Business education has a long history of growth, change, and development. Instruction "about" commercial practices and "for" business employment is fundamental to every known society, and the key question for contemporary societies, especially highly developed economies, is how business education can best be implemented, and by whom.…

The concept of competence is increasingly the basis for (re)designing VET. In competence-based VET academic disciplines are no longer starting points for curriculum development. Competence needed for working in practice, however, is. Competence-based learning is a dominant trend in VET in several countries because of fewer expected problems in the…

This article started as a debate between the two authors. Both authors present a series of propositions about quality standards in education research. Cook's propositions, as might be expected, not only concern the importance of experimental trials for establishing the security of causal evidence, but also include some important practical and…

The purpose of this study was to determine the critical exercise science competencies and associated instructional methods recommended for inclusion in the physical education teacher education curriculum. The two-round modified Delphi procedure involved the repeated circulation of a questionnaire to a small panel of content experts. The Delphi…

This paper reflects a multi-year collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and Griffith University to help inform Australian educational leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting teaching, learning, and research in tertiary education. The research underpinning the report makes use of the NMC's Delphi-based…

The central purpose of this study was to expand upon previous research in relation to competencies that are desired by university engineering faculty in their incoming freshman. This study used a Delphi technique as noted by Paige, Dugger, and Wolansky (1996) and Wicklein (1993) to identify and analyze what secondary education competencies should…

In the first phase of the research project Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society (www.nanosoc.be), the research consortium explored a variety of futuristic visions or technoscientific imaginaries. This exploration took the form of a Policy Delphi, adapted to the particular objective of jointly constructing nano-imaginaries, taking participants'…

Understanding complex systems is fundamental to understanding science. The complexity of such systems makes them very difficult to understand because they are composed of multiple interrelated levels that interact in dynamic ways. The goal of this study was to understand how experts and novices differed in their understanding of two complex…

Discusses a study of emerging trends in human resource development (HRD), organization development, and quality of work life. Results indicate that greater concentration on practical concerns in HRD--productivity, profitability, measuring results, adapting to new technologies--predominates against humanistic interests. (JOW)

The Delphi technique was used to ascertain the relative importance of evaluation standards for vocational/technical programs in Missouri. The rank ordering of the standards provides a framework for deriving the overall quality rating of programs and institutions. (SK)

Describes research conducted to identify dominant issues that have emerged in the field of cooperative education and discusses their significance and likely impact on cooperative education programs in the future. (CT)

A case study of a Canadian health care organization and a Delphi study with a sample of subject-matter experts identified five themes for management training and development: continued tight financial constraints; greater accountability; need for better staff development and evaluation; cooperative resource sharing for management training; and…

There has been scant exploration of the extent to which counselors are using various types of computer related technology (CRT) in their work. This study examines which counselor-related tasks counselors are currently accomplishing with the help of CRT, and in what ways CRT will be used by counselors and counselor educators to do their work in the…

Provides a model for using the Delphi technique to develop outcome measures for information literacy. Procedures for using the Delphi technique are explained, implications of results related to the National Education Goals of 1990 are discussed, and methodological recommendations are presented. (Contains eight references.) (LRW)

Background: Despite access for women administrators in educational leadership departments, the longevity of their service within them is tenuous. Women administrators are caught in the social constructions of gender and leadership. Purpose: To explore how some women administrators in educational leadership programs have sustained their…