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Asma Albahli – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The pandemic and post pandemic job market showed the importance of online professional training for employees to improve professional skills necessary to acquire skills to adapt to the new environment and get promoted in their current professions, while contributing to organizations' success. The present dissertation study utilized the Unified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Job Training, Gender Differences
Matthew Johnston – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to analyze the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) employment in airline pilot training. Specifically, this study conducted an experiment that introduced VR equipment into the Multi-Crew Cooperation (MCC) course in the United Kingdom (UK). Increasing pilot throughput in airline pilot training is critical as demands for…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Air Transportation, Job Training, Technology Integration
Donaghy, Ryan JoAnn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Women's education has been promoted as both a key objective of the global campaign for gender equality and as a "sine qua non" of long-term sustainable development. In the extant literature, non-formal education has been advanced as a tool for social change and women's empowerment. Moreover, recent reports published by international…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Sustainable Development
Acheampong, Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this comparative study was to identify the technical skills and abilities needed by prospective employees of construction industries in Ghana and Nigeria. Potential employees were defined here as recent graduates of construction industry programs with entry-level technical skills. The continuous growth in and expansion of these two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Huang, WenRou – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare the influences of the classroom training and the structured on-the-job training (S-OJT) approaches on trainees' self-efficacy to achieve the training outcomes among bankers in Taiwan. Based on the conditions for training effectiveness identified in the literature, the study examined whether trainees with…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, On the Job Training, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Tusiime, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the experiences of Kigali Institute of Education students using a framework of democratic education theories. In Rwanda, the discriminatory and non-critical education system is believed to have been one of the major causes for the civil strife that has characterized the country, beginning in its post independence to its…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Zhou, Yisu – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the past two decades, the issue of out-of-field teaching (OFT) has concerned policy makers and researchers alike who see raising teachers' subject matter knowledge as the main policy lever to improve teacher quality. The study of OFT has emerged as one of the important subfields of teacher quality and teacher labour market research.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Smith, Walter L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Precepting, coaching, and mentoring are teaching methods used extensively in nursing education in U.S. healthcare facilities. Filipino nurse immigrants have cultural backgrounds that may influence their experience with and perspectives of these learning interventions. Although Filipino nurse immigrants comprise approximately 0.2% of the population…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Nursing, Foreign Countries
Abreo, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Indigenous education in Guatemala is currently undergoing a massive overhaul in the depth and breadth of its reach in Maya areas. Although much can be said about the re-evaluation and incorporation of indigenous culture, language and worldview into the schools' curricula, it is still failing to reach the country's adult population. As a result of…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Community Education, Maya (People), American Indian Education
Yano, Satoko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
After the fall of the Soviet Union and its transition in the 1990s towards a democratic form of government, Mongolia was forced to embark upon a complete series of reforms within society, including within its education sector. Mongolia's higher education sector was significantly affected by this change. Private higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Change, Mixed Methods Research
Kraft, Milton Edward – ProQuest LLC, 1934
The purpose of professional training is to prepare Individual to perform the various task of society requiring a high degree of skill and learning. The function of any professional requirement or examinations is to assist in the selection of those who are to perform these tasks. The importance of these facts lends great significance to any system…
Descriptors: Job Training, Evaluation, Personnel Selection, Government Role