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Haddad, Becky; Marx, Adam A. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2018
This study sought to assess student perceptions of soft skills and career decision self-efficacy attained through participation in different types of Supervised Agriculture Experience programs within School Based Agricultural Education. There was no significant difference found in career decision self-efficacy or perceived soft skill attainment…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Career Choice, Decision Making, Problem Solving
Thomas, Nancy L., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
What needs to be done to strengthen U.S. democracy, to make it work the way it should? Each generation of Americans asks some version of this question, but this book offers an answer that recognizes the heightened urgency and hopefulness in the way individuals are asking the question today. At the heart of the debate is a conviction that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Democracy, Governance
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Strait, Jean R. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
What causes students to leave school? According to Azzam (2007), over 47% of students in the United States who drop out of school reported they did so because school was boring and irrelevant to their life situation. What can schools and teachers do to encourage students to stay in school? One possible solution may be to look at experiential…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Public Speaking, Skill Development
Benson, Arland; Henriksen, Dorothy, Ed. – 1977
Materials contained in this booklet (one in a series of seven) highlight the processes involved in consultation and provide description and examples of shared decision making in the implementation of career education. A section is devoted to the rationale and practice of using career education practioners as consultants. (Booklet 7--Planning and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Education, Consultants, Consultation Programs
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Thomas, Ruth G. – Journal of Home Economics, 1982
The Managing Independent Living Program develops in incarcerated females about to be released the skills in micro policy formation, evaluation, and implementation that will lead to their successful transition to the community. Micro policy analysts provide training and counseling in decision making and problem solving. (SK)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Correctional Education, Critical Thinking
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2008
As part of the usual end of year meeting that has been a feature of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) project, a conference intending to provide a forum for young voices in an outside of the Center was organized. The basic model for the gathering was borrowed from track and field. This was to be an intellectual…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy