Literature offers a vicarious but immediate and dramatic means for complementing the technical training of systems analysts, a means that can fairly effectively substitute for some of the real environment experience for which his or her systems are being designed. (MJB)

The American Translators Association, founded in 1959, has twelve hundred members in six classes of membership. It provides a registry of American translators, a professional service directory, accreditation and translator training programs, and publishes a journal, the "ATA Chronicle." A reaffirmation of ATA principles concludes the article. (AMH)

At the City University of New York (CUNY) the Faculty Development Program (FDP) helps develop faculty teaching skills by enrolling professors in courses they plan to teach. A writing instructor details his experiences while participating in English 0.4. (MD)

Notes that the issue of leadership and management has become a hot topic for school principals and administrators with books, magazines, and articles urging participatory corporate management techniques. Suggests newer management styles developed in the private sector offer some valuable approaches. (NH)

To investigate how social work professionals use lay resources in caregiving and what their professional roles and concerns are when lay resources are used was examined in 96 articles published in "Social Work" (1960-83). Findings are related to reciprocal model of caregiving, and implications of that model for social policy, social work…

Describes a project in which an urban university and a local retail establishment in a metropolitan area collaborated with a postsecondary institution in a market research project designed to determine the degree of professionalism practiced in sales performances in retail stores. (CT)

Examines the development of professional identity and commitment in young student affairs administrators. (Author)

Newcomers learn about the practices and values of an organization through a process called socialization. Organizational socialization research provides useful information on the strategies, such as indirect questioning and disguised conversation, that new employees can use as they move into unfamiliar settings. At one time, researchers believed…

This study investigated the education and training of paraeducators to learn how they viewed their role in the instructional process and to explore who held the responsibility for assigning tasks to paraeducators and allocating their time. Researchers surveyed paraeducators who were attending their state or regional paraeducator conferences in the…

An increasing number of adventure facilitators are being trained in school settings. The common form of training consists of modeling the appropriate behavior to new facilitators followed by an apprenticeship period. An attempt was made to determine if adventure facilitators were making ethically correct decisions based upon their knowledge and…

The author reflects on his first year as an admissions officer with special emphasis on training and professionalism. (RP)

Suggests that hospital personnel and manufacturers' representatives collaborate to teach inservice courses for nurses with nurse-instructors handling the basic science review. (DS)

Author views medical education as changing from training doctors to be repairmen to their becoming maintenance and repairmen. (HS)