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Plasman, Jay; Thompson, Caleb – International Journal of Training and Development, 2023
Recent updates to federal policy governing career and technical education (CTE) in the United States have emphasised the need to include work-based learning (WBL) experiences as central components of CTE programming. Many of these experiences showcase an informal learning component which has strong ties to early career success as suggested by the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs, Informal Education
Brooks, Thomas Milton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In Mississippi, 57% of job vacancies through 2022 will be middle-skill jobs, but only an estimated 50% of the state's workers will be trained to fill these jobs. The ACT WorkKeys assessment is the primary credentialing tool for high school students entering the middle-skill labor force. The problem addressed in this study is while Mississippi uses…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Shea, Pauline – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research was to explore the various types and components of work-based learning experiences (WBLE), best practices, and the special education students' outcomes in a suburban public high school located outside of a large metropolitan area. Students with disabilities (SWD) have a difficult time transitioning postsecondary, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Special Education, Best Practices, Work Experience Programs
Tom Keily; Ben Erwin; Lauren Peisach – Education Commission of the States, 2024
High-quality career and technical education (CTE) and work-based learning opportunities can support students along a pathway to credential attainment, employment and upward economic mobility through intentional skill development and experiential learning. CTE concentration in high school can increase graduation rates while helping students build…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Educational Quality, Dual Enrollment, High Schools
Kocher, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience difficulty with transitioning to competitive integrated employment following high school. Addressing this disparity in transitioning to competitive integrated employment can be supported through a high school transition program with community-based work experiences for…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Transitional Programs, High School Students, Experiential Learning
Eiríksdóttir, Elsa – Education Sciences, 2020
This study examines how recently graduated journeymen, vocational teachers, and workplace trainers view the integration between learning at school and at work in a dual vocational education and training (VET) system, and how these views might be influenced by the duration and the sequencing of school- and work-based learning periods. Research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Vocational Education, High School Students
Baker, Sarah J.; Moran, Sandra; Lovett, Darin; Curtis, David D. – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
We describe a space industry work experience program and report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of this program, including its purposes, organisation, participants -- hosts and students -- and its outcomes. The program was a collaboration between the South Australian Department for Education, the South Australian Space Industry…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Satisfaction, Student Placement, Work Experience Programs
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
"Research Messages 2020" highlights the diverse range of research activities undertaken over the past year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Research published during 2019 encompasses a range of themes and topics categorised according to three broad areas: (1) structures and systems for skilling and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Dalporto, Hannah – MDRC, 2019
Career and technical education (CTE) programs (programs that teach students specific workplace skills aligned with the labor market) may track data for lots of different reasons: to comply with funding requirements, to manage their services and continually improve, to measure their progress toward their goals, and to evaluate whether they are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Data Use, Program Development, Data Collection
Dawson, Shirley; Allen, Melanie; King, Adam – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Apply and Communicate for Transition Now (ACTNow) Discussion Tool allows secondary students to effectively explore transition options through a respectful and honest conversation regarding expectations for success in chosen career pathways. In a one year randomized control research trial of 203 students with disabilities who used ACTNow,…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Special Education Teachers, Vocational Education Teachers, Transitional Programs
Bowen, Bradley; Shume, Teresa – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
This study investigates how participating in a teacher externship program increases the awareness of how effective communication plays a critical role in an industry-based environment. It also studies the teacher participants' commitment to changing their classroom practices as a result of acquiring this awareness. The program of focus, the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Summer Programs, Work Experience Programs, Elementary School Teachers
Waugh, Joanne; Circelli, Michelle – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
Australia entered the COVID-19 pandemic with a youth (15 to 24-year-old) unemployment rate of 11.6% in December 2019, three times higher than the 25 to 64-year-old unemployment rate of 3.6%. The strategies taken by governments to minimise the spread of COVID-19 have had widespread economic impacts. By July 2020, youth unemployment had risen to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Unemployment
Cmar, Jennifer L.; McDonnall, Michele C. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2019
Early work experiences predict future employment for youth with visual impairments, particularly when youth find jobs independently, but research has not supported the efficacy of sponsored work for this population. The most effective work experience programs include additional components such as job search assistance, and job search interventions…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Program Effectiveness, Youth, Visual Impairments
Sevak, Purvi; Feeney, Kathleen; Honeycutt, Todd; Peterson, Emily – Mathematica, 2021
The Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program offered high school students with disabilities an individualized and targeted approach to strategically plan for their futures. The Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) designed LLC to build on its usual services for high school students to emphasize unpaid and paid work-based learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Gonçalves, Nuno Pina; Palma, José António; Pereira, Karla Albuquerque – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2019
Higher education institutions and organisations have the responsibility to work together to provide better curricula and better projects aiming the market needs. This work highlights a constructivist approach and the work-based learning perspective giving the focus on a digital competence learning program in Portugal -- the BrightStart Program.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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