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Kim, Jungwon; Doo, Min Young – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
This study examined three influential factors of junior college students' learning engagement: (a) intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, (b) career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE), and (c) self-regulation. Participants included 206 students enrolled in the secretarial administration program in a junior college in South Korea. The primary…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Career Choice, Decision Making, Self Efficacy
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Ellis, Maureen; Kisling, Eric; Hackworth, Robbie G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study identifies the soft skills community colleges teach in an office technology course and determines whether the skills taught are congruent with the soft skills employers require in today's entry-level office work. A qualitative content analysis of a community college office technology soft skills course was performed using 23 soft skills…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Skill Development, Skill Analysis, Job Skills
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Fair, Brandy; Wickersham, Leah E. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2012
The problem under investigation for this study was to identify a method for determining a student's potential for success in an online communication course using the Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (READI) assessment instrument as a predictor. The READI tool focuses on six areas that students should score well on in order to be…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Jayasundera, Tamara; Hanson, Andrew R. – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2012
For recent high school graduates, life is tough. In the past year, one in four young high school graduates was unemployed and over half were underemployed. In the past decade, recent high school graduates' wages have fallen by 12 percent to just $19,400 annually in 2011, below the poverty threshold for a family of four. The downward plight of high…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employment, Education Work Relationship, Job Training
Malott, J. O. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to commercial education: (1) Introduction; (2) Trends revealed by enrollment statistics; (3) Research basis for objectives; (4) Commercial occupation surveys; (5) Office equipment surveys; (6) Job analyses; (7)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Business Education, Business Administration Education
Parke, Beryl, Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of about 500 publications issued by the U.S. Office of Education through October 1961, including recent editions of annual surveys which, since the academic year 1869-70, have become traditional publications of the Office of Education, providing data and forecasts concerning finances,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Government Publications, Annotated Bibliographies