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Direct linkAshebir Tekle; Solomon Areaya; Getachew Habtamu – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study explores the key determinants and their impact on the effectiveness of successful occupational competency assessments in Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a mixed-methods approach with a concurrent embedded design, collecting data from various stakeholders, including candidates, trainers, assessors,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Career and Technical Education
Xu, Fengqin; Ma, Liang; Wang, Yinhe; Yu, Jiang; Li, Dandan; Zhou, Guohui; Xu, Yuzi; Zhang, Hailin; Cao, Yang – SAGE Open, 2021
New graduate registered nurses (NGRNs) face a great challenge during the transition from school to clinical practice. We conducted a quasi-randomized controlled study to evaluate the effects of a new training mode for newly recruited NGRNs in a Chinese teaching hospital. A total of 150 NGRNs were recruited from a teaching hospital and assigned…
Descriptors: Job Training, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Innovation
Gearing, Robin E; Leung, Patrick; Cheung, Monit; Washburn, Micki; Torres, Luis R. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2020
This research examines students' perceptions of how learning abroad programs furthered the development of the nine core EPAS social work competencies. Ninety MSW graduates who participated in a learning abroad course during their graduate program completed an anonymous online survey assessing the association between study abroad participation,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Social Work
Symonds, Jennifer E.; O'Sullivan, Carmel – Review of Education, 2017
Across Europe, young adult unemployment remains an important issue. Those who have grown up in contexts of social and educational disadvantage can find it particularly difficult to find work. In response, governments, charitable foundations and in the rare case, researchers, have developed programmes of training and work-based learning to help…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Career Readiness, Job Skills
Download full textSánchez-Carmona, Adrián; Robles, Sergi; Pons, Jordi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2017
The students' lack of motivation is a usual problem. The students value more the obtention of the degree than the developing of competences and skills. In order to fight this, we developed a gamification's experience based on merits and leaderboards. The merits are linked to the attainment of skills and competences that students usually do not…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Student Experience, Engineering Education, Performance Based Assessment
Harder, Amy; Hodges, Alan; Zelaya, Priscilla – Journal of Extension, 2017
Return on investment (ROI) is a commonly used metric for organizations concerned with demonstrating the value of their investments; it can be used to determine whether funds spent providing professional development programs for Extension professionals are good investments. This article presents a method for calculating ROI for an onboarding…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Professional Development, Value Judgment, Value Added Models
Erickson, Deborah E. – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2016
Every two years, institutions sponsoring credentialing programs in California are required to submit a detailed biennial report, which includes data on at least four key assessments showing 1) candidate competence and/or 2) program efficacy. This article reports the types of assessments used from 25 institutions that completed biennial reports for…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Annual Reports, Testing Programs, Credentials
Cisneros, Jesus; Cadenas, German – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
DREAMzone is an educational intervention designed to increase higher education professionals' competency and self-efficacy for working with undocumented students. Grounded in social learning theory, we developed the DREAMer-ally instrument to investigate the effects of DREAMzone on DREAMer-ally competency and self-efficacy. Findings support the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Staff Development, Self Efficacy, Competency Based Education
Breneman, Charity B.; Heidari, Khosrow; Butler, Sarah; Porter, Ryan R.; Wang, Xuewen – Journal of School Nursing, 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine the effectiveness of the Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in Schools (H.A.N.D.S.?) continuing education program in improving the level of experience and competence in performing services associated with diabetes care. This program is a live course for school nurses providing…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Diabetes, Continuing Education
Kroflic, Robi; Smrtnik Vitulic, Helena – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
The aim of the present study was to ascertain the effects of the five-month implementation of the comprehensive inductive educational approach on the social behaviour of kindergarten children. The sample consisted of 52 children in the experimental group and 48 children in the control group, aged from 2.6 to 6.0 years. The kindergarten teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Social Behavior, Program Effectiveness
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2013
Over the past decade internships have become an essential talent management strategy for organizations big and small. The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) has tracked the role of internships, finding that internships have eclipsed on-campus interviewing in bringing organizations to college campuses…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Educational Objectives, Program Length, Work Experience
Varela, Daniella G.; Maxwell, Gerri M. – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2015
This study explores the effectiveness of educator preparation programs from the perspective of three female Hispanic veteran teachers serving high-needs populations of students. The study strives to contribute to research on minimum proposed standards for teacher preparation programs in Texas. Through a process of coding data from the informant…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Females, Experienced Teachers
Gamse, Beth C.; Espinosa, Lorelle L.; Roy, Radha – Abt Associates, 2013
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program represents a substantial investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the quality of graduate education, and ultimately, to increase the number of graduates better prepared to address the nation's 21st century scientific and technological needs. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
Gamse, Beth C.; Espinosa, Lorelle L.; Roy, Radha – Abt Associates, 2013
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program represents a substantial investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the quality of graduate education, and ultimately, to increase the number of graduates better prepared to address our nation's 21st century scientific and technological needs. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
Swanke, Jayme; Zeman, Laura Dreuth – College Quarterly, 2015
This study involves an evaluation of online learners' experiences with two Internet-based clinical social work courses. The evaluation sought to discover whether there were differences in learning between traditional (under 25 years old) and nontraditional age learners (25 years and over) who completed the asynchronous online course. The study…
Descriptors: Social Work, Nontraditional Students, Learning Experience, Clinical Experience
