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Regional Spotlight, 1976
Focusing upon the emergence of multidisciplinary action on southern campuses involved in rural development activities, this newsletter traces the southern rural development efforts from their inception to present times and offers projections regarding the future. Specifically, this document presents information on: the development of the land…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agriculture, Child Care
Field, Marilyn J., Ed.; And Others – 1995
Health services research is a multidisciplinary field that investigates the structure, processes, and effects of health care services. This report focuses on one part of the field of health services research--its work force and its programs for educating and training that work force. This study undertook the following information collection…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Career Development, Data Collection, Databases
Hamel, Thomas – 1994
One of the most distinctive features of academic departments in community colleges is their multi-disciplinary nature. While the creation of multi-disciplinary departments usually results from pragmatic considerations, they do present some advantages over one-subject departments in that faculty are obliged to learn other disciplines and a system…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Collegiality, Community Colleges
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Schegloff, Emanuel A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Recent work on the occurrence of "uh" and "uhm" in ordinary talk-in-interaction is concerned almost exclusively with its relation to trouble in the speech production process. After touching briefly on this environment of occurrence, this conversation-analytic article focuses attention on several interactional environments in which "uh(m)" figures…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Standard Spoken Usage, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Kuralt, Sally K. – 1990
This study attempted system-wide institutionalization of a consultation-based ancillary service delivery model into the norms and work behaviors of the elementary school organization, through modifying the role and function of members of existent school-based multidisciplinary Child Study Teams (CSTs) and the demonstration of the potential of the…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Elementary Education
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Kowalski, Christoph; Driller, Elke; Ernstmann, Nicole; Alich, Saskia; Karbach, Ute; Ommen, Oliver; Schulz-Nieswandt, Frank; Pfaff, Holger – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Background: Many people working in human services in Western countries suffer from burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal performance. Prevention of emotional exhaustion (the first phase of burnout) constitutes a great challenge because emotional exhaustion may cause increasing turnover rates in…
Descriptors: Human Services, Fatigue (Biology), Physical Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Sheaves, David, Comp. – 1983
This is a resource directory for professionals who work with young adolescents (10- to 15-year-olds). It is a multidisciplinary list of organizations, publications, and readings to help professionals in their research and practice. Although the directory is not meant to be all-inclusive, an attempt has been made to include the major networks,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advocacy, Clearinghouses, Community Services
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Kecskemethy, Thomas A. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: The Research Training Grant (RTG) program at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education aimed to create strong research training experiences for predissertation fellows through generous financial aid, mentored research apprenticeships, and cocurricular experiences. Collectively these offerings sought to…
Descriptors: Student Research, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Doctoral Programs
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Menear, Kristi Sayers; Sims, Sandra K.; Phillips, John – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2007
Fitness testing is an important assessment tool used by physical educators for many purposes. Some states require fitness testing to monitor individual student progress throughout the school year. Some physical educators use it to monitor the effects of the physical education curriculum and to teach concepts such as goal setting and personal…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Evaluation, Testing, Physical Fitness
WELLMAN, FRANK E. – 1966
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING INSTITUTE WAS PROVIDED FOR A SELECT GROUP OF 40 STATE AND LOCAL VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PERSONNEL EMPLOYED IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. THE DESIGN OF THE INSTITUTE EMPHASIZED THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERSTANDINGS, KNOWLEDGES, AND PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS RELATED TO (1) ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counselor Training
Pracana, Clara, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2014, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 4 to 6 of April. Psychology, in our time, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Prevention
Russ-Eft, Darlene – 1980
As part of a symposium on challenges and problems of adult education researchers in different settings, recent research activities at one private independent research organization were examined. Three projects of the American Instituties for Research (AIR) were reviewed, all relating to adult development and aging. The first examined career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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Iwasaki, Shimako – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Shifting from a focus on transitions between speakers at turn boundaries, this study examines projective and multimodal structures "inside" a turn-constructional unit (TCU), out of which any turn is built. It analyzes how particular noun-phrasal components within a TCU become projective and shape interactive turn spaces (ITSs) where…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Japanese, Interaction
Kinney, Jean – 1989
This bibliography and resource guide for social work educators aims to provide easy entrance to the literature on alcohol and other drug use. The introduction notes that some characteristics of the literature make access difficult. Literature on alcohol and other drugs is multi-disciplinary and thus appears in many different areas of publication;…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Family Health, Higher Education
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