Educating beginning practitioners

Experiences from Educating Practitioners in Vulnerability Analysis

This paper presents a vulnerability analysis course especially developed for practitioners and experiences gained from it. The described course is a compact three days course initially aimed to educate practitioners in the process of finding security weaknesses in their own products. After giving an overview of the course, the paper presents results from two different types of course evaluation...

Beginning to Define a Body of Knowledge for Safety Practitioners

Educating novice practitioners to detect elder financial abuse: a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND Health and social care professionals are well positioned to identify and intervene in cases of elder financial abuse. An evidence-based educational intervention was developed to advance practitioners' decision-making in this domain. The objective was to test the effectiveness of a decision-training educational intervention on novices' ability to detect elder financial abuse. The rese...

Educating and Training Library Practitioners: A Comparative History with Trends and Recommendations

THELIBRARY PROFESSION AS PRACTICED IN THE UNITED STA4TES has evolved into two primary divisions of employees: librarians and library technicians. A historical survey of the education of both groups reveals a number of persistent themes and some currently urgent issues. The schooling of library practitioners is heavily influenced by two environments-i.e., academia and the profession itself. The ...

ASP, Art and Science of Practice: Educating Military Operations Research Practitioners

The 2013 UPS George D. Smith Prize was awarded to the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Operations Research (OR) department for “effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics.” In the spirit of the prize, this paper shares details about our degree program. The program is closely linked to its military sponsor, ...