Recent court decisions and legislation show that an adequate school finance formula must provide sufficient money so public schools can teach all students. Four different approaches for determining school finance adequacy are: (1) determining the economic cost of various educational functions; (2) linking spending to performance benchmarks; (3)…

A rationale for reforming and repositioning continuing medical education (CME) is featured in this article. As envisioned by the Conjoint Committee Report on CME and presented in other literature, the CME professional is defined, along with requisite CME professional competencies. Perspectives of CME professionals regarding the Maintenance of…

The best means of training group counselors continues to be discussed and debated in the field of small group work. The authors trace Rex Stockton's work from the use of criterion-based instruction in teaching group counseling to the current application of experiential and skill-based learning. They also examine Stockton's impact on the…

Purpose: To describe an exploration in the use of synergistic learning methods in the delivery of an innovative pilot programme designed to teach entrepreneurship capacities. The programme took a tripartite approach involving nascent entrepreneurs, existing entrepreneurs and facilitators using an action research and action learning approach.…

This article describes a framework for the design and implementation of a competency-based curriculum for graduate management education. The article also outlines how this model has been implemented at one university in the context of a graduate degree in human resource management. Among the significant challenges discussed are the identification…

Program developed at the University of Nebraska. (CH)

This collection of articles presents some pros and cons of performance-based teacher education (PBTE). In the first article, Vincent Gazzetta presents a case for PBTE. He lists 12 areas of concern in teacher education and discusses five issues regarding concepts of competency-based systems. The issues are that a) the definition of competency-based…

Describes the self-paced, competency-based teacher education program instituted at Illinois State University eight years ago and the changes that have had to be made in the program. Four difficult and pervasive problems that had to be resolved are listed. (IRT)

This course comes from the Rocky Mountain Special Education Instructional Materials Center. (CL)

The article describes NUSTEP (Nebraska University Secondary Teacher Education Program), an integrated approach to learning and teaching which combines psychological principles, subject matter methodology, and basic principles of secondary education, and reports on its development and inclusion in business education. (AG)

Presents some of the theory of performance-based teacher education (PBTE); examines the characteristics of actual programs professing to be performance based; indicates some of the issues raised by attempts to impose the approach on the profession; and notes some of the shortcomings of the theory. (Author/JF)

This article develops three interrelated themes: a) that there is a relation by definition of competencies to teaching function; b) that selection of competencies is a political process and a scholar's choice; c) that several major competency selection issues and problems exist. (JA)