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Friedrich, Anett – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
In Germany, about half of the school-leavers -- irrespective of their school-leaving certificate -- start an apprenticeship instead of entering the labour market or university. Firms act as gatekeepers who influence which school-leavers start an apprenticeship. Previous studies have provided important information on the reasons firms train. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Employees
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Petzold, Knut – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
International student mobility (ISM) is considered increasingly important for professional careers. Referring to theories of human capital and job market signalling, we assume that different forms of ISM experience can serve as signals for general, specific and transnational human capital. To test this idea, we use a factorial survey experiment to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad
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Stoesz, Brenda M.; De Jaeger, Amy E.; Quesnel, Matthew; Bhojwani, Dimple; Los, Ryan – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
Student ratings of instruction (SRI) are commonly used to evaluate courses and teaching in higher education. Much debate about their validity in evaluating teaching exists, which is due to concerns of bias by factors unrelated to teaching quality (Spooren et al., 2013). Our objective was to identify peer-reviewed original research published in…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Bias, Gender Bias, Minority Group Teachers
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Chankseliani, Maia; Anuar, Aizuddin Mohamed – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Purpose: A fundamental assumption of the apprenticeship model is that there are benefits to both employers and individual learners. This study offers a broad conceptual interrogation of this inherent assumption underpinning the apprenticeship model. Approach: This study combines analysis of literature and available data and draws upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Apprenticeships, Incentives
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Imdorf, Christian – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Children of immigrants from non-EU countries face particular problems to access apprenticeship training in German-speaking countries. In this context this article asks how recruiters in small and medium sized companies (SME) make sense of national and ethnic origin when hiring new apprentices. The author proposes Boltanski and Thévenot's theory of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Personnel Selection, Apprenticeships
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Akbasli, Sait; Sahin, Mehmet; Gül, Burak – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of this study is to analyze the process of school principal selection and appointment in Turkey and some other developed countries in a comparative way. The specific purpose is to make suggestions in order to improve the school principal selection process in Turkey by comparatively analyzing school principal selection process in Turkey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Principals
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Bank, Natasha; Kanda, Wisdom – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Recruitment and support processes in sustainability-profiled incubators have received little research attention. The article addresses this knowledge gap in an empirical investigation of three sustainability-oriented incubators in Sweden, Finland and Germany. The data are based on interviews with managers, stakeholders and tenants in Green Tech…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes, Stakeholders
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Petzold, Knut – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
By virtue of the internationalisation of economies, international student mobility is considered increasingly important for professional careers. However, most studies focus on the supply-side by using graduate surveys, which face problems of graduates' self-selection. Other studies on employers' opinions often lack rigour analysis and report…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Employer Attitudes, Vignettes, Foreign Countries
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Oliveri, María Elena; Tannenbaum, Richard J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
This report explores the ways in which human resource (HR) managers use "TOEIC"® scores to inform hiring, promotion, and training decisions in an international workplace. Two data sources were used (a) previously collected test users' testimonials that described managers' use of TOEIC scores to inform HR decisions and (b) test-use…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Scores
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Lundgren, Henriette; Kroon, Brigitte; Poell, Rob F. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why personality tests are used in workplace training. This research paper is guided by three research questions that inquire about the role of external and internal stakeholders, the value of psychometric and practical considerations in test selection, and the purpose of personality test use…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Personality Measures
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Branine, Mohamed; Avramenko, Alex – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of higher education and the graduate labour markets in selected European countries (France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) in the context of the expectations of graduates and prospective employers, and respective recruitment and selection practices. Expectations of graduating students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Employment, College Graduates
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Protsch, Paula – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Employers' recruitment behaviour in entry labour markets is central for young people's transitions from school to work. Whereas previous research has focused on the effects of specific applicant characteristics, I concentrate on how organisational characteristics, namely organisation size and private or public sector affiliation, relate to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Decision Making, Institutional Characteristics, Recruitment
Kis, Viktoria; Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper looks at the importance of mechanisms that give formal recognition to vocational skills acquired through work-based learning and how such mechanisms might be developed. It describes how skill recognition can benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole, and identifies in which contexts skill recognition has the highest…
Descriptors: Job Skills, On the Job Training, Skill Development, Professional Recognition
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Imdorf, Christian; Leemann, Regula J. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
This study investigates whether occupational training networks enable the selection of apprentices to be less discriminatory. Training networks are a new organisational form of VET that is becoming increasingly widespread in Switzerland, as well as in Germany and Austria. In the Swiss model, an intermediary lead organisation recruits the…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Networks
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Makransky, Guido; Glas, Cees A. W. – International Journal of Testing, 2013
Cognitive ability tests are widely used in organizations around the world because they have high predictive validity in selection contexts. Although these tests typically measure several subdomains, testing is usually carried out for a single subdomain at a time. This can be ineffective when the subdomains assessed are highly correlated. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Adaptive Testing, Feedback (Response)
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