Publication Date
In 2025 | 11 |
Since 2024 | 158 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 574 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1277 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3249 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 122 |
Practitioners | 55 |
Researchers | 50 |
Teachers | 42 |
Administrators | 37 |
Students | 9 |
Community | 8 |
Parents | 6 |
Counselors | 2 |
Support Staff | 2 |
Location
United States | 242 |
Australia | 222 |
Canada | 160 |
United Kingdom | 158 |
China | 150 |
Germany | 81 |
United Kingdom (England) | 74 |
California | 71 |
India | 71 |
Russia | 68 |
Texas | 65 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 1 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
Does not meet standards | 4 |
Madera, Merilee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Using a phenomenological methodology, this qualitative study renewed the examination of gender inequality in higher education administration by allowing women who have experienced the glass ceiling phenomenon at Research Doctoral institutions to provide further meaning by sharing their stories. The glass ceiling phenomenon reveals itself most…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Gender Bias, Higher Education
Czyz, Anna – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
This article presents the results of a research study on the system of early child development support with developmental disabilities and their families in Poland. The analysis covered areas such as proximity and accessibility of services, infrastructural conditions, preparation of personnel, and occurrence of systemic barriers. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Young Children
Milanowski, Anthony; Heneman, Herbert, III; Carl, Bradley – Teacher Incentive Fund, US Department of Education, 2017
Many organizations use dashboards to monitor and analyze important performance measures. Data dashboards present the most important information (sometimes called key performance indicators, or KPIs) about processes and outcomes in a concise, easy-to-digest format. Dashboards get their name from the clusters of instruments and gauges drivers use to…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Management Systems, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Selection
Dotzel, Kathryn Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research investigates three topics related to human capital and innovation in the United States. The primary objective of the first chapter is to examine the influence of natural amenities on student migration decisions using institution-level data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data…
Descriptors: Essays, Human Capital, Innovation, School Statistics
Fengliang, Li; Manli, Li; Morgan, W. John – Athens Journal of Education, 2018
It is well-known that engineering is a key profession for both economic and social development. This is as true for China as it is for other countries which are in the process of development. However, what are the economic incentives for young people to enter the profession today? Currently, there are many studies of the rate of return to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Private Sector, Foreign Countries, Engineering Education
Mazouch, Petr; Ptácková, Veronika; Fischer, Jakub; Hulík, Vladimír – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2018
With the increase in the number of university students, the number of those who do not finish successfully the tertiary education is also increasing. The article uses a specific data source and analyses only a part of the group of unsuccessful students who re-enroll. This is a specific group of students - they did not finish the tertiary study in…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Dropouts, Reentry Students
Brajkovic, Lucia – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the human capital theory tenets hold in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) that transitioned from socialist regimes to a market-based economy. The modeling approach relied on 18 years (1994-2012) of country level data collected from the World Bank, in order to explore whether the increase…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Change, Social Systems, Higher Education
Erwin, Christopher Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Human capital production is central to economic wellbeing from a national perspective: it improves productivity, spurs technological innovation, and promotes sustainable economic growth over time. Equally important, investments in human capital are central to economic wellbeing at the individual level. College graduates tend to earn more money,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Merit Scholarships
Higdon, Rachel Delta – Power and Education, 2016
The student voice is currently absent from the employability agenda for higher education in the UK. A government-led neo-liberal model of employability, claiming what employers want when employing graduates, has been uncritically adopted by many universities in the UK to inform higher education strategy and policy. Many undergraduates and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Dahlberg, Gunilla – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article analyses the discourse and practices of quality assurance and quality control through the lens of neo-liberal governing as expressed in economic rationalities such as new public management, total quality management, public choice and human capital. As an alternative to this form of governing, an ethico-aesthetic paradigm is enacted,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism
Paul, Kristina Ayers; Seward, Kristen K. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2016
The place-based investment model (PBIM) of talent development is a programming model for developing talents of high-potential youth in ways that could serve as an investment in the community. In this article, we discuss the PBIM within rural contexts. The model is grounded in three theories--Moon's personal talent development theory, Sternberg's…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Place Based Education, Investment, Models
Thompson, Jennifer Jo; Conaway, Evan; Dolan, Erin L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
Recent calls for reform in undergraduate biology education have emphasized integrating research experiences into the learning experiences of all undergraduates. Contemporary science research increasingly demands collaboration across disciplines and institutions to investigate complex research questions, providing new contexts and models for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Educational Change
Sandirasegarane, Sharmila; Sutermaster, Staci; Gill, Alyssa; Volz, Jennifer; Mehta, Khanjan – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is offered throughout the world to students of various educational backgrounds and career aspirations in an effort to create a skilled workforce. The structure of VET varies greatly across different fields and countries with high-growth, low-growth, and transitional economies. However, a common critique of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Entrepreneurship, Context Effect
Participation in Job-Related Lifelong Learning among Well-Educated Employees in the Nordic Countries
Tikkanen, Tarja; Nissinen, Kari – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore participation in job-related lifelong learning (LLL) among well-educated mature workers and compare it across four Nordic countries. Although this group generally is very active in LLL, the centrality of knowledge work in society, rapid pace of skills-renewal and rising learning demands for all…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Well Being, Workplace Learning, Human Capital
Wilson, Mark; Gochyyev, Perman; Scalise, Kathleen – Online Learning, 2016
This paper summarizes initial field-test results from data analytics used in the work of the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) project, on the "ICT Literacy--Learning in digital networks" learning progression. This project, sponsored by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, aims to help educators around the world enable…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Technological Literacy, Social Networks