Examines geriatric health teams, discussing four dimensions of models for professional functioning (logic of assessment, focus of efforts, locus of responsibility, and pace of action) and three dimensions of models for team functioning (focus of attention, decision-making style, and beliefs about interprofessional dependence). (Author/NB)

This report on the process of graduate and professional student socialization provides information that can be of use to graduate program faculty and administrators, professional associations, state legislatures, and professional licensing bodies charged with assuring clients that well qualified professional practitioners are being prepared in the…

The article describes a graduate course on gifted education that is based on the Enrichment Triad Model (ETM). The ETM provides a format for three types of enrichment--general exploratory experiences, group training activities, and individual and small group investigations of real problems. (SW)

Argues that the ability to generate and use knowledge requires new ways of designing instruction. The development of thinking skills is discussed in terms of creating content, as opposed to using and remembering content, and teaching strategies for such activities are described. Twenty-five references are included. (BK)

Current evidence suggests that the Boulder, or scientist-professional, model of training in clinical psychology is successful and widely accepted. This article argues against alternative models and stresses the need for quality in the profession and in the discipline of psychology. (Author/RLV)

A survey of 34 continuing-education institutions found that diverse units administer graduate certificate programs. A better model would involve shared governance by graduate schools and continuing education schools. Each brings different strengths: graduate schools offer quality assurance, and continuing education has a market orientation and…

Developed an enrollment process model and used it to study the decision process leading to enrollment in a university's doctoral business program through a questionnaire. Responses of 51 doctoral students provide insight into student behavior and the substance of the school's current market. (SLD)

Reviews the ethical and legal mandates relevant to developing and implementing a gatekeeping model. Presents a model endorsed by the Texas Association of Counselor Educators that uses a behaviorally specific student evaluation instrument developed in accordance with competencies outlined in the American Counseling Association (1995) "Code of…

The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical framework of learning and to develop a pedagogical (TTRACE) model that might be useful to teachers teaching statistics online or at a distance. We describe our graduate-level hybrid statistics course and the technological tools we utilized to illustrate how our model and design features can…

Post-graduate courses are periodically evaluated in accordance with not always very clear criteria by CAPES (Co-ordinating Committee for Teaching Staff Improvement). These criteria try to measure, among other things, academic productivity (including quantity and quality of scientific production), number of classes given by teachers, time to…

Many research students go through periods where their research seems to stall, their motivation drops, and they seem unable to make any progress. As supervisors, we attempt to remain alert to signs that our student's progress has stalled. Drawing on cognitive strategies, this article explores a problem-solving model supervisors can use to identify…

An innovative way to add opportunities for the development of personal and professional competencies without adding any additional courses to a curriculum is to add individual assignments to already existing courses--a curriculum model presented in this paper as a "parallel curriculum" to the existing curriculum. The advantages of the…

Experiential learning, an effective pedagogical method in MIS and other business courses, has been limited by instructional formats and teaching resources. But with the advent of Web 2.0 and its rich set of social networking and mass authoring tools, a shift in learning structure in content, process, and outcome is emerging. In this paper, we…