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Ahmed, Ambreen; Ahmed, Nawaz – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2017
A survey was conducted to study the preferred learning strategies; that is, surface learning or deep learning of undergraduate and graduate male and female students and the impact of the preferred strategy on their academic performance. Both learning strategies help university students to get good scores in their examinations to meet the demands…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Rote Learning, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students
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Campbell-Barr, Verity – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
Drives to increase the number of early childhood education and care places in England have relied on a mixed economy of providers. Yet this is not a free market as policy makers have sought to create a discursive truth of an entrepreneurial provider in order to secure their initial pump priming investment. However, there remain sustainability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Entrepreneurship
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Wingrave, Mary; McMahon, Margery – Professional Development in Education, 2016
The aim of the Early Years Framework, launched in Scotland in 2008, was to improve outcomes for young children, reflecting global trends in the repositioning of early childhood education and care and in the professionalisation of those working in these settings. One part of this framework is a mandatory requirement for leaders of early years…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Professional Identity, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers
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Fernández-Mellizo, María; Martínez-García, José Saturnino – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
School failure is substantive in Spain. The percentage of students that do not achieve the compulsory education diploma is around 20%. School failure is higher for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Students who "fail" cannot continue to post-compulsory education and, sooner or later, they have to leave formal education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Failure, Educational History, Equal Education
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Hordern, Jim – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This article argues for an early childhood professionalism based upon notions of professional community and professional knowledge. Professionalism is conceived here as shaped by the relation between the social and the epistemic, with certain types of professional knowledge given precedence in accordance with the involvement of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Professionalism, Educational Practices
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, 2020
With the assistance of the National Science Foundation, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) convened a STEM Task Force, a diverse panel of scientists and university administrators, to help develop a set of recommendations on both policy changes and high-impact practices to improve the participation and success rates of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Hispanic American Students, Informal Education, Preschool Education
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Chan, Kara; Hui, Anna; Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Ng, Yu Leung – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2013
As the workforce ages it becomes important to examine if there is misperception of creativity and age in work contexts. A laboratory experiment examined perceptions of the creativity of a team with both young and old workers and of a team composed entirely of young workers. Scripted videos portrayed such teams engaged in designing an outdoor…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Labor Force, Attitudes, Advertising
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2013
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) created this document in response to an increased amount of requests for effective career development strategies that target the entry and mid-level workforce. These requests came from a number of different industry sectors throughout the country. This paper summarizes all of those requests,…
Descriptors: Employees, Career Development, Labor Force, Occupational Mobility
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Cummins, Phyllis A.; Kunkel, Suzanne R. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
Historically, older and lower-skilled adults in the U.S. have participated in Adult Education and Training (AET) at lower rates than other groups, possibly because of perceived lack of return on investment due to the time required to recover training costs. Global, knowledge based economies have increased the importance of lifelong learning for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Older Adults, Adult Students, International Assessment
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Christiansen, M. Sidury; Trejo Guzmán, Nelly Paulina; Mora-Pablo, Irasema – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Return migration from the United States to Mexico has been increasing in the last decade. Research reports that many returnees, who are English dominant, drop out of school to look for work in call centers and transnational companies (Anderson, 2015). Others pursue higher education in English-based programs such as those for becoming English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Young, Cheri A.; Haffejee, Badiah; Corsun, David L. – Journal of Management Education, 2018
Given increasing globalization and the foreign-born workforce characterizing many organizations around the world, managers are increasingly called on to effectively manage a culturally diverse workforce. One way to increase the cultural intelligence and empathy of managers was proposed by Ragins, who indicated that mentors in diversified mentoring…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Empathy, Mentors, Intervention
Data Quality Campaign, 2018
Alignment between K-12 education and the workforce is critical because jobs are changing. Students must be prepared not only for the jobs of today but also for the jobs of the future. Securely linking data between state K-12 and workforce data systems can create a bridge between these agencies as they develop shared career readiness goals for…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Force, Education Work Relationship
Data Quality Campaign, 2018
Data governance provides state agencies a structure in which to define the roles and responsibilities needed to ensure clear processes for collecting and reporting education data and to ensure accountability for data quality and security. To make informed policy decisions across agencies, such as the state education agency and early childhood,…
Descriptors: Data Use, Information Management, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
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Liu, Siwei; Hynes, Kathryn – Family Relations, 2012
Despite considerable interest in the causes and consequences of work-family conflict, and the frequent suggestion in fertility research that difficulty in balancing work and family is one of the factors leading to low fertility rates in several developed countries, little research uses longitudinal data to examine whether women who report…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Employed Women, Child Health, Developed Nations
Smith, Joe Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Numerous researchers have conducted qualitative and quantitative studies examining employee perceptions related to changes in their work environment based upon management/top-down (deductive) communication of vision, mission, and envisioned organization goals (Hofstede, Neuijen, Daval, Ohayv, & Sanders 1990), but research on the influence of…
Descriptors: Employees, Employee Attitudes, Facilities, Work Environment
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