Interconnection of Educational and Professional Standards

Professional Standards Review Organizations

Diagnostic Amniocentesis in Singleton Pregnancy Guidelines Suggested by EFSUMB ́S Educational And Professional Standards Committee Indications

Comments Re a) After individual genetic counseling with regard to the risk of miscarriage caused by the invasive procedure and the risk of fetal chromosomal abnormality, every pregnant woman/couple decides whether an amniocentesis should be performed. From a strictly medical point of view, it is desirable that the risk of chromosomal abnormality be at least as high as that of miscarriage caused...

Four Critical Issues of Applying Educational Technology Standards to Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers

To have students adequately prepared for adult citizenship, computer-based technology is to be routinely used at schools and universities. To achieve this end, new approaches to teacher education are to be developed and utilized, which should be based on some suitable educational technology (ET) standards. As computers are, in general, rarely used in mathematics classrooms, such an ET-based app...

Measuring educational standards

Every Summer, when English public examination results appear there is a debate within the media about whether ‘educational standards’ are changing. The above remarks are typical; the first reflects the suspicions of those who believe in a professional conspiracy to prove that standards of performance are rising, and the second reflects a politician’s determination to pretend that everything has...

Professional Development And The Implementation Of Standards

New National and State standards are being mandated for all children, including children with disabilities. The challenge is to ensure that teachers have the training and tools to meet the needs of a heterogeneous population. This presentation describes a professional development effort for teachers designed to model standard-based instruction in science, so that their students can achieve the ...