This article examines community-college students' goals within the dominant framing of higher education, in which education serves primarily as preparation for the new economy. Specifically, it explores students' motives for acquiring college credentials and how they apply the principles of utility and efficiency to their pursuit of those…

Expert testimony by clinical social workers concerning a criminal defendant's competence to stand trial has increasingly been admitted in certain state courts over the past two decades, yet most state laws still require that court-appointed competence evaluators be psychiatrists or psychologists. Pressure to admit social workers' testimony will…

Georgia conducted a multiphase, mixed methods study over three years (2003-2006) to determine whether credit-based transition programs facilitate college access and success for students who participate in them. The study, conducted in collaboration with, and funding from, the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) and with cooperation from the…

This document addresses the recommendation on developing teacher certification that is appropriate to adult education that was made in California's 1989 Strategic Plan for Adult Education. Following an executive summary, chapter 1 offers a history and summary of the recommendation and lists its objectives. Chapter 2 is a review of relevant…

This directory is intended to provide general information on California requirements for teaching credentials. It serves as a source of information on institutions for individuals planning a program leading to a teaching credential and for out-of-state teachers who wish to apply for a California credential. The introduction to the directory…

The author, from his perspective as president of the American Association of State Psychology Licensing Boards, identifies the issues he believes most pertinent for contemporary psychologists to attend to if they wish to be credentialed as psychologists. (Author)

This article presents research findings, definitions, elements, steps, and philosophical issues pertinent to the credentialing process of health educators. (DF)

Using a sample of 254 San Francisco Bay Area establishments, this study examines determinants of organizational hiring selectivity, including use of educational credentials, tests, and screening devices for both white and blue collar workers. Apparently, hiring standards reflect organizations' skill requirements and group preferences for these…

Counselling is an unregulated activity in Australia. As a developing profession in Australia counselling has two main general and many specialty counselling associations attempting to represent counselling to counsellors, clients, and government bodies. This has led to confusion about counselling credentialing efforts. A presentation was arranged…

This testimony discusses issues related to degrees from "diploma mills" and other unaccredited postsecondary schools, also noting whether federal employees who held senior level positions had degrees from such schools. From February 2003-February 2004, researchers searched the Internet for nontraditional, unaccredited, postsecondary schools that…

The question is not whether their ought to be credentialing, but rather who should do it and how it should be done. (HS)

A plea for the retention of professional status for all teaching functions. Author believes this means a mandated minimum preparation with its essential features determined by the totality of practitioners. (RB)

Discusses legal bases on which administrator selection procedures will be challenged; suggests steps that school officials should take to insure legality of selection procedures. (LR)