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Ryan, Mary; Gwinner, Karleen; Mallan, Kerry; Livock, Cheryl – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
Economic success and commitment to the social benefits of inclusive training opportunities are important goals for public Vocational Education and Training (VET). Currently in Australia, VET policy is a shared responsibility between the Commonwealth and the States and Territories. Priorities for investment are juggled between improving efficiency…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Inclusion, Educational Opportunities, Performance Factors
Ray, Thomas P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed methods study examined the relative position of basic skills programs with transfer and career technical programs in a large suburban community college in California during the three-year period of budget reductions from 2009-2010 through 2011-2012. The budget line dedicated to part-time or non-contract instruction was analyzed along…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Budgets, Retrenchment, Career Education
Furtado, Ovande, Jr.; Gallagher, Jere D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2012
Mastery of fundamental movement skills (FMS) is an important factor in preventing weight gain and increasing physical activity. To master FMS, performance evaluation is necessary. In this study, we investigated the reliability of a new observational assessment tool. In Phase I, 110 video clips of children performing five locomotor, and six…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychomotor Skills, Basic Skills, Reliability
Zwagerman, Sean – Education Canada, 2012
The value of grammar instruction in improving students' writing has been debated for at least 150 years, and is showing no signs of tiring. But would teaching grammar actually improve writing? In fact, study after study has shown that the study of grammar does not translate to improved student writing. Indeed, the basic skills of writing are not…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Improvement, Basic Skills, Paragraph Composition
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2017
The pathways for academic career and employment program (PACE) is established to provide funding to community colleges for the development of projects that will lead to gainful, quality, in-state employment for members of target populations by providing them with both effective academic and employment training to ensure gain. This is the fourth…
Descriptors: Career Education, Job Training, Outreach Programs, State Programs
World Bank, 2017
The demographic shift occurring in Serbia has had a profound effect on the education system. The student population has declined by 21 percent in primary schools and 13 percent in secondary schools since 2000, but the school network has changed little since then. This has resulted in many schools with few students. Furthermore, the total number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Haydn, Terry – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
The paper reports on a particular strand of the outcomes of the English contribution to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development comparative study, "ICT in Initial Teacher Training," which aimed to develop insights into how courses of initial teacher training prepare student teachers to use information and communications…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Expertise, Information Technology
Strandbu, Åse; Steen-Johnsen, Kari – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This paper explores the role of reflexivity in habituation by contrasting the learning of aerobics and basketball with the acquisition of gendered bodily skills. The discussion is inspired by the paper "So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation," by Noble and Watkins (2003), which represents a…
Descriptors: Habituation, Exercise, Team Sports, Learning
Taylor, Emily P.; Skinner, Christopher H.; McCallum, Elizabeth; Poncy, Brian C.; Orsega, Mike – Educational Research Quarterly, 2013
Because teacher-to-student ratios often make it difficult for teachers to work individually with students on skill-building activities, educators and researchers have developed and evaluated procedures in which audio-recordings are used to improve basic academic skills. In the current paper, we describe and analyze reading, math, and spelling…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Spelling Instruction
Clark, Hope – ACT, Inc., 2013
In this report, ACT presents a definition of "work readiness" along with empirically driven ACT Work Readiness Standards and Benchmarks. The introduction of standards and benchmarks for workplace success provides a more complete picture of the factors that are important in establishing readiness for success throughout a lifetime. While…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Standards, Benchmarking, Job Skills
Swain, Jon – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
This paper draws on data that formed part of a major three-year longitudinal study (2008-2011), which set out to investigate basic skills (BS) provision and needs in the British army and its relationship to operational effectiveness. Using mixed methods, the findings draw on qualitative data from 60 semi-structured interviews with 26 young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Basic Skills, Operations Research, Longitudinal Studies
Abadzi, Helen – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
The international Education for All initiative to bring about universal primary education has resulted in large enrollment increases in lower income countries but with limited outcomes. Due to scarcity in material and human resources, all but the better off often fail to learn basic skills. To improve performance within the very limited capacities…
Descriptors: Low Income, Neurosciences, Intervention, Basic Skills
Ludlam, John – Adults Learning, 2012
The Secrets and Words films had everything one would expect from a BBC drama--great writing, acting and directing allied with high production values. But the dramas were also powerful learning tools, co-commissioned by BBC Learning and aimed at inspiring people who have difficulty with reading and writing to seek help. The BBC's learning vision is…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Audiences, Films
Wilkins, M. Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 2001, No Child Left Behind introduced the highly qualified status for k-12 teachers, which mandated the successful scores on a series of high-stakes test; within this series is the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) or PRAXIS I. The PPST measures basic k-12 skills for reading, writing, and mathematics. The mathematics sub-test is a national…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Tests, Study Guides
Sáez, Leilani; Irvin, P. Shawn; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2012
In 2006, the easyCBM reading assessment system was developed to support the progress monitoring of phoneme segmenting, letter names and sounds recognition, word reading, passage reading fluency, and comprehension skill development in elementary schools. More recently, the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts have been introduced as a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Alignment (Education), Academic Standards, State Standards