Describes the five-year educational program at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health that teaches utilization of a computerized Medical Information System for documenting the nursing process. (CT)

Discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of a work-study clinical nursing course designed to allow student nurses to experience the realities of professional nursing. The authors report the reactions of faculty, nursing staff, and students to the experience. (Author/CT)

Describes the College of the Living, a program of continuing education for the disabled at Colorado State University: its history, program design, philosophy, needs assessment of the target population, objectives, implementation, and program evaluation. (CT)

Implications from common themes underscore the need to redefine and expand the purposes of professional education and to consider experiential learning programmatically in relation to these purposes. Other implications relating to program design and to how we view and manage the process of learning are summarized. (Author/MLW)

This article is an essay review of the book "Project Head Start: A Legacy of the War on Poverty," coedited by Edward Zigler and Jeanette Valentine. (DB)

The strengths and weaknesses of the British National Health Service are analyzed. (JD)

School focused in-service education and training (INSET) is a synthesis of course-based and school-based models. Three elements are considered: identification and definition of needs; development and execution of appropriate INSET activities to meet these needs; and evaluation. (JMF)

This article describes a peer coaching model implemented in two elementary schools that included the following steps: identify coaches and their needs; identify learning buddies with similar needs; set up a schedule; determine supervision process; plan lessons; implement coaching sessions; reflect on lesson; and evaluate the model. (Contains…

Design of in-company training for students must consider objectives, staff, methods, duration, and timing. Data collection tools to monitor progress and evaluate performance are critical. A support team to provide guidance, information, and placement assistance is also an important element. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

This paper describes a group therapy program for six young sexually abused children. The group used a structured format and met for nine weekly sessions; a parallel caregivers' group was also organized. Program evaluation showed that the children had increased confidence, and fewer problems were reported by their caregivers. (Author/PB)

The Logical Framework (LogFrame) approach to project design and management is introduced for planners, evaluators, and project managers. Lessons learned from its international use, and applications of LogFrame and its computer software package are discussed. This flexible tool can improve project planning and design for almost any project. (SLD)

A 4-year study of 27 system-of-care sites designed to provides mental health services to children and adolescents, found that despite many changes in each local service system, no site was able to fully implement all 16 key attributes comprising an ideal system-of-care model (including sites with previous system-building experience). (Contains…

In collaboration with distinguished scholars and National Institute on Aging (NIA) staff, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a research training program in aging for psychology faculty from 4-year colleges. The goal of the program was to build and sustain a community of college faculty committed to conducting aging research, incorporating…

Due to new standards in fostering life-long learning at school, research has increasingly dealt with the promotion of self-regulated learning, resulting in a large number of intervention studies conducted at primary and secondary school. The current study aimed at investigating the impact of various training characteristics on the training…

To be effective in providing a writing literacy program, regardless of communication approaches, educators should establish program-wide conditions that promote English writing literacy over time. The researcher's purpose for this study was to identify shared characteristics of writing intervention programs in three different communication school…