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Almasi, Pooya; Hadavand, Aboozar; Thomas, Sarah; Gharehgozli, Orkideh – Education Economics, 2020
We introduce a new approach to measuring the match between education and occupation by using the number of college courses related to one's occupation. Previous studies have only considered the match between college 'major' and occupation. That approach ignores the content of education and the courses taken in college. We find that taking courses…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Education Work Relationship, College Curriculum, Outcomes of Education
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet, Ángel; Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Adelina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Acculturation, Language Usage, Spanish
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Bhopti, Anoo; Lentin, Primrose; Brown, Ted – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
Disability-related services such as Early Childhood Intervention Services (ECIS) become a part of life for families when there is a child with disability. Many parents give up their everyday occupations such as self-care and paid work to be able to provide long-term caregiving. This Australian study explored parent perspectives of their family…
Descriptors: Correlation, Quality of Life, Intervention, Preschool Children
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Ensuring that EU countries develop robust skills anticipation to inform responsive VET systems, is a key aim of the skills agenda for Europe. To be impactful, skills intelligence requires good skills governance, feeding into VET and employment policies with wide outreach to diverse potential users. In 2015, Cedefop initiated a country support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Morin, Kristi L.; Sam, Ann; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Waters, Victoria; Odom, Samuel L. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (AFIRM) are a set of self-paced, online learning modules designed to disseminate information about the 27 evidence-based practices identified through a large-scale review of focused intervention practices for individuals with autism. In this study, we used descriptive statistics and an analysis of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Online Courses
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
The European qualifications framework (EQF), with its eight levels, serves as a translation grid between qualifications acquired in different European countries. Part of Cedefop's work to make qualifications easier to understand and compare, this study takes a closer look at those acquired through initial VET and assigned to EQF levels 3 and 4 via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, National Standards
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Macharia, Pascal; Moore, Samantha; Mathenge, John; Ndunda, Erastus; Lazarus, Lisa; McKinnon, Lyle R.; Lorway, Robert – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: This report identifies the profound effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant government lockdown have had on sexual health services delivery to a community of marginalised male sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya. Methods: Based on the experiences shared during ongoing virtual conversations with peer health workers, a case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kim, Jeongeun; Jung, Jiwon; Mlambo, Yeukai Angela – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
To increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce, U.S. education policy has emphasized the pathways from education to STEM careers. While some scholars argue that employers prioritize the degree, and not institutional affiliation, in hiring graduates, the argument needs to be warranted with more recent data…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Policy, Institutional Characteristics, Personnel Selection
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Papadogiannis, Ilias; Wallace, Manolis; Poulopoulos, Vassilis; Karountzou, Georgia; Ekonomopoulos, Dimitris – Education Sciences, 2021
Intro: In this survey the academic performance of primary and secondary school students in Greece, for three consecutive school years, was examined. The data concerned all Greek students of the last two grades of elementary school and the three grades of junior high school. Method: Unsupervised learning methods such as an X-means algorithm in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
This product provides a summary of the outcomes and satisfaction of students who completed nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) delivered by registered training organisations (RTOs) in Australia during 2019 using data collected between June and September 2020. The figures are derived from the National Student Outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Graduates
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Adamuti-Trache, Maria; Zhang, Yi Leaf – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study contributes to empirical efforts to understand factors affecting the career-development process of American youth by focusing on change in occupational expectations between age 16 and 26. The study is based on the secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Education Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Expectation, Occupations
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Jane, Philip – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2018
At the end of the nineteenth century, music was an accomplishment that many women were encouraged to pursue. For some, this was merely an additional "ornament" to enhance marriage prospects, but a growing number took the opportunity to turn musical ability into a career option. A small group of musically educated women in New Zealand at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music Teachers, Females
Bora, Ashim; Ahmed, Sahin – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of the present study is to examine the impact of parental socioeconomic status on pupils' achievement in secondary school Mathematics. The population of the study consists of class nine students studying in different secondary and higher secondary schools of Karbi Anglong district of Assam state in India. 900 students of 30 different…
Descriptors: Parents, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Broten, Nicholas – RAND Corporation, 2017
This second of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region, comprising twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Together,…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
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Marta-Lazo, Carmen; Frau-Meigs, Divina; Osuna-Acedo, Sara – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This research analysed social MOOCs (sMOOCs), which are characterised by the involvement and the interaction of participants in a model based on intercreativity, with the final objective of transferring knowledge by an agile replicating process. The fieldwork focused on the analysis of the sMOOC "Step by Step" of the European…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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