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Levin, Eve – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Under the auspices of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), the Department of History at the University of Kansas recast its doctoral program to emphasize career preparation. Its creative approach has earned the department national visibility. In this article, the author describes how the department came to reenvision graduate education,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, History Instruction, Educational Change, Career Development
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Di Pierro, Marianne – College Student Journal, 2007
At Western Michigan University, the Graduate Center for Research, Writing, and Proposal Development sustains both doctoral students and graduate advising faculty through the doctoral dissertation process and represents one best practices approach that promotes persistence in graduate education--an especially important benefit, given the national…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Faculty Advisers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Johnson, Hazel; Thomas, Alan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
A recent study carried out by European and African organizations into the potential for electronic distance training (EDT) on sustainability in African local governments concluded that EDT was both "useful and feasible". This article reflects on some of the theoretical and practical implications of that study. It focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Information, Sustainable Development, Local Government
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Burke, Lisa A. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2007
Given that many doctoral programs do not provide extensive training on how to present course information in the classroom, the current paper looks to educational psychology theory and research for guidance. Richard Mayer and others' copious empirical work on effective and ineffective instructional design, along with relevant research findings in…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, Instructional Design, Educational Psychology
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Ojedokun, Ayoku A.; Moahi, Kgomotso H. – Education for Information, 2007
This study probed the use of digital library skills by MLIS graduates, and their perception of employment preparation for the emergent information market in Botswana. The study used a survey approach. The study was carried out in 2004. A total of 32 MLIS graduates (1996-2003) of the Department of Library and Information Studies in employment were…
Descriptors: Job Training, Information Systems, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Knasel, Eddy; Meed, John; Rossetti, Anna; Read, Hilary – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2006
This guide is aimed at anyone in work-based training who is responsible for learners during their first few weeks. Readers will (1) understand the value and purpose of initial assessment in key skills and Skills for Life; (2) become familiar with a range of techniques for the initial assessment; (3) plan an initial assessment system that is…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Trainers, Assessment Centers (Personnel), On the Job Training
Freeman, Mara; Kim, EunJee; Kim, Eunok Alice; Valenziano, Laura; Gitonga, Jacqueline; Benson, Angela – Online Submission, 2006
Increasing interest in research on workplace learning and performance provides an ideal opportunity to examine how much research is actually published and to identify the focus of research in HRD. This study involved a content analysis of articles on workplace learning and performance published in the four AHRD journals. Results indicated studies…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Improvement
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Greenberg, David H.; Michalopoulos, Charles; Robin, Philip K. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
This paper uses meta-analysis to investigate whether random assignment (or experimental) evaluations of voluntary government-funded training programs for the disadvantaged have produced different conclusions than nonexperimental evaluations. Information includes several hundred estimates from 31 evaluations of 15 programs that operated between…
Descriptors: Males, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Meta Analysis
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Raphael, Steven; Stoll, Michael A. – Evaluation Review, 2006
This article examines the effect of the Massachusetts workforce development system on the earnings of disadvantaged adults using nonexperimental data from the late 1990s. The authors construct a comparison sample for program participants using individuals who apply for and are offered services yet do not participate in a training program. They…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Labor Force, Attendance, Economically Disadvantaged
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Smith, Raymond – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report and discuss research that sought to explore how the individually purposeful nature of new employee workplace learning might be understood through its conception as epistemological agency, that is, the personally mediated construction of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sociocultural…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Employees, Ethnography, Epistemology
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Lee, Yew-Jin; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight some methodological problems concerning the neglect of participants' voices by workplace ethnographers and neglect of the highly interactional and co-constructive nature of research interviewing. The study aims to use discourse analysis, to show the phenomena of workplace learning and expertise to…
Descriptors: Animals, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Interviews
Levy, Abigail J.; Pasquale, Marian M.; Marco, Lisa – Science Educator, 2008
This article describes the outgrowth of a recently held invitational conference, supported by the National Science Foundation, to define, describe, and examine existing models for the use of elementary science specialists. The authors explore the educational, policy, and financial issues that affect the use of science specialists as well as offer…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Models, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Spaulding, Shayne; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Wallace, Dee – Public/Private Ventures, 2009
Noncustodial fathers have an essential role to play--both financially and emotionally--in the lives of their children. However, of the 11 million noncustodial fathers in the US, two thirds do not pay any formal child support. Many of these fathers are poor themselves and face multiple barriers, including low education levels, limited work…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Job Training, Financial Support, Fathers
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Lemmon, Alistair – Youth Studies Australia, 2008
Twenty young people with a history of incarceration, substance abuse and disconnection provided Whitelion with insight into "what worked" in changing their at-risk behaviours. The answer was obvious--state support beyond 18 years of age, perhaps until the mid-twenties. These young people require specialised intervention, and help…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, State Aid, Job Training, Young Adults
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Finlay, Ian; Hodgson, Ann; Steer, Richard – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
In this paper we argue that learning in the workplace can bring considerable benefits for learners and employers. It draws on data from in-depth interviews and secondary sources from eight sites of work-based learning as part of wider research into the effects of five national policy mechanisms within the Learning and Skills Sector. We also have…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Workplace Literacy, Organizational Development, Economic Impact
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