After more than 20 years of a critical shortage in special education teachers, this mid-Atlantic state expedited program development for undergraduate-level teacher preparation programs. To meet the accelerated timeline, one programat large public university used its graduate-level coursework as model undergraduate level program. initial implementation, it was clear that revisions were necessar...

In this paper, we reviewed the dimensions of Malaysian experience in preparing and rehabilitating those who are about to get married, which is called (the marriage license). The success achieved by that within society, divorce rate - at one time reached nearly 32%. After applying Malaysia, decreased 7%. This confirms importance qualifying married both sexes (male female); achieves stability fam...

Preparing tomorrow’s teachers includes carefully developed curriculums, extensive class work and experiences that support student to learn apply content knowledge, theory pedagogical skills. A significant part of this is often clinical teaching experiences, which allow put into practice. Teacher preparation programs seek instill necessary skills dispositions be effective physical education teac...

BACKGROUND Claims data provide rapid indicators of SSIs for coronary artery bypass surgery and have been shown to successfully rank hospitals by SSI rates. We now operationalize this method for use by payers without transfer of protected health information, or any insurer data, to external analytic centers. RESULTS We performed a descriptive study testing the operationalization of software fo...

According to the American Society for Engineering Education, the four STEM disciplines should not be taught in isolation in a school curriculum, but interdisciplinary reinforced, and continually cross referenced, as part of a dynamic triangle that ultimately researches, designs, and creates the way we live, work and play. Therefore, it only makes solid academic and professional sense to prepare...

The nursing shortage is exacerbated by the faculty shortage, as faculty approach retirement age and too few faculty exist to replace them. Masters-prepared nurse with limited preparation for teaching may be unable to attend traditional educational programs because of work and family commitments. Without further academic preparation, these nurses are illprepared for the faculty role. The College...

Academic training leading to prescriptive authority is compared among psychiatric nurse practitioners, physicians, and pharmacologically trained psychologists. Statistics are presented on the relative emphasis that programs serving each discipline place on the preparation of their respective students in academic and clinical content areas that are relevant to the prescribing of psychoactive med...

In this paper we present a new approach to writing Makefiles and a system called maker which helps in this process. Our main goals are: ease the process of writing user Makefiles, reuse variable and rule definitions, handle common tasks automatically (dependency tracking, preparation of code and environment for testing or debugging) and provide support for software development on heterogeneous ...

The structural complexity of the teacher education unit is pulled together by a common conceptual framework of teacher preparation that is supported by the missions of the university, the colleges and the departments. Our conceptual framework is continually evolving as it is influenced by our study of teacher preparation. We view our program as holistic and dynamic. While supported by the frame...