The authors describe a teaching-learning model which aims at providing counselors with the chance to learn new techniques and skills, to discuss new ideas and to clarify their role in the institutions where they work. The model requires the running of a workshop lasting from four to seven days. (SE)

Discussed are findings relevant to the study's first objective, involving the demographic characteristics and motivational patterns contributing to obsolescence. Responses from 65 registered nurses in a midwestern State revealed a lack of continuing education and of intrinsic motivation to remain competent. (Part 2 will identify target populations…

Presents the results of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP) survey to represent the perceived needs of family physicians who are concerned about continuing education. (PG)

This handbook describes 77 voluntary programs offering professional credentialing for people in a wide range of professional and occupational fields. Each description lists credentials, organization offering credentials, initial credentialing requirements, credential renewal requirements (if any), continuing education approval process, and other…

Guidelines for continuing education for information, library, and media personnel are presented in this report, which provides criteria for five different kinds of continuing education strategies: (1) group programs and activities; (2) individualized programs and activities; (3) instructional materials and technologies; (4) continuing education…

Although large numbers of teachers are employed in the Catholic parochial schools, little information about their continuing education interests is reported in the literature. A mail survey of a systematic sample of 215 classroom teachers in the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan schools revealed high interest in such continuing education topics as…

Since 1979 collaborative activities in continuing education for human services workers in Montana have shown that combining training efforts among agencies and higher education units provides better instruction at a considerable savings in cost and particularly suits rural agencies with small training budgets and small, widely dispersed staffs.…

Traces ten years of the American Educational Research Association's research training efforts through a description of the development of the training operation itself, its staffing and supervision, its financial and unresolved problems. (Author/SF)

Safeguarding the morale and vitality of educators is of major importance in this time of retrenchment for most higher educational institutions where cost effectiveness is a major concern. (Author/DN)

The purpose of this article is to provide conclusions reached through study of the large audience seminar, and especially the study of physicians as learners. It is now felt that a large audience seminar is most successful when special attention is focused on guest speaker performance. (Author)

The cost advantages of an in-hospital training program for nurses in coronary care were demonstrated by the experience of in-service trainers at North Central Kansas City Memorial Hospital, Missouri. (BP)