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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Education, Continuing"”.
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Job Satisfaction and Empowerment of Self-Employed Nurse Practitioners: A Mixed Methods Study
… oversight and lack of business management education. Continuing work to remove, restrictive and reduced state regulatory environments, as well as education on business management, may increase the number of NPs in private practice, expanding access to health care for the American people.</p>
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Continuing educational needs of state agency fish and wildlife biologists
… agencies were surveyed to determine their continuing education needs related to specific job tasks. In addition, proficiency levels required for job tasks were rated. An organizational analysis was also conducted to ascertain agency climate for support of continuing education programs. …
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Growing pains to growing shame and beyond: a reflexive dyadic on stigmatised identity
… health is a significant concern within the UK. Education, is considered an important aspect in attempts to address negative attitudes. This thesis opens a dyadic space in which I explore personal stigma stories relating to mental health. In addition, to consider how these connect to my doctoral …
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Competency Development In Community-Based Occupational Therapy
… suggestions for improving academic training and continuing education for OTs in community-based practice. Data collection was completed using an electronic survey that targeted members of the American Occupational Therapy Association who have experience in community-based OT. The survey was …
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Continuing education and community services goals for Virginia's community colleges: a modified Delphi study
… was to determine if agreement on the goals of continuing education and community services could be arrived at among Virginia Community College System presidents, provosts, deans of instruction, and directors of continuing education by using the Delphi technique. Ambiguity existing on the goals …
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Neonatal Resuscitation: Interactive Flash Cards for Pediatric Health Professionals
The file named "GhuzziSuzanne.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. To view the supplemental flash card file, click on the file named "ghuzzi_nrp_flashcards.swf".
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Secondary teachers' perceptions on their competency and self-efficacy levels associated with an integrated professional development approach to teaching United States history
The study assessed a multifaceted professional development approach and its impact on teacher competency and self-efficacy. The professional development approach considered in this study reflected an integration of Content Immersion Mini-institutes, Public History Field Experiences, and …
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The Emotional Experience of Continuing Professional Development for Social Workers
… connect and engage openly with opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) while others seem to have a more conflicted relationship with their learning. Using psychoanalytically informed free association narrative interviews with eight social workers, the study explores the …
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An examination of the costs and benefits of the quality assurance mechanisms of Authorised Validating agencies applicable to three key stakeholder groups: higher education institutions, Access course providing institutions and students
… the providing institution, students, and higher education institutions. The general principles of cost-benefit analysis are outlined along with case study examples. A computer-based model is produced with the capability of manipulating the generalisable costbenefit factors to accommodate local …
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Adult Enrichment Learners In St. Cloud, Minnesota: Motivational Reasons For Participation
… that influence participation in adult community education enrichment classes in the St. Cloud Public School District, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The study also examined the perceptions about adult learners held by leaders, planners, and facilitators of these programs, and identified similarities and …
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A case study of a blended e-learning programme for carers and practitioners in the field of autism spectrum disorders
… of practice can add value to pedagogy in higher education and that programme tutors need to consider the specific properties of different communication mediums when designing programmes.
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Professional Growth and Development: A Study of Exemplary Middle School Principals in Iowa
… factors include: commitment to middle level education, enthusiasm for education, a strong work ethic, risk-taking, intuitive knowledge of what works for students, and promoting positive interpersonal relationships among staff and students. Conclusions. Data from this study support the …
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A challenge to teacher professionalism : the training and deployment of Specialist Teacher Assistants in the North West of England
… their deployment change through the plethora of educational policy and the demands they have placed on teachers in their classrooms. This has led teachers to use the support they receive of assistants in different ways to maintain and raise standards in education. Assistants' roles, in recent …
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Adult Literacy discourses, their philosophical origins and their impact: case studies of the values and assumptions of practitioners
… and now embedded in the power structures of educational institutions, is not supported by this particular group of research participants, who are strongly orientated towards the ‘literacy as a social practice’ and the ‘literacy as an experiential process’ approaches.
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A study of the continuing library education patterns of public librarians in New Jersey
… (a) ascertain the strengths and weakness of the continuing library education practices of New Jersey public librarians; (b) determine the frequency of continuing library education of New Jersey public librarians; (c) determine if certain types of librarians participate in continuing library …
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A study of the cognitive styles and learning preferences of Fire Service officers
… The research examines the psychological and educational derivations of models that underpin the CSA and LSQ instruments in order to help clarify the construct systems used to describe both cognitive and learning style; and to examine their relationships with other psychological constructs. …
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Considerations for delivery of online professional development courses for childcare professionals
1 PDF file (x, 155 pages)
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Enhancing learning through opening the group model in a synchronous computer-based environment.
This research seeks to apply the concepts of collaborative learning and open learner modelling in order to find out whether seeing their own group learner model helps learners improve their learning in a computer-based collaborative learning environment. There is previous work on giving back …
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A case study of the knowledge and understanding of leadership amongst leaders in the Scout Association in an English city
… leadership of voluntary providers of informal education for young people. This is true of one of the largest providers: the Scout Association. The thesis examines the nature, diversity and sources of the knowledge and understanding of leadership of Scout Association leaders in one English …
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The knowledge-based economy and higher education: cases from the State of Florida
… referred to as executive and professional education (EPE). To properly define level of support several additional undertakings were necessary, including: discovering methods of valuing knowledge to a region, state or country, establishing why participants in EPE programs enroll in them, and …
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