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Rehabilitation Counseling; Counselors; Labor; Counselor Certification; Job Analysis; Labor Market

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The purpose of this research was to benchmark the importance and use of labor market survey (LMS) among U.S. certified rehabilitation counselors (CRCs). A secondary post hoc analysis of data collected via the "Rehabilitation Skills Inventory--Revised" for the 2011 Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification job analysis resulted in importance and use ratings across 11 content items and 11 demographic variables. This research suggests that labor market analyses, of which LMS could be a component, were considered to be along a continuum of "important" or "extremely important" by CRCs and performed along a range of "very infrequent" to "very frequent". Data suggest that those CRCs reporting the highest frequency of use of labor market analyses were older and male, possessed education in rehabilitation-orientated areas of study, had more than 20 years of post-CRC experience, were in the private/proprietary rehabilitation or private practice practitioner professional settings, and held the title of forensic/expert witness or rehabilitation consultant/specialist. For all survey items studied, employment setting and job title were found to be significant in the frequency of use of labor market analyses. Limitations, delimitations, and areas for further study were discussed. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Careers; Graduate Students; Career Exploration; Career Choice; Nonprofessional Personnel; Doctoral Degrees; Job Search Methods; Search Strategies; Occupational Information; Career Information Systems; Employment Qualifications; Job Analysis; Phenomenology; Employment Potential; Employment Practices; Educational Attainment

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Discussion of nonfaculty careers for graduate students so easily disintegrates into dueling anecdotes. The author describes a story about someone who had to drop his Ph.D. from his resume in order to get a job at all. Stories cluster around both of those poles in the comments section whenever the author has written about nonprofessorial career paths. Anecdotes about alternative jobs for Ph.D.'s proliferate because data are in short supply. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Health Education; Beginning Teachers; Experienced Teachers; Teacher Competencies; Job Analysis; Structured Interviews; Delphi Technique; Focus Groups; Online Surveys; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis

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The National Health Educator Job Analysis 2010 was conducted to update the competencies model for entry- and advanced-level health educators. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Structured interviews, focus groups, and a modified Delphi technique were implemented to engage 59 health educators from diverse work settings and experience levels in a seven-step instrument development process. An online survey was then completed by 1,022 practicing health educators. Survey participants used 4-point ordinal scales to rank subcompetencies by frequency of use and importance and related knowledge items by cognitive levels based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Composite scores were calculated and subgroup comparisons conducted to validate 223 subcompetencies at entry (162), advanced-1 (42), and advanced-2 (19) levels of practice, along with 113 knowledge items. Advanced-level versus entry-level competencies and a comparison with the Competency Update Project model of 2006 are discussed. Implications and recommendations for the profession are provided. (Contains 5 tables.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Guidelines; Supervisors; Supervisory Training; Internship Programs; Supervisory Methods; Supervisor Qualifications; Job Analysis; Job Skills; Occupational Information; Task Analysis; School Counseling

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Site supervisors rarely receive training at the master's level in the supervisory skills required for the supervision of intern students. General guidelines for site supervisors are presented in this article. The article suggests steps for a site supervisor to take prior to accepting an intern, procedures to follow during the internship, and information regarding the evaluation process. The appendices contain information that readers can tailor to the unique needs of a site supervisor. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Job Analysis; Surveys; Rating Scales; Scaling; Computer Software; Licensing Examinations (Professions); Item Response Theory; Real Estate; Computers; Occupations; Comparative Analysis

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This article discusses the use of the Many-Facets Rasch Model, via the FACETS computer program (Linacre, 2006a), to scale job/practice analysis survey data as well as to combine multiple rating scales into single composite weights representing the tasks' relative importance. Results from the Many-Facets Rasch Model are compared with those calculated from the Rasch Rating Scale Model (RRSM) (Spray & Huang, 2000) using two examples of actual job analysis data from diverse professions. In addition, this article proposes a solution for establishing the origin of the percentage scale when transferring the task importance weights from a logit unit into percentage weights. Although the resulting test specifications from the two compared methods are not radically different, a case is made that the use of the Many-Facets Rasch Model with a zero point based on the frequency rating scale provides a more justifiable basis for combining multiple rating scales and transforming task survey data. In addition, this study found that the Many-Facets Rasch Rating Model can better accommodate missing data than the RRSM method in situations in which respondents only rate subsets of the multiple scales and not all of the scales for the tasks being surveyed. (Contains 4 tables, 2 figures, and 3 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Private Schools; Middle Management; Administrative Organization; Deans; Administrator Role; Role Perception; Department Heads; Job Analysis; Performance Technology; Performance Factors; Educational Administration

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In the tight budget atmosphere of recent years, schools may have chosen to do without a dean of faculty or, at best, to double- hat another middle manager with this responsibility. This is a mistake. That all private schools do not have a dedicated dean of faculty suggests a lack of emphasis on the very component of the school--the faculty--that research has shown to be most important to student performance, satisfaction, and enthusiasm. Since the Great Recession of 2008, which placed increasing stress on heads of school to find development dollars and new students to maintain enrollment, a quality dean of faculty can be a critical player in the head's middle management team. While the over-pressured head of school can outline the school's mission and vision, the dean of faculty can play a critical role in ensuring the school delivers on its promises. Schools that have a dedicated, full-time dean of faculty will generally have the strongest faculty cultures, a clear sense of shared purpose among the faculty, high faculty retention, and a strong alignment between the school's mission and its program. This article discusses the six main roles of a dean, as well as important issues relating to the dean's role. (Contains 7 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Private Schools; Figurative Language; Admission (School); Admissions Officers; Job Analysis; School Holding Power; Enrollment Management; Student Recruitment; Performance Factors

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Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers' quipping radio broadcaster, makes his brief and lackluster career as a major league catcher the subject of much of his humor. About catching the knuckleball, Uecker famously said, "I always thought the knuckleball was the easiest pitch to catch." Of course, there is an even better way to catch a knuckleball, and the author's purpose here is to suggest that the qualities that define the best catchers of knuckleballers--mental and physical flexibility, a kind of clever patience, and perseverance--are the same qualities that define the ideal contemporary independent school admission director. The author will use the experiences of the admission director at the school he heads, but he would argue that the metaphor, in varying degrees, is applicable in all contemporary independent school markets. Since 2008, the yearly trends in the independent school admission environment have been knuckleballs, and necessarily, the most successful admission directors have much the same skill set as a knuckleball catcher. He or she is consummately well-prepared but wary of over-anticipating, imaginative enough to form a shifting definition of the new market realities but ready to abandon definitions that no longer have validity, flexible enough to arrange time and energy to follow the trends as they develop, and humble enough to accept bad guesses or to work harder to retrieve an inquiry that looked like it was getting away. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Careers; Credentials; Young Adults; Employment Opportunities; Career Choice; Longitudinal Studies; STEM Education; Professional Education; Professional Occupations; Professional Services; Paraprofessional Personnel; Job Analysis; Occupational Information; Job Skills; Skill Analysis; Labor Force Development; Educational Policy; Classification

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This article argues for the need to differentiate between "professional" and "support" careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), the article identifies important differences in the nature of the work and responsibility that differentiate the scientific workforce into a professional component and a support component. Further analysis demonstrates that the kind of training and education needed for STEMM support occupations is generally lower and different than the education needed for entrance into a STEMM profession. The LSAY data indicate that the students planning to enter a STEMM profession tend to make their choice earlier, select appropriate courses and programs to obtain professional credentials, and make a substantially longer commitment to educational preparation than do young adults who enter STEMM support occupations. We suggest some policy implications that may flow from this distinction. (Contains 2 tables.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Delphi Technique; Information Needs; High Schools; Adolescents; School Libraries; Librarians; Principals; Barriers; Health Behavior; Access to Information; User Needs (Information); Adolescent Attitudes; Adolescent Development; Library Services; Role Perception; Coordinators; Library Role; Administrator Attitudes; Sexuality; Health Education; Health Promotion; Performance Factors; Job Analysis

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Adolescents who receive current, accurate, reliable, and balanced sexual-health information are more likely to express healthier sexual attitudes and engage in healthier sexual behaviors than adolescents receiving limited or no sexual-health information. High school librarians have the potential to help meet sexual-health information needs of their adolescent patrons, thereby contributing to a healthier society. This Delphi study explored the role of high school librarians as sexual-health information provider, as perceived by two groups who supervise them: district-level library coordinators and high school principals. The two groups expressed conflicting expectations about high school librarians' playing this role. Members of the groups identified twelve motivators and five barriers to sexual-health information provision in high school libraries, both supporting and further contributing to previous findings of related research. (Contains 2 tables.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Mental Retardation; Job Analysis; Foreign Countries; Management Development; Semi Structured Interviews; Supervisors; Supervisor Qualifications; Supervisory Training; Minimum Competency Testing; Accessibility (for Disabled); Group Homes; Theory Practice Relationship; Occupational Surveys; Allied Health Personnel

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Background: Front-line managers of supported accommodation for people with intellectual disability are assumed to have a key role in the realisation of outcomes for service users. Yet, their job has been little researched. A job analysis from Minnesota that identified 142 competencies required of effective front-line managers was used to examine what was expected of the equivalent position in Victoria, Australia. Methods: These competencies formed the basis of semistructured interviews with an extreme sample of 16 high-performing house supervisors and 5 more senior managers. Results: Ninety-two percent of the original competences were retained, with changes in language and terminology to reflect the local context. Emergent findings highlighted the importance of house supervisors' "orientations." Conclusions: The findings support the proposition that the front-line manager's job is underpinned by core competencies and that the role merits further study. Issues of wider significance for human service organisations and researchers are discussed. (Contains 3 notes and 1 table.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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