This paper reports on an initiative to reduce the failure rate in an undergraduate accounting information systems course without compromising academic standards. The initiative relied on the development of generic skills in the major assessment tasks. The result was to significantly improve the amount of effort students applied to their internal assessment tasks and also to reduce the overall f...

It appears that while the immediate objectives of the agriculturist differ from those of the academic biologist, the long-range needs for standards of growth and aging, for physiologically equivalent units of time and mass, and for knowledge of the influence and mechanisms of various internal and external factors on growth and related processes are the same for both. This suggests that these tw...

BACKGROUND Gatekeeping safeguards access to the practice of a profession to ensure the quality of clinical services. It involves selective admission, continuous evaluation, and timely and ethical decisions in response to trainees with severe professional competency problems (SPCP). To date, little information is available concerning gatekeeping practices in the field of music therapy. OBJECTI...

BACKGROUND Major academic ophthalmology departments have been expanding by opening multi-office locations ("satellites"). This paper offers a first glimpse into satellites of academic ophthalmology departments. METHODS Leaders of seven medium to large, geographically diverse departments agreed to participate. One- to two-hour phone interviews were conducted to assess the features of their sat...

Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market was strong while the 1997 market was much weaker. A multimarket theory of optimal search suggests that job seekers will respond to a weakening market by...