Crisis. The existence of shortages puts the immediate focus on the apparent inability of the training system to supply sufficient skilled tradespersons, but shortages in an occupation are as much related to the rate at which individuals leave the occupation as the rate at which the occupation attracts new entrants. Hence, this paper which focuses on attrition in the trades, using...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Turnover, Skilled Occupations, Professional Occupations, Occupational Mobility,...
As an area of research, instructional communication has struggled to map out the role of communication in the teaching process. More recently, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) movement has emphasized the importance of applying the same systematic, informed rigor in the teaching that educators do in their research pursuits. Both concepts share considerable overlap and stem from the desire to improve education. But how can one advance the SOTL beyond buzzword status and put it into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Scholarship, Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Intellectual...
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent career plans reported in PISA 2006. Its main focus is on the differences in the status and area of employment expected by girls and boys in high school. In almost all countries, girls lead boys in their interest in non-manual, high status professional occupations. This can be seen as a vertical dimension of gender segregation in occupational preferences. Students also differ by gender in selecting particular fields of employment within...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries, Males, Career...
In June 1972, the Research Medical Center School of Nursing was awarded a Capitation Grant for approximately $66,000 under the Nurse Training Act of 1971. This report focuses on one of three projects delineated under this grant: Training for new roles, types, or levels of nursing personnel. The purpose of the project was to gather data relative to the post-graduation vocational and educational activities and future plans of the graduates for the five years 1968-1972. Part 1 of the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Opportunities, Careers, Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development,...
A large national sample of men and women college seniors were asked for their perceptions of five careers: medicine, law, college teaching and research, elementary and senior school teaching, and business. The responses of men and women seniors to 18 items repeated for each field showed that they held different images of these fields. The images are described and compared. The most striking findings are that women find school teaching more appealing and challenging than do men, in most...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Counseling, College Seniors, College Students,...
The performance of all 200,000 examinees on the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE) in fiscal year 1975, its first year of administration, is presented in l0 graphs and l00 tables. The data describe the ratings obtained by six groups of competitors: by series of written test, by Veteran Preference status, by Outstanding Scholar status, by sex, by current federal employment, by geographic region, and by college major. A second set of tables shows the interaction of Veteran...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Government Employees,...
This paper discusses demands and challenges of being an educator with a disability and includes a review of the literature and an analysis of an interview with a leading educator with a disability. The paper opens with a discussion of the definitional issues and implications of the terms "handicap" and "disability." Literature on the role of the educator in today's society is reviewed, followed by a review of the challenges of being an educator with a disability. These...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Advocacy, Disabilities,...
A McGill University (Quebec, Canada) continuing education program of French language instruction for specific professions currently under development is described. The program is designed for non-native-speaking Canadians and international students, and emphasizes complete functional control of language skills rather than acquisition of conceptual knowledge and partial functional control of skills. Functions targeted include: initiating, sustaining, and concluding a professional interaction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advanced Courses, College Second Language Programs, Foreign Countries, French, Higher...
Through its cooperative education and industrial training program, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU) in the Philippines provides 250-800 hours of work-based education to students enrolled in 3-, 4-, and 5-year programs of training for such occupations as professional engineer, technologist, teacher, and technician. At the undergraduate level, cooperative education and industrial training are an integral part of DMMMSU's programs engineering, teacher education, and technician...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Education, Educational Benefits, Foreign Countries, Higher Education,...
The success of German firms' searches for qualified personnel to fill openings in skilled occupations was examined through a statistical analysis of data from the Institut fur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit's (IAB) establishment panel for 2000. An employer search model was used to explain the current German debate surrounding the additional demand for skilled labor. In the theoretical approach adopted, firms decided to use an optimal strategy for searching for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications, Foreign...
The program Performance Evaluation for Non-Teaching Professionals at the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome provides periodic assessments as required by institutional policy. The system is intended to establish a standard for judging quality of an employee's work and a rational and uniform basis for appraising performance, with the further objective of facilitating performance improvement, reevaluation of job functions, reappointment decisions, and promotions and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Due Process, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation...
This bibliography of 834 citations is an annual accounting of literature on collective bargaining in higher education and the professions for 1991. The research and design and methodology used in the preparation of this volume relied on computer searches of various databases and manual retrieval of other citations not available on database. Sources include books, monographs, dissertations, journals, periodicals, research and conference papers, and newspaper articles and are grouped into either...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Athletics, Collective Bargaining, College Administration,...
The typical undergraduate program in computer science includes an introduction to hardware and operating systems, file processing and database organization, data communication and networking, and programming. However, many graduates may lack the ability to integrate the concepts "learned" into a skill set and pattern of approaching problems that would enable then to fit easily into a business organization and to succeed in such an environment. This paper describes the nontechnical and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Employment Opportunities,...
This report is one of seven that identify major new and emerging technological advances expected to influence major vocational education program areas and to describe the programmatic implications in terms of skill-knowledge requirements, occupations most directly affected, and the anticipated diffusion rate. Chapter 1 considers technology as process, the relation of technology and productivity, and technology as the arbitrator of work. The first of three sections in chapter 2 presents the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Databases, Diffusion...
This guide is designed as a source of ideas and information for individuals and organizations interested in occupational alcoholism programs for the hard-to-reach work force. Following a brief overview of the problem and a report on progress in occupational alcoholism programming, a working definition of the hard-to-reach work force is offered; suggested criteria for defining this type of worker include amount of supervision, employment setting, and organizational affiliation. Programming...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcoholism, Demography, High Risk Persons, Labor Force, Professional Occupations,...
This bibliography of 886 citations is an annual accounting of the literature on collective bargaining in higher education and the professions for 1993. The research design and methodology used in the preparation of this volume relied on computer searches of various data bases, as well as manual retrieval of citations not available on data bases. Sources include books, monographs, dissertations, journals, periodicals, research and conference papers, and newspaper articles and are grouped into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Athletics, Collective Bargaining, College Administration,...
Differences between the earnings of men and women suggest that women are being paid less for doing the same job. Factors that attribute to the wage differences are (1) women are concentrated in those occupations which are less skilled and in which wages are relatively low, (2) women working on full-time schedules tend to work less overtime than men, (3) although women are as well educated as their male counterparts in terms of median years of schooling completed, there are differences in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background, Females, Income, Males, Occupations,...
Developed for the Spanish-speaking student at the beginning reader level (Level B), this booklet is one of three modules (Levels A, B, and C) in a curriculum unit on the school nurse. (The curriculum unit is one of a series of 12 curriculum units, each on a different occupation, designed to develop career awareness in migrant and non-migrant Spanish-speaking students at different reading levels, particularly in grades K-6.) The booklet is divided into three sections: (1) Teaching Unit, which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Awareness, Career Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language),...
A research project is described whose three major purposes were (1) to use data from the 1970 "Census of Population" to update, validate, and reinforce the findings of the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) studies made for the Negro Employment in the South (NES) Project. (The scope of those studies covered seven major southern SMSA's--Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, and New Orleans--and sought to determine and analyze the patterns of black...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Educational Experience,...
This paper explores the relationship between university-based professional education and society as viewed by the architectural profession. The problem under investigation is the extent to which university-based professional education has become disjointed and more university-referential, less interdependent, and less interactive with society, and how the connections between education, practice, and society are put under stress. First, the report presents an overview of the history of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Architectural Education, College Faculty, Cooperation,...
This article presents gender perspectives on the formation of the preschool teacher and the formation of a domain for education and child rearing of young children, commenting on the designation of the professional field of education as "female territory." The report uses the results from two Swedish studies: the first dealing with the period from 1900-1945 and the development of the new profession for caring and education along with its significance as a starting point for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Content Analysis,...
The author had two major goals in this paper. Firstly, he wanted to talk about what it means to be professional, and in particular, about how the claim to professionalism is established and how it is defended when under attack. Secondly he was concerned about the more elusive condition of paraprofessionalism. It is stated that although the ordinary counselor is able to counsel and present himself as a counselor, the counselor is not qualified merely by virtue of his excellence in counseling....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Objectives, Paraprofessional School...
Health care occupations are expected to be among the fastest growing professions in the next ten years. With such incredible growth expected in employment and wages, and with women's participation in the industry remaining strong, are women in the health care industry, particularly those in health care administration, experiencing a narrowing of the gender gap? This paper briefly reviews various theories of career success as they relate to the gender gap in executive level positions in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Services, Organizational Culture, Industry, Gender Differences, Leadership,...
The number of highly skilled Africans leaving their country of origin, many with PhDs, has reached disturbing proportions. Meanwhile, Africa spends billions per year to fill the capacity gaps that are created by the exodus of the highly skilled. In Africa, Ethiopia ranked first in terms of rate of loss of human capital. Many African governments are unable to match salaries or offer incentives to draw the highly skilled to return home in this context. The article focuses on the knowledge...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Human Capital, Developing Nations, Migration...
A large amount of professional interest has been focused upon the ambiguities and problems involved in the conduct of professional licensing and certification through examinations. What seems to be a simple problem on the surface, that being the policing of professionals for competence and the practice of conducting this policing so that it offers equal fairness to all, turns out to be a very complex problem involving unresolved conceptual, legal, and methodological issues particularly with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Certification, Nurses, Performance Tests, Predictive Validity, Professional...
This work is one of a series of monographs on the improvement of engineering education. This particular study was designed to determine: (1) the extent of individual engineers' involvement in continuing education; (2) factors pertaining to job success; and (3) what relationships may exist between the two. The population surveyed included all persons with a bachelor's or higher degree in engineering who were working in an engineering area. Data were obtained by means of a questionnaire. Six...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Educational Research, Engineering Education, Engineers, Occupational...
At an employer's request, a course was developed to improve the speech skills, and remediate fossilized speech, of six Asian engineers and scientists. All had spoken English for many years, and averaged 10 years of residence in the United States. These students were recorded reading a dialogue as well as in free speech. A needs assessment was performed by analyzing the recordings and by tests of grammar and listening comprehension. Based on the results, instruction focused on developing more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Techniques, Engineers, English (Second Language), Foreign Nationals,...
A conceptual and methematical model was developed to study the preparation of persons holding Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees and to discover the proportion of them who assume academic positions. Data were collected on the number of US and foreign engineering students enrolled, degrees granted, and their employment in academic, industrial, governmental and other sectors of the national economy. The model, consisting of over 200 non-linear difference equations, was programmed for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Engineers, Graduate Study, Higher...
This report summarizes, and gives a full report, of a feasibility study involving a discussion of problems and issues related to occupational and professional regulation that took place during four regional conferences attended by nearly 100 officials from 30 states. Participants included state legislators, licensing administrators, attorneys general staff members, governors' aides, and consumer officials. Major problems and concerns emerging from the discussions covered eight broad topics:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Cooperative Planning, Credentials,...
The booklet presents (1) a bibliography of approximately 660 references to literature about sex discrimination in the labor market and (2) an expository review of recent research about male/female differences in earnings and occupational assignments. The bibliography is divided into 12 content categories. These include earnings of women workers, occupations of women workers (professional, clerical, blue collar, and service), unemployment among women, unionism, attitudes of and toward working...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Blue Collar Occupations, Clerical Occupations, Employed Women,...
Results of a follow-up survey of recipents of Masters and Doctoral degrees from the College of Education of Texas A&M University are reported. The scope of inquiry included those who completed post-baccalaureate programs between May 1975 and May 1977, inclusively. Professional and employment profiles were obtained from holders of each degree. Their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of the school's curriculum and program were sought. The following courses were the focus of the study:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Curriculum Evaluation, Doctoral Degrees, Education Majors,...
Designed to help organizations interested in expanding job options for women to plan and hold a community-based conference on nontraditional jobs, this guide outlines basic steps in planning, provides information about successful programs, and makes suggestions about how to deal with the mechanics of a conference. Following an introduction which presents the barriers to and advantages of nontraditional employment for women, a section on preliminary planning discusses the conference coordinator,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Career Development, Career Opportunities,...
This document is the second of two volumes of tables summarizing the data obtained from the Employer Information Reports (EEO-1) for 1978. Figures were obtained from a total of 39,000 employers with 36 million employees. These figures cover about half of all private, non-farm workers, as compared to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual average employment statistics. Volume 2 contains two tables. Table 1 relates occupational employment in private industry by race/ethnic group and sex and by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Clerical Occupations,...
"Exploring Careers" is a career education resource program, published in fifteen separate booklets, for junior high school-age students. It provides information about the world of work and offers its readers a way of learning about themselves and relating that information to career choices. The publications aim to build career awareness by means of occupational narratives, evaluative questions, activities, and career games grouped in fourteen occupational clusters. This eleventh of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Exploration,...
A study examined the search for university technology faculty members during 1986-87. The 71 position announcements in departments listed in the Industrial Teacher Education Directory and/or the Chronicle of Higher Education were analyzed. The heads of those departments were surveyed to find out the status of the search and the characteristics of those hired. The response rate for the survey was 95.8 percent. The following were among the study's findings: (1) only 66.2 percent of the responding...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Competitive Selection, Education Work...
This report discusses the need for program accreditation and licensure in allied health fields, and in particular, addresses two issues: (1) an attempt by the American Physical Therapy Association to increase the entry-level standards for physical therapy education without achieving consensus; and (2) the attempt to reduce entry-level standards for dental hygienists by sources outside the profession, again with no attempt to achieve consensus. It is noted that the system of educational program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Allied Health Occupations...
This paper synthesizes literature on the topic of professions in general and the teaching profession in particular. The paper is organized into three sections. The first section emphasizes the history and fundamental aspects of professions in the United States. The second section looks specifically at the teaching profession, using fundamental aspects of professions as a framework (body of knowledge, ideal of service, autonomy, ethical codes, and a distinctive culture). The third section...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Codes of Ethics, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature...
This guide was developed to assist states in addressing the national workforce development objectives for the health professions and for employees of public health agencies in order to achieve the National Healthy People 2010 workforce objectives. The guide is organized in four sections. The opening section is a "how to" resource for planners. It provides seven strategy options for including workforce objectives in state Healthy People or other health plans. Two following sections...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Competence, Futures (of Society), Government Role, Guides, Health Behavior,...
A model was developed positing four factors as having a determinant influence on the desire of Mexicans for future economic relationships between their country and the United States. The factors, previously identified as occupying a central position in intercultural communication, are perceptions of shared interests, threats, homophily, and accuracy. The model was tested using data collected in a survey of 800 Mexicans identified as holding "elite" positions in three metropolitan...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Communication Research, Goodness of Fit, Intercultural...
