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Kellems, Ryan O.; Grigal, Meg; Unger, Darlene D.; Simmons, Thomas J.; Bauder, Debra; Williams, Caroline – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
Devices like smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players are becoming everyday tools for the majority of the population. Technology can assist students with disabilities in many self-determination activities, such as choice making, decision making, and self-management. In addition, technology tools can support them in a wide range of transition-related…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Career Development
Musgrove, Kate Racoff; Derzis, Nicholas C.; Shippen, Margaret E.; Brigman, Holly E. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2012
The study assessed the effectiveness of the Preparing Inmates for Re-Entry through Assistance, Training, and Employment Skills (PIRATES) group, which focused on improving dysfunctional career thoughts. Participants were male offenders (n = 14) enrolled in a re-entry training class. Results showed a statistically significant decrease in…
Descriptors: Criminals, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Job Skills
Ross, Michaela; Kiernan, Reilly; Murphy, Devin; Bielak, Debby – Bridgespan Group, 2016
This document is part of a Bridgespan Group research project that focused on the question: "How could a philanthropist make the biggest improvement on social mobility with an investment of $1 billion?" In answering this question, the authors have sought to understand "what matters most" for improving social mobility outcomes.…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Investment, Barriers, Low Income Groups
Porter, Susan D.; Phelps, Jennifer M. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2014
An early consensus in the ongoing discourse about graduate student preparation for diverse careers was that graduates lacked competencies relevant to non-academic professional settings. Lists of missing "skills" were developed that universities and agencies sought to address, most commonly by the offering of generic (transferable) skills…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, College Faculty, Career Development
Sarma, Alaka; Mukhtar, Mazin – Childhood Education, 2017
Akshar Forum, an experimental livelihood school in the semi-rural village of Pamohi, Assam, in Northeast India, tests cutting-edge methods in education in the context of underserved communities and rural development programs. Started in 2015, the school links 42 children and their parents to the vast knowledge resources of the Internet to teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Rural Development, Geographic Regions
Hyslop, Alisha; Imperatore, Catherine – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2013
Education in the United States is facing a crisis of completion and performance, both at the secondary and postsecondary levels, with high dropout rates and a significant number of students ill-prepared for further education and careers. These problems are even more acute in America's urban schools. Today's CTE is on the cutting edge of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Urban Education, Urban Schools
Chan, Andy; Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2013
Why do another study on the Arts and Sciences (A&S) students (often referred to as liberal arts students) when the media, politicians, and many labor market pundits have been constantly devaluing their worth? When the value of education is under close scrutiny and parents are pushing their sons and daughters toward academic majors that lead to…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Value Judgment, Academic Degrees, Success
Mahmood, Lynsey; Slabu, Letitia; de Moura, Georgina Randsley; Hopthrow, Tim – Psychology Teaching Review, 2014
Employers often claim that graduates are not ready for the world of work as they lack employability skills (Archer & Davison, 2008). One policy response to this claim has been to encourage students to undertake a work placement to enhance success in the competitive job market (The Dearing Report, 1997). The present research investigated…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Employment Potential, Job Placement, Undergraduate Students
Margherio, Cara; Horner-Devine, M. Claire; Mizumori, Sheri J. Y.; Yen, Joyce W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience is a National Institutes of Health-funded, national program that addresses challenges to the persistence of diverse early-career neuroscientists. In doing so, BRAINS aims to advance diversity in neuroscience by increasing career advancement and retention of post-PhD,…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Scientists, Entry Workers, Persistence
Alper, Joe – National Academies Press, 2016
The future competitiveness of the United States in an increasingly interconnected global economy depends on the nation fostering a workforce with strong capabilities and skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). STEM knowledge and skills enable both individual opportunity and national competitiveness, and the nation needs…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Labor Force Development, Workshops, Competition
Illinois Community College Board, 2016
The Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) continues to build and expand opportunities for adult education students to transition into college and the workforce. Through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the ICCB will better align services with the core partners to assist students in accessing career pathway instructional and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Family Literacy, Community Colleges, Federal Legislation
De Vos, Ans; De Hauw, Sara; Van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
The present study aims to unravel the relationship between competency development, employability and career success. To do so, we tested a model wherein associations between employee participation in competency development initiatives, perceived support for competency development, self-perceived employability, and two indicators of subjective…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Satisfaction, Predictor Variables, Competence
McIlveen, Peter; Brooks, Sally; Lichtenberg, Anna; Smith, Martin; Torjul, Peter; Tyler, Joanne – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2011
This paper is a report on the perceived correspondence between career development learning and work-integrated learning programs that were delivered by career services in Australian higher education institutions. The study entailed a questionnaire survey of representatives of university career services. The questionnaire dealt with the extent to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Career Development, Foreign Countries
Carnevale, Anthony; Smith, Nicole – Community College Journal, 2013
As health care providers, patients, and employers adjust to the changes related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promises to extend medical coverage to thirty million previously uninsured Americans, community colleges are gearing up to keep pace with rising economic and societal demands for medical and allied health…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Allied Health Personnel, Labor Force Development, Federal Legislation
Ananiadou, Katerina, Ed. – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2013
The essays presented in this publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO's new Education on the Move series. They cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, range of current practices, ideas and debates in the field of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). They…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Social Justice, Secondary Education