This article seeks to spark a dialectic discussion on the establishment of a set of professional competencies for quality assurance practitioners who serve in external quality assurance agencies in higher education. Such a need is identified due to the shortage of relevant and sufficient coverage in the quality assurance literature. To…

What a realistic training program should require, given a broad scope of research methodology, is discussed. Considering the core of evaluation research training, the diversity of methodologies raises issues about what is to be taught and how the involvement of students in actual projects is discussed. (Author/GK)

Maintains that graduate training in sociology is an uneasy compromise between teaching new sociologists practical knowledge and doing what a department's various constituencies demand. Suggests that faculty should develop a continuing dialogue with students and incorporate them, formally and informally, in their work. (Author/DH)

The Office of Economic Opportunity funded a program to train administrators for schools serving large numbers of Indian children. The program, which called for the support and training of 20 American Indians in programs leading to degrees and certification in school administration, was aimed at alleviating the shortage of school administrators…

Most evaluators surveyed favored professional training, and generally agreed upon the importance of 39 curricular elements for program evaluation study at the master's, educational specialist, and doctoral levels. (CP)

Phase IV of the project entitled Occupational Education Administration Project (OEAP) presents the results of a comprehensive assessment to evaluate the effects of OEAP with respect to achievement and subsequent administrative performance of participating students. (OEAP, as a total project, was designed to (1) field test the model…

This report draws on information from ten interdisciplinary programs, including the Interdisciplinary Program for Day Care and Child Development at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), which are concerned primarily with the training of professionals in services related to child development. Directors and coordinators of all ten programs…

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the Master of Science Degree program in Vocational Education and the Education Specialist Degree program in Industrial and Vocational Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout have prepared the Program graduates of selected years to meet the needs of their present professional…