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Community College Graduates' Perceptions of the Effect of Cocurricular Involvement on Their Academic Success and Career Skill Development
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Ramón De Los Santos – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This phenomenological, qualitative study explored community college graduates' perceptions of their cocurricular involvement and its effect on their academic success and career development through the lens of The City University of New York's Accelerated Studies in Associate Programs (ASAP). Besides the low graduation rates among community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Graduates, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
First Year Business Practicum: Impacts of Early Experiential Learning
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Maguire, Diana S. – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2018
This research builds on previous higher education studies and improves the understanding of students' confidence in their chosen business education path with the introduction of a first-year experiential business practicum course. Students' understanding of business disciplines within the early years of academic decision-making has been a…
Descriptors: Practicums, Experiential Learning, Liberal Arts, Business Administration Education
Development and Evaluation of Food Safety Modules for K-12 Science Education
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Chapin, Travis K.; Pfuntner, Rachel C.; Stasiewicz, Matthew J.; Wiedmann, Martin; Orta-Ramirez, Alicia – Journal of Food Science Education, 2015
Career and educational opportunities in food science and food safety are underrecognized by K-12 students and educators. Additionally, misperceptions regarding nature of science understanding persist in K-12 students despite being emphasized as an important component of science education for over 100 y. In an effort to increase awareness…
Descriptors: Food, Safety, Science Education, Career Development
The Impact of International Internships on Undergraduate College Students' Career Development
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Benedict-Augustine, Amy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent years, a growing number of undergraduate college and university students in the United States have sought international internships. A great deal has been written about internships as a form of experiential learning and a great deal has been written about international study abroad as a source for global learning, but there is limited…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness
What Do We Really Believe about Career Development?
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Munson, Harold L.; And Others – Journal of Career Education, 1981
Discusses a 1979-80 survey of attitudes toward career development, undertaken in four school systems in upstate New York. Results of the faculty questionnaire, "Attitudes toward Career Development and Career Education," and of the student questionnaire, "Learning About Work and Jobs," are examined. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Questionnaires
Harbor in the Storm: Institutional Research in the Age of Accountability. NEAIR 36th Annual Conference Proceedings (Baltimore, Maryland, November 7-10, 2009)
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D'Alessandro, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2009
The NEAIR 2009 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Baltimore, Maryland conference. Papers in this document include: (1) A Principle Components Analysis of The Determinants of Student Satisfaction at a Historically Black Institution (Tao Gong and Jacqueline V. Parham); (2) Assessing and Enhancing Graduates'…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Satisfaction, Black Colleges
Non-Traditional Students in Post-Secondary Career Programs: Success Characteristics.
Fadale, LaVerna M.; Winter, Gene M. – Career Education Quarterly, 1978
Describes research project efforts in developmental studies programs for nontraditional students in New York two-year colleges and also identifies characteristics of occupational educational students enrolled in these programs who can be classified as successful. Student inventories indicated that personal value factors were important in academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Research