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Welch, Corey M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study addressed the need of human performance technology (HPT) practitioners to make the most cost-effective performance intervention decisions, introducing a new instrument, the Intervention Value Survey, as a possible tool to provide a clearer profile of an audience's perceptions of what provides them value. Using a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Cost Effectiveness, Intervention, Decision Making
Ananiadou, Katerina, Ed. – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2013
The essays presented in this publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO's new Education on the Move series. They cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, range of current practices, ideas and debates in the field of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). They…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Social Justice, Secondary Education
Aparicio, Ricardo Antonio – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The rapid pace of change for knowledge workers competing globally necessitates ongoing continuous learning. Increasingly, knowledge workers will need to be ready--willing and able--to engage in self-directed learning. This makes it important to understand what factors in the work environment might be related to the self-directed learning…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Independent Study, Learning Readiness, Supervisors
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Abukari, Abdulai – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This paper presents findings of a research project that aimed to critically examine the pedagogical beliefs of work-based learning teachers, and their potential implication on practice and expectations of learners and employers. Based on an online tool, qualitative and quantitative (descriptive) data were generated from a purposive sample of some…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Research Projects, Qualitative Research
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Smeby, Jens-Christian; Heggen, Kåre – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
It can be difficult for students to relate theoretical knowledge and practical skills when making the transition from the classroom to professional practice. The concept of coherence has been suggested as an appropriate way to address how the relationships involved (i.e. between theoretical knowledge and practical skills and between classroom…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Nurses
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Davies, Helen Maria; Sandiford, Peter John – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2014
Student internships are widely seen as a valuable part of education provision and there is a growing body of research into internship programmes from student, employer and educator perspectives. This paper explores the experiences of a group of information technology interns employed in a small organisation involved in health care business…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Information Technology, Health Services
Tracey, Edward A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Despite there being a significant amount of research investigating workplace learning, research exploring firefighter workplace learning is almost nonexistent. The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to explore how firefighters conceptualize, report, and practice workplace learning. The researcher also investigated how firefighters…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Workplace Learning, Fire Protection, Qualitative Research
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Bandaranaike, Suniti; Willison, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Teaching for work-integrated learning (WIL) competency is largely directed at delivering knowledge based cognitive skills with little emphasis on affective skills. This study looks at empirical evidence of WIL students through their understanding of the cognitive and affective domains. The research is based on a validated employability framework,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Career Readiness, Cognitive Ability
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
In the knowledge economy, many companies are well aware of the vital need to maintain the professional expertise of their workers at a high level. Though there have been a lot of research studies in the areas of professional expertise and workplace learning, few examined the learning pathways novice workers went through to become experts in their…
Descriptors: Expertise, Knowledge Economy, Professional Development, Workplace Learning
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Balduzzi, Lucia; Lazzari, Arianna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
In recent years, the issue of early childhood staff professionalisation has been taking an increasingly prominent position in policy-making and academic debates at the international level. Despite this growing interest, studies investigating the content and delivery of professional preparation programmes for early childhood practitioners are still…
Descriptors: Mentors, Workplace Learning, Context Effect, Educational Policy
Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is one of the world's leading educational research centres. ACER's mission is to create and promote research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning across the life span. This annual report describes ACER's milestones and accomplishments for the 2013-2014…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Annual Reports, Research Projects
Willis, Dedria Lynette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative research study is two-fold: (1) to narrate the realities and perspectives of adult students' learning experiences in a General Education Development (GED) preparation program in a Mid-western urban city; and (2) to document the thinking of the former director of adult education at the state level to understand the…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Adult Education, Journal Writing, Interviews
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Shanks, Rachel; Robson, Dean; Gray, Donald – International Journal of Training and Development, 2012
This research is concerned with the professional learning and development of new teachers in the Scottish Teacher Induction Scheme, in particular, informal and formal learning, the workplace learning environment and the personal and professional characteristics of the induction year teacher. Building on the work of Unwin and Fuller and Hodkinson…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Orientation, Semi Structured Interviews
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Chan, Selena – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This article reports on a study of the perspectives of new tutors teaching traditional vocational trades who recently commenced teaching in the Institutes of Technologies and Polytechnics (ITPs) sector in New Zealand. The perspectives are collated from questionnaires and interviews of 13 tutors, from five ITPs, who have been teaching full-time for…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Tutors
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Filipowski, Tomasz; Kazienko, Przemyslaw; Brodka, Piotr; Kajdanowicz, Tomasz – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
Knowledge exchange between employees is an essential feature of recent commercial organisations on the competitive market. Based on the data gathered by various information technology (IT) systems, social links can be extracted and exploited in knowledge exchange systems of a new kind. Users of such a system ask their queries and the system…
Descriptors: Expertise, Informal Education, Information Technology, Workplace Learning
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