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Walstad, William; Milkman, Martin I.; McCoy, James P. – Journal of Economic Education, 2008
The authors compare various characteristics of terminal master's of economics programs in Canada and the United States. As far as they know, this is the first article to present results from a survey of Canadian master's programs in economics. Using a Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, they found significant differences between the Canadian and U.S.…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Masters Programs, Differences, Comparative Analysis
Pomeranz, Jamie L.; Byers, Katherine L.; Moorhouse, Michael D.; Velozo, Craig A.; Spitznagel, Ronald J. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2008
Rasch analysis offers researchers an innovative method for developing and validating rehabilitation instruments. Despite the increased use of Rasch analysis by allied health researchers, this method continues to be underutilized by rehabilitation counseling professionals. In the rehabilitation counseling profession, vocational evaluators use…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Evaluators, Job Placement, Measurement Techniques
Miles, Marty; Maguire, Sheila; Woodruff-Bolte, Stacy; Clymer, Carol – Public/Private Ventures, 2010
As public and private funders have focused on evaluating the effectiveness of workforce development programs, a myriad of data collection systems and reporting processes have taken shape. Navigating these systems takes significant time and energy and often saps frontline providers' capacity to use data internally for program improvement.…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Benchmarking
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2015
In January 2010, the General Assembly passed the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA), a comprehensive reform agenda that seeks to transform public higher education through changes in academic, fiscal and administrative policies at the state and institutional level. While the higher education landscape has been shaped by the CCTA, higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Perlstein, Linda – Aspen Institute, 2011
The nation's community colleges share a common and vital purpose: preparing students--young and working adults--for jobs and continued academic study. Today, over 7 million community college students strive to attain a degree that will expand their opportunity, whether they aim to graduate directly into the workforce or continue on to seek a…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, College Role
Dougherty, Kevin J.; Natow, Rebecca S. – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2009
Performance funding in higher education ties state funding directly to institutional performance on specific indicators, such as rates of retention, graduation, and job placement. One of the great puzzles about performance funding is that it has been both popular and unstable. Between 1979 and 2007, 26 states enacted it, but 14 of those states…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Placement, Business, State Government
Owen, Susanne; Stupans, Ieva – Journal of Learning Design, 2009
Preparing graduates for the professions is increasingly recognised as involving a partnership approach to curriculum design, implementation and evaluation. Experiential placements play a critical role in developing discipline-specific knowledge and skills and also generic professional dispositions including relationships, communication, problem…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Curriculum Development, Pharmacy, Experiential Learning
Castro, Edward Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose: The study's purpose was to determine the degree to which connoisseurship and educational criticism exists in student work evaluation; to identify master teachers' methods utilizing verbal feedback; and to determine the degree that project-based learning (PBL) principles serve as a "model of practice" for selected PBL technology…
Descriptors: Expertise, Feedback (Response), Classroom Techniques, Student Projects
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2010
This report is prepared pursuant to T.C.A. (Tennessee Code Annotated) Section 49-7-210. As specified, this report provides information as required for public four-year institutions, public two-year institutions, and public technology centers. (Contains 18 tables.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
Stewart, Barbara R.; Martin, Charles L., Jr.; Steedle, Lamont F. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Exit interviews of university graduating seniors have been used to a very limited extent when evaluating academic programs. It is our belief that developing and implementing an exit interview plan stimulates faculty dialog and improves ongoing feedback for department program assessment. From 2001 to 2007, the Accounting Department at Towson…
Descriptors: Accounting, Graduate Surveys, College Seniors, Interviews
Nealy, Michelle J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
Dwayne Ashley, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), is an unruffled perfectionist who is never satisfied with the status quo. When a challenge presents itself, Ashley eagerly seeks out a solution. His motto: find a way or make one. This article describes Ashley's solution when he discovered that corporate America was not…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Dress Codes, Databases, School Counselors
Little, Brenda; Harvey, Lee – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
Increasing expectations are being placed on higher education institutions to ensure the economic relevance of research and knowledge creation as well as developing the skill needs of workers in modern knowledge-based societies. In the UK, workplace learning has long been a feature of higher education in certain subject areas, and in the late 1990s…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Work Experience, Intellectual Development, Foreign Countries
Mulvihill, Patrick; Repetto, Jeanne B.; Andrews, Drew; Gritz, Sheila – ERS Spectrum, 2008
Through current hiring practices, many school districts may be missing an untapped pool of potential employees--individuals with disabilities. In this article, the authors describe the Hiring Practice Initiative (HPI) and its implementation in 17 Florida school districts. The Hiring Practice Initiative Project goals are to: (a) increase the…
Descriptors: Employment, Personnel Selection, School Districts, Employment Practices
Saloviita, Timo; Pirttimaa, Raija – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
The longitudinal status of supported employment in Finland was examined via a 2003 nationwide survey sent to job coaches involved in supporting workers with intellectual and other disabilities. Sustained supported employment, defined as "paid work in integrated settings with ongoing supports that contained at least two on-site visits per…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Disabilities
Summerville, Jennifer; Bolliger, Doris U. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
The job seeking and candidate selection process in academia can be mystifying to recent or soon to be graduates. Many graduate students have expressed concern about the fact that they do not feel quite prepared for the application process, and they have raised many questions while attending sessions and visiting on-site job placement centers at…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Development, Graduates, Educational Technology