This document presents a historical curricular analysis, reviews current curricular research, and offers suggestions for future curricular research in vocational education. It focuses exclusively on the K-12 public school. The first section, a review of research on the development of vocational education as a curricular category, traces each of…

The Health Care Skill Builders Program designed and implemented innovative basic skills courses for health care workers at three hospitals in Alameda County, California. The 10 courses focused on skills identified as necessary for improved job performance and career mobility in the health care field. A team approach integrated social support with…

The purpose of this 2-year project was to develop, and begin implementation of, a comprehensive health occupations teacher education program including preservice, inservice, new teacher orientation, and continuing education components for the State of Virginia. During the second year of the project, the goals were (1) to continue the work of the…

The overall goal of this project was to identify a core curriculum in gerontology for seven allied health professions (radiologic technologist, radiation therapist, respiratory therapist, dental hygienist, dental assistant, physical therapy assistant, and occupational therapy assistant). The project also identified the current state of gerontology…

Disadvantages and advantages that physical therapy and allied health programs have encountered in utilizing a mastery learning approach are identified, based on a literature review and questioning of health educators. Recommendations concerning the implementation of this approach at California State University, Fresno are offered, along with a…

These three papers discuss the role of Florida's community colleges in developing training programs for mental health service employees in the state. Following introductory material, Robert Ashburn presents an overview of the Unit Treatment Rehabilitation (UTR) training program, which was designed to improve the quality of mental health care in…

This report contains a twenty-one page narrative of a project which provided inservice education to health occupations teachers in Central Pennsylvania through four summer workshops as well as the workshop materials. The narrative describes the workshops, which focused on dental assisting activities for health assistant teachers, improvement of…

APPENDIXES TO THE "FINAL REPORT," VOLUME I (VT 005 511), ARE INCLUDED--(1) A SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, (2) TECHNICAL BEHAVIOR CHECKLISTS, (3) PERFORMANCE INVENTORY FORMS USED IN ON-THE-JOB OBSERVATIONS, (4) REPORT FORM FOR TYPICAL JOB BEHAVIOR OF EMPLOYEE, (5) COOPERATING AREA HEALTH INSTITUTIONS, (6) TABLES OF…

EIGHTY-SIX NURSES FROM 25 STATES AND CANADA ATTENDED A WORKSHOP TO REVIEW THE PHILOSOPHY AND PURPOSE OF THE CURRICULUM IN ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS, IDENTIFY OBJECTIVES AS WELL AS CONTENT AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO MEET THE OBJECTIVES, AND CONSIDER MEANS OF EVALUATION. PRESENTATIONS WERE--"THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING CURRICULUM--ITS…

The environmental technician, a new but necessary subordinate of a professional environmentalist, might be employed by a health department, natural resources commission, state agriculture department, municipal water plant, or by business or industry in self-inspection and corrective activities. The Program of Teacher Education for Environmental…

The manual provides guidelines for the development and implementation of programs for medical office assistants. A procedural outline for the development of two curricula have been included: one for a one-year (four quarters) program offering a diploma in medical assisting; and the other for a two-year (six quarters) program leading to an…

Objectives of a 3-year articulation project were (1) to design and put into effect a curriculum for medical record personnel which would provide educational progression for associate arts degree medical record technicians to baccalaureate degree medical record administration programs, (2) to research, classify, and compare curriculum content of…

Educators in dentistry and osteopathy discuss efforts within their fields to diversify clinical education. Dental school changes focus on curriculum reform, closer education-care delivery relationship, patient centeredness, comprehensive care experiences, and patient care as a distinct mission of dental education. Efforts in osteopathy emphasize…

Chronicles development of the Baylor College of Dentistry (Texas) competency-based curriculum and outlines 11 lessons learned concerning strategic planning, external accountability, value of significant and continuing faculty participation, administrative support structures, linking planning and assessment, using multiple assessment methods,…

A survey of 138 dental hygiene program directors found dissatisfaction with program assessment practices and use of assessment data. Most use alumni/employer surveys and curriculum evaluations by students, but share results mostly with faculty. They use the data for curriculum revision but not for adding assessment measures, student remediation,…