An important and widely noticed trend among health professions and occupations in the 1970s has been the increasingly widespread use of credentialing mechanisms. These mechanisms are intended to ensure that health services are provided adequately and with at least a minimum degree of competence. This report is intended to enhance and broaden…

The purpose of this handbook is to acquaint Indiana secondary vocational teachers with the Professional Development Plan (PDP), which is intended to assist in the development of individual teaching and technical skills and is a requirement for license renewal. It includes a discussion of the features of the occupational specialist certificate; an…

A questionnaire was sent to each state occupational coordinating committee in the 50 states asking for information about certification/recertification requirements for postsecondary vocational teachers. Information was provided by 43 states, and a brief summary of this information for each state responding is included in this report. In addition,…

To carry out this study, personal interviews were conducted with licensing personnel in the geographically diverse states of New York, California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas. The nonprofessional occupations (those requiring not more than two years of post-high school training) examined for licensing requirements in at least one of the five…

This report contains several articles on drug abuse worker credentialing, and provides an update on information about credentialing policies and reciprocity efforts of the states. The first article reports on a meeting of the credentialing/reciprocity task force comprised of representatives from 10 states which have exhibited leadership in the…

This paper examines licensing from the provider's point of view. It is based on the premise that a healthy relationship between the licenser and licensee is based on knowledge and the free exchange of information. More specifically, four areas are examined: (1) licensing, as one of the many forms of regulation in our society; (2) legislation, as…

The first part of the thoroughly documented report is described as an effort to clarify and reemphasize the position of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with regard to the "two-year moratorium on the enactment of legislation that would establish new categories of health personnel." It also presents a preliminary assessment of the…

This document describes the Indiana beginning vocational teacher's plan for license renewal and is intended for use by the vocational administrator and the experienced teacher who are acting as mentors for the beginning teacher. The first part of the handbook includes the following materials: outline of requirements of the occupational specialist…

Teacher education is faced with critical problems, including establishing its own credibility. One assumption often made is that other professions do a more creditable job of monitoring those who enter their ranks and that teacher education might profit by emulating those groups who have been presumably more successful. The concept of relicensing…

This study was designed to ascertain, from the empirical evidence available, the common characteristics of successful licensure efforts in the allied health occupations. A pattern of three steps to licensure for health care occupations emerged from the literature. The first step is birth (of a new occupation), often caused by new technology (new…

A study of the involvement of continuing higher education in professional and occupational regulation should focus on the growth of practice regulation, roles of higher education, and issues and areas for cooperation in meeting the practitioners' needs. Knowledge obsolescence and the definition of more specific fields have led to a heightened need…

The basic requirements for credentialing in 31 professions supervised by the Board of Regents and administered by the New York State Department of Education are listed. Not every requirement is cited, and a more detailed statement of the credentialing requirements for these professions may be found in Title VIII of the Education Law and in the…