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Tracey Glover-Chambers; Bonnie Amelia Dean; Michelle J. Eady; Conor West; Sarah Ryan; Venkata Yanamandram – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Career development learning (CDL) equips students with the skills, knowledge and resources to navigate their careers amidst dynamic work and learning environments. While CDL is known to be facilitated by central careers services in higher education institutions, embedding CDL activities within the curriculum is purported to be an effective…
Descriptors: Career Development, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship, Educational Strategies
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Abdullah, Hardi K.; Hassanpour, Badiossadat – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
Leading architectural firms in professional practice are expanding their range of design possibilities using digital design strategies. A digital design strategy enables architects to make informed decisions and better handle the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline, while dealing with various complexities, uncertainties and an infinite…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Building Design, Curriculum, Career Development
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Berend Wierenga; Maciej Szymanowski; Gerrit H. van Bruggen – Marketing Education Review, 2024
What are the success factors for careers in marketing? This important question is lacking a definite answer so far. This paper presents an empirical study of the drivers of marketing career success. First, we interviewed renowned marketing executives about the characteristics that, in their view, make successful marketers. Next, we analyzed data…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Careers, Success
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Pence, Erica K.; Kaiser, Michelle L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
Social workers are ethically bound to engage in political action. Serving in elected office is one influential way they can fulfill this responsibility. The purpose of this study was to identify ways social work education and professional organizations can support elected office as a social work career trajectory. Nine political social workers who…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Political Attitudes, Public Officials
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Norris, William; Swortzel, Kirk A.; McCubbins, O. P. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2023
Throughout agricultural education's 100+ year history, teacher effectiveness/confidence has remained a consistent factor in student achievement. Furthermore, targeted professional development has commonly been used to improve teacher effectiveness/confidence. With 50% of educators exiting the profession within five years, finding ways to improve…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development
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Pfund, Rory A.; Hailstorks, Robin; Stamm, Karen E.; Christidis, Peggy; Conroy, Jessica C.; Norcross, John C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Despite the multiple benefits of the careers in psychology course, it is not universally offered in undergraduate programs. Teachers who wish to design such a course may wonder about its typical number of credits, when students should take the course, and how much it uses a common curriculum across sections. The 2018 Undergraduate Study in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Majors (Students), Career Education
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Choate, Julia; Vojisavljevic, Danica; Carroll, Fiona Y.; Carroll, David; Filby, Caitlin E.; Dichtl, Bernhard – Higher Education Studies, 2022
To foster a "wellbeing curriculum" in a climate with an increasingly competitive graduate jobs market, we believe it is critical to support undergraduate career development and to develop positive peer and educator relationships, particularly for non-vocational degree programs. However, these relationships between undergraduate wellbeing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables
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Bandaranaike, Suniti; Orozco Quijano, Elsa Patricia; Navarrete-Baez, Francisco Ernesto – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
In the current context of COVID-19 and the limited availability of physical workplace settings for work-integrated learning (WIL), this study explores the intervention of a WIL pedagogical strategy in order to support career development learning during the pandemic. The innovative Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) reflective model introduced at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Work Experience Programs
Skaggs, Rachel – Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, 2017
The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) is an online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system designed to enhance the impact of an arts school education. In 2015, SNAAP developed a Topical Module with in-depth questions about arts entrepreneurship and career skills. Career skills are increasingly regarded as a…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Entrepreneurship, Training, Artists
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Gu, Jibao; Zhao, Di; Wu, Jianlin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Universities exert generous efforts to take advantage of curriculum to help students succeed in the competitive employment market. However, it remains unclear whether perceived employability (PE), as the crucial indicator of the career success of students, can be improved by the curriculum. In accordance with Job Demands-Resources theory, this…
Descriptors: Universities, Career Development, Graduate Students, Student Motivation
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Conklin, Hilary G. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
In this comparative, longitudinal case study, the author investigates the two different pathways that have been most strongly advocated for certifying middle school social studies teachers: the specialized middle school and subject-specific secondary pathways. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, documents, teacher and student work…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
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Kovarik, Dina N.; Patterson, Davis G.; Cohen, Carolyn; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peterson, Karen A.; Porter, Sandra G.; Chowning, Jeanne Ting – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
We investigated the effects of our Bio-ITEST teacher professional development model and bioinformatics curricula on cognitive traits (awareness, engagement, self-efficacy, and relevance) in high school teachers and students that are known to accompany a developing interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. The…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, High Schools, Secondary School Science, STEM Education
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2012
In an effort to inform preschool policy in California, an interdisciplinary team of RAND researchers conducted a multiyear study of preschool education known as the California Preschool Study. One of the recommendations from that study was the need for a more in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of the early care and education (ECE) workforce…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education
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Moody, Barbara; Kruse, Gordon; Nagel, Jeffrey; Conlon, Bill – Journal of Correctional Education, 2008
This qualitative study examined student perceptions of the Career Development curriculum used at Robert Farrell School. Students at Robert Farrell School are required to complete a career project to fulfill the Oregon State requirement that students demonstrate career skills to earn a high school diploma. There is substantial evidence indicating…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Labor Market, Labor, Career Exploration
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Burkett, Christopher; Gimbert, Belinda G. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2009
This research evaluated South Carolina's Program of Alternative Certification for Educators (PACE). Specifically, the study analyzed this nontraditional teacher preparation pathway's outcomes: to recruit, train, and retain effective beginning teachers who fill the growing teacher vacancies in rural South Carolina. From an in-depth review of the…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Teacher Recruitment
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