The article discusses: the role of staff development within the broad concept of continuing education, continuing education based on different types of preparatory education, need for improved learning opportunities for staff development educators, and major goals for the staff development educator. (Author/MS)

a workshop for college administrators, sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, stressed the administrative team approach to university governance. Results of the followup study reported here suggest that four years after the training, participant administrators maintained the same level of commitment to project…

PACE is an administrative program which will record three types of continuing education experience: college credits relating to the areas of medical technology, continuing education units which meet PACE standards, and individual education units--any educational activity which does not meet the standards of the other two categories. (Author/AG)

The assumption that after the appropriate educational event, patient care audits (PCA) can demonstrate improvement in physician performance was examined in a study that reaffirmed earlier findings that the apparent improvement in doctor performance after a PCA may be improvement that was already occurring, with no greater improvement occurring…

A mobile inservice unit providing continuing education for staff members of nursing homes, extended care facilities, and small hospitals has been developed by Phoenix College for Maricopa County, Arizona. (LH)

The article discusses the success of the Region Four Adult Basic Education Staff Development Project through various universities' role in the development of services to promote staff involvement in ABE programs. (BP)

Developed solutions for the education of various minority groups in inner city settings. (Author/RK)

We in continuing education must define and refine our philosophical commitments based on our parent organization's philosophy, the mandates from professional organizations, and our own professional value systems. (Author)

Vocational education is going to get on with its "process of becoming" when people who staff the programs start behaving as professionals. (Author)

An ongoing program designed to meet the educational needs of coronary care nurses in the Seattle area is described; course content for each quarterly session varies according to student requests. Two-week core sessions (ten hours of lecture-discussion) are followed by interim inservice education sessions at the pilot hospitals. (AJ)

This study considers the use of repeaters when test equating. The subjects consist of five groups of applicants to a professional certification program. Each group comprises first time examinees and repeaters. The procedures include a common item linear equating with nonrandom groups, use of equating chains, and the use of total examinee group…

Continuing professional education has proven to be an acceptable control mechanism to assure professional competence. Officially recognized first under the Engineering, Science, Management War Training Act of World War II, the continuing education movement is still gaining attention in the United States with 16 professions in the 50 states…

This continuing education curriculum and related materials are designed to provide library professionals with a general orientation to the issues and process of negotiating and successfully securing an automation contract. The course syllabus includes the following topics: (1) definition and objectives of a contract; (2) why vendors typically have…

The Florida Association of Professional Health Educators (FAPHE) has been instrumental in developing a voluntary registration/certification process to upgrade professional standards, identify health educators, and establish a network for the purpose of continuing education. Eight basic steps have been identified as necessary for the development of…