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Integration of Vocational and Academic Curricula Through the NSF Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE)
This paper reviews the conceptual framework of academic and vocational education integration by referring to past studies and research results. After describing the data and research methodology that were used for this study, the authors review specific activities in curriculum development, particularly focusing on how academic and occupational components are integrated in the process of curriculum development. They then examine the dissemination of the developed curriculum. The dissemination is discussed in terms of how the ATE curriculum is being used in different college departments including vocational programs, academic departments, and non-credit based workforce development programs. The authors go on to investigate how their findings in curriculum development and dissemination are related to issues in articulation and transfer to four-year programs. The paper concludes with a summary and implications of the findings
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Institutionalization and Sustainability of the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program
This three-year study closely examined six ATE projects and four national centers. The analysis was specifically concerned with the ability of the ATE projects and centers to meet the program's goal of having a significant and permanent influence on the host colleges and on the system of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM) in general. Thus, the report discusses (1) the institutionalization of the projects and centers--the extent to which their activities are becoming incorporated into the normal, ongoing activities of the host community colleges; and (2) their sustainability--the extent to which the major activities of the ATE program continue after the NSF grant expires. The report concludes that the ATE program has an impressive record of accomplishment, particularly in the influence it has had on curriculum and professional development, and on bringing together community colleges, universities, high schools, businesses, and other groups in a unique initiative to improve the education of our nation's STEM technicians
Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Evaluation: Implications of Cytokeratin 19 Expression for the Adoption of OSNA in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
A comprehensive overview of radioguided surgery using gamma detection probe technology
The concept of radioguided surgery, which was first developed some 60 years ago, involves the use of a radiation detection probe system for the intraoperative detection of radionuclides. The use of gamma detection probe technology in radioguided surgery has tremendously expanded and has evolved into what is now considered an established discipline within the practice of surgery, revolutionizing the surgical management of many malignancies, including breast cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancer, as well as the surgical management of parathyroid disease. The impact of radioguided surgery on the surgical management of cancer patients includes providing vital and real-time information to the surgeon regarding the location and extent of disease, as well as regarding the assessment of surgical resection margins. Additionally, it has allowed the surgeon to minimize the surgical invasiveness of many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, while still maintaining maximum benefit to the cancer patient. In the current review, we have attempted to comprehensively evaluate the history, technical aspects, and clinical applications of radioguided surgery using gamma detection probe technology