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Course Demands Of Students In Teacher Education At Portland State University As Demonstrated By An Induced Course Load Matrix, Elinore Janet Rogers
Course Demands Of Students In Teacher Education At Portland State University As Demonstrated By An Induced Course Load Matrix, Elinore Janet Rogers
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The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships between the School of Education and the rest of the university by means of the course demands placed by elementary education majors and graduate education students on other academic departments during the fall terms of 1972 and 1973. It also examined the course demands placed on the School of Education by other major groups for this period. The Induced Course Load Matrix (ICLM) was the vehicle used in this examination. The hypothesis tested were 1) that elementary education majors and graduate education students placed equal course demands on the other …
Managing Human Services, Betsy W. Romain
Managing Human Services, Betsy W. Romain
Dissertations and Theses
Professional schools have realized for some time that there is an uncomfortable gap between the requirements of their academic curriculum and the realities of a professional job. The skills required, performance level and final product, are noticeably different in the academic world than in the work world. This void between what is required in school and what is required on the job, has become of increasing concern as larger numbers of academically qualified students compete for a decreasingly smaller number of jobs. Additionally, institutes of higher education, caught in current day fiscal realities, are under pressure from both students and …