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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
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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
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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
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Sánchez-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
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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
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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
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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