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Marks, Gary N.; Pokropek, Artur – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This study examines the influence of family income on student achievement in mathematics utilising data from the parents' questionnaire for nine countries participating in the OECD's 2012 PISA study. It finds non-trivial effects for family income that were consistently larger than, or comparable to, the effects of more commonly used measures of…
Descriptors: Family Income, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
Columbus, Rooney – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
Nondegree credentialing and training has existed for many years. Reasons for pursuing nondegree education vary, from wanting to pick up in-demand skills, meet a job requirement, or get a pay raise to exploring a new occupational area or engaging in lifelong learning. Having a nondegree credential is not unusual, either; one 2014 analysis by the US…
Descriptors: Credentials, Work Experience Programs, Working Class, Adult Education
Kuehn, Daniel; Hecker, Ian; Simon, Alphonse – Urban Institute, 2019
Workers with training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are in high demand in the United States and are essential to innovation and economic growth. Apprenticeship is a proven strategy for training workers, but it is underutilized in STEM occupations. This report explores employers' experiences with STEM apprenticeship.…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, STEM Education, Occupations, Job Skills
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
We study whether childhood health capital affects school attendance, long-run occupational outcomes, and intergenerational mobility. We address this question in the context of London, England during the late nineteenth century using the inpatient admission records of three large hospitals linked to population census records, from which we identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Health, Attendance Patterns, Employment Level
Holzer, Harry J.; Xu, Zeyu – Community College Review, 2021
Objective: We estimated the correlations between the "pathways" chosen by community college students--in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the paths--and the attainment of credentials with labor market value. We focused on the extent to which there were recorded changes in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Correlation, Academic Aspiration
Köse, Mücahit – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The purpose of the study is to determine the knowledge and awareness of gifted children receiving education in the Science and Art Center on nanotechnology. The descriptive survey model was used in the study. The purposeful sampling method was chosen and a total of 160 students receiving education in two Science and Art Centers located in the city…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
Laranjeiro, Dionísia – Education Sciences, 2021
Recent studies indicate tablets as the preferred devices of preschool children, due to portability, autonomy of use and variety of apps. There is also extensive evidence of the contributions of digital technologies in different areas of learning at these ages. The Aprender XXI project aimed to develop game-based learning apps, with content…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Software, Computer Games
Cranston, Jerome; Labman, Shauna; Crook, Stephanie – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
The involvement of refugee parents in their children's education is crucial for academic success and social integration. However, school personnel often seem to struggle to find approaches that will increase recently arrived refugee parents' involvement with the school. While refugee parents are not a homogenous group, many face uniquely similar…
Descriptors: Refugees, Semitic Languages, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries
Formby, Sam K.; Medlin, B. Dawn; Ellington, Virginia – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
Several studies have found that a large percentage of middle-skilled jobs require at least a basic understanding of spreadsheets, and some even advanced level skills. A study was conducted at a four-year university to identify Excel skill sets that were determined as necessary by employers of the university's current students, advisory boards,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Spreadsheets, Job Skills, College Graduates
Cimera, Robert Evert – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2017
This study examined the percentage of 21,257 supported employees served by 74 state-federal vocational rehabilitation agencies in 2013 who would have earned more wages in sheltered workshops than in the community. It found that the overwhelming majority of supported employees earned more in their communities at all wage comparison points; however,…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Supported Employment, Sheltered Workshops, Vocational Rehabilitation
Noticing and Understanding Children's Everyday Mathematics during Play in Early Childhood Classrooms
Papandreou, Maria; Tsiouli, Maria – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Children's everyday mathematics has been well evidenced by a growing body of research and is widely acknowledged as fundamental to meaningful learning in early childhood education. However, literature supports that drawing upon children's mathematical resources for further learning requires that the range of these resources is valued and noticed…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities
Serrano del Pozo, Ignacio; Kreber, Carolin – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2015
Since the nineteenth century, the debate around the process of professionalization of higher education has been characterized by two extreme positions. For some critics the process carries the risks of instrumentalizing knowledge and of leading the university to succumb under the demands of the market or the state; for other theorists it…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Occupations, Universities, Theory Practice Relationship
Wiederspan, Mark – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2018
This brief examines two types of state service-contingent aid programs: conditional grants/loans and loan forgiveness. Conditional grant or loan programs provide a financial award to currently enrolled students and, in exchange for receipt of the award, students must fulfill certain service or work requirements after graduating from college. Loan…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment
Turker-Biber, Belma; Akinci-Cosgun, Aysegul; Aydin-Bolukbas, Feyza – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
The study aims to analyze, in terms of content and process, the math talks between the mother and child during the shared book reading of the illustrated storybooks with math contents. The study group under the research is comprised of nine pairs of mother and child. The process of the study 18 videos which were recorded when two storybooks with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Strategies, Story Reading
Jazadi, Iwan; Widari, I. G. A.; Aprianti, Aris Dwi Intan – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
This article reports on teacher trainees' ability in doing a critical analysis of an extract of English teaching materials from a gender perspective. The critical ability was prompted using a textbook extract that generated two gender issues, namely woman-man relationship and the position of women in occupational discourse. The participants were…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, English (Second Language), Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials