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O'Keefe, Bryan; Vedder, Richard – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (NJ1), 2008
This paper is about a court case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1971. Although attorneys recognize that the case is important to businesses, its impact on colleges and universities has been explored by only a few. As this paper will show, "Griggs v. Duke Power" may have enormously boosted the number of students in college and may…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Court Litigation, Academic Degrees, Minimum Competencies
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Laschinger, Heather K. Spence; Weston, Wayne – Journal of Professional Nursing, 1995
Nursing (n=109) and medical (n=108) students from a large Canadian research university were surveyed to determine differences between first- and fourth-year students' perceptions of necessary competencies. Nursing students' perceptions of competencies important for medicine were more congruent than medical students' perceptions of those important…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cooperation, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Shannon, David M.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1993
Preliminary evidence supports the construct validity of two versions of the Simulation of Interactive Decision Making (group tests of interactive teaching competencies that simulate classroom decision making processes more realistically than traditional tests). Evidence of construct validity reflects differences among subjects with various amounts…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competence, Construct Validity, Decision Making