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Helen Boylan; Alison L. DuBois; Brian Petrus – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
In recent years, employers have expressed concerns that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, though proficient in their academic disciplines, lack the critical skills necessary for success in the workplace (Karimi & Pina, 2021). Additionally, many non-STEM majors do not develop the basic STEM competencies that…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teamwork, Undergraduate Students
Frizzell, Matthew; Braun, Matthew; Ferguson, Maria; Rentner, Diane Stark; Kober, Nancy – Center on Education Policy, 2017
This report draws on information from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to better understand the value of deeper learning competencies in the labor market. O*NET uses surveys of employees and occupational experts to determine the important characteristics and requirements of more than 900 occupations. The…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Occupational Information, Occupational Surveys
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Durette, Barthélémy; Fournier, Marina; Lafon, Matthieu – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In our knowledge society and economy, doctoral education is increasingly considered as a means to produce knowledge workers to feed the needs of the global employment market. This raises concerns about the competencies developed through doctoral training. Surprisingly, only a few studies have addressed this question and most of them are restricted…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Doctoral Degrees, National Surveys, Cluster Grouping