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Harris, Julie C.; Warner, Miya T.; Yee, Kaily; Wilkerson, Stephanie B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. Understanding the alignment between high school CTE programs and the labor market is an important step in this process. To support CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
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Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. This study quantifies the system-level alignment between West Virginia's high school CTE programs and the labor market. West Virginia…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
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Dumas, Denis; McNeish, Daniel; Schreiber-Gregory, Deanna; Durning, Steven J.; Torre, Dario – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Dynamic Measurement Modeling (DMM) is a psychometric paradigm that uses longitudinal data to estimate students' capacity to learn over the course of an educational program (i.e., growth scores). Here, we provide justification for this approach in health professions education and demonstrate its proof of concept with three time-points of USMLE Step…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics, Longitudinal Studies
Kristyn Rodvill – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the bivariate relationships of passing versus failing the National Registered Health Information Technician exam with cumulative grade point average scores and the time from degree conferment to the first attempt at taking the exam, among health information technology graduates…
Descriptors: Correlation, National Competency Tests, Allied Health Personnel, Time to Degree
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Negrini, Lucio; Forsblom, Lara; Gurtner, Jean-Luc; Schumann, Stephan – Vocations and Learning, 2016
The dominant organizational form of vocational education and training in Switzerland is the dual-track system, in which trainees sign an apprenticeship contract with a training company. Notably, 10% to 40% of those contracts are terminated prematurely each year, depending on region and occupational category, which is an important topic of concern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Training, Educational Quality, Contract Training
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Ramsay, Jennifer M.; Hanna, Lauren L. Hulsman; Ringwall, Kris A. – Journal of Extension, 2016
One goal of Extension is to provide practical information that makes a difference to producers. Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software (CHAPS) has provided beef producers with production benchmarks for 30 years, creating a large historical data set. Many such large data sets contain useful information but are underutilized. Our goal was to create…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Information Dissemination, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Education
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Chowdhury, Tamgid A.; Miah, Mohammad K. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
This study devised a 20-item, six-dimensional Employability Skills Index for entry-level jobs in marketing and sales based on the perceptions of students, and a second, 22-item, six-dimensional Employability Skills Index based on the perceptions of employers. Both indexes demonstrated sound reliability, and we presented initial support for the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
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Ilgan, Abdurrahman; Ceviz, Hasan – Educational Administration: Theory & Practice, 2019
There is a big difficulty for teachers in order to reach the desired aims, and teachers need motivation to do this job properly. The aim of the study, which is managed in a quantitative approach, is to define the relationship between how teaching profession is seen for society and perception of teachers' professional motivation from a teacher's…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes
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Tomšik, Robert – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
The aim of the present research was to validate the Scale of motivation for choosing teaching profession (SMVUP-4-S), and to explore its basic psychometric properties on a sample of Slovak teacher trainee students. SMVUP-4-S scale was completed by 1235 respondents with a mean age of 20.1 years. SMVUP-4-S scale consists of 44 items arranged into 11…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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Aitken, Gillian; Jones, Derek; Fawns, Tim; Sutherland, Douglas; Henderson, Sarah – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Within the expansion of postgraduate educational qualifications for health professionals, graduate attributes have become important markers of outcomes and value. However, it is not clear how or when graduate attributes develop, or how they are applied in professional practice after graduation. We interviewed 17 graduates from two online Master's…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Online Courses, College Graduates, Graduate Study
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Magala, Damalie Babirye; Najjingo Mangheni, Margaret; Miiro, Richard Fred – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2019
Purpose: This study examined knowledge sharing mechanisms in coffee IPs and their effect on actor linkages in four districts of Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: Thirty one respondents from the public and private sector were interviewed using a qualitative approach. Data were analyzed using the Atlas ti qualitative software version 7.5.18 to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Cooperation, Agricultural Occupations
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Ozan, Ceyhun – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the prospective teachers' thinking styles, attitudes towards teaching profession and the relationship between thinking styles and attitudes towards teaching profession. Relational survey model was used in the study. The universe of the study consists of the prospective teachers studying in the Faculty of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation)
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Fornaciari, Aleksi – Schools: Studies in Education, 2019
In educational research, the teaching profession is often treated as interaction located only in the classroom, with less attention to other aspects of school reality. Some studies, and the Finnish national curriculum (2014), suggest that the school system needs more practices that aim at negotiation, cooperation, and interaction with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Practices, Elementary School Teachers
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Northern, Amber M.; Petrilli, Michael J. – State Education Standard, 2019
The 2018 reauthorization of the Perkins Act--the principal federal program supporting career and technical education (CTE)--expressly aims to "align workforce skills with labor market needs." But it does little to define or operationalize such alignment. Likewise, the Foundation for Excellence in Education admonishes states to phase out…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Alignment (Education), Labor Market, Demand Occupations
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McKim, Aaron J.; Raven, Matt R.; Palmer, Abbey; McFarland, Ashley; Isleib, James – Journal of Extension, 2019
Mitigating complex problems is increasingly essential to sustaining life on Earth. Empowering current and future generations to address these problems requires rethinking traditional education approaches. This article serves as a primer for land-based learning--defined as a pedagogical approach in which learners collaborate with community members…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Agricultural Occupations, Sustainability, Extension Agents
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