Our knowledge "system" is built up from disciplines and specialties as its components, which are "wired" by patterns of collaboration that constitute its organization. The intellectual autonomy of these components prevents this knowledge system from adequately accounting for what we have gradually discovered during the past 50 years: In human…

An ongoing program designed to meet the educational needs of coronary care nurses in the Seattle area is described; course content for each quarterly session varies according to student requests. Two-week core sessions (ten hours of lecture-discussion) are followed by interim inservice education sessions at the pilot hospitals. (AJ)

Interest in the attitude-behavior relationship has generated much research since the concept was introduced into research in 1934. This study examined the relationship between values and behavioral intentions, specifically in regard to interest in entering a particular medical specialization. Using structural equation techniques and a longitudinal…

The ratio of journalism students choosing advertising to those choosing a news-editorial emphasis has risen dramatically in the 1980s. To determine whether students are rejecting the news-editorial curriculum based on their beliefs that occupations in this field offer low salaries, poor working conditions, and less creative opportunity than…

Should an educational evaluator be trained as a content specialist, an evaluation specialist, or some combination of the two? A content specialist has demonstratable expertise in the field of study being evaluated, but not training in evaluation methods; the evaluation specialist has expertise in evaluation methods but may know little about the…

Although the number of Master's level counselor training programs has increased dramatically over the last 20 years, reduction in state and federal funding has reduced the demand for counselors. To examine the supply and demand for counselors in four San Francisco Bay area counties, a regional survey of degrees awarded between 1972 and 1981 in…

A guide to help students identify certificate programs at American colleges and universities that meet their educational objectives is available. More than 1500 programs for acquiring specialized knowledge in a concentrated, time-efficient manner are described. Designed to assist anyone with responsibility for individual career planning or…

Sixth of six articles from a special feature on differentiated staffing.

Although all women medical students have demonstrated occupational role innovation by their career choice, their selection of the field in which they will specialize during their medical careers (secondary career choice) may or may not represent additional innovation. Women enrolled in two medical schools in 1975-76 who stated that they had made a…

SIX FACTORS OR CATEGORIES OF COLLEGE CHARACTERISTICS WERE COMPUTED FOR 581 ACCREDITED JUNIOR COLLEGES. WHEN THESE INSTITUTIONS WERE CLASSIFIED AND ANALYZED BY GEOGRAPHICAL REGION, SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND AMONG REGIONS ON ALL SIX FACTORS. ON THE CULTURAL AFFLUENCE OR PRIVATE CONTROL FACTOR, THE MAIN TREND SEEMS TO BE FOR COLLEGES IN THE…

The attitudes of Belgian chemistry students who had chosen their area of specialization, toward organic, physical, inorganic, or analytical chemistry or biochemistry, were measured. Major differences were found in the activity attitudes rather than in the evaluative or potency attitudes. Area of specialization does not seem to correspond to…

Responses to 281 questionnaires were analyzed from 171 fellows, faculty members, and practitioners to determine the influential factors in pulmonary subspecialty decisions, and at what point of training these career decisions are made. The specific role of medical school instruction or interaction in these decisions was of special interest.…

Major objectives of secondary specialized education in the Soviet Union are training qualified specialists and contributing to the development of the general cultural and educational level of the population. Presents statistics related to expansion in training of specialized personnel and predicts that future educational development will be based…