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BC Student Outcomes, 2022
Every year, the BC Student Outcomes Program collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2022, over 28,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented in this report. 90% of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
BC Student Outcomes, 2021
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2021, just over 29,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2021, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
BC Student Outcomes, 2020
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2020, more than 29,000 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2020, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
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Corcoran, Lynn; Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Wells, Lana – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Advancing Healthy and Socially Just Schools and Communities is a four-course graduate certificate program collaboratively developed by an interdisciplinary team comprised of faculty from the fields of Social Work and Education at a Canadian university. The aim of this program is to facilitate systems-level change through enhancing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Child Health, Violence
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Scott, David; Burns, Amy; Danyluk, Patricia; Ulmer-Krol, Sam – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2018
To address teacher retention in rural and remote areas, universities have begun to offer Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) programs to help people living in these communities gain their teacher certification. However, because many students who enrol in such programs have been out of school for many years, they often struggle with academic writing.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Areas, Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse
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Silver, Ivan; Campbell, Craig; Marlow, Bernard; Sargeant, Joan – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2008
Introduction: Several recent studies highlight that physicians are not very accurate at assessing their competence in clinical domains when compared to objective measures of knowledge and performance. Instead of continuing to try to train physicians to be more accurate self-assessors, the research suggests that physicians will benefit from…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physicians, Family Practice (Medicine), Program Effectiveness
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Russell, Tom; McPherson, Suzin; Martin, Andrea K. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2001
Used a framework of critical analysis to examine shortcomings of traditional programs of teacher education in Canada and considered some characteristics of alternative approaches from the literature. Stresses the importance of attention to program design and delivery and stakeholder collaboration. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2010
This paper presents the business plan of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology for 2010 to 2013. Advanced Education and Technology supports the advanced learning system by providing funding for advanced learning providers, coordinating and approving programs of study at public institutions, licensing and approving programs at private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Certification, Scholarships
Messersmith, David; And Others – 1987
During 1987, a total of 758,367 people (3 percent more than in 1986) took the General Educational Development (GED) tests at 3,314 testing locations. Of these, 511,973 earned scores qualifying them for equivalency credit. Thus, approximately 74 percent of the examinees who completed the test battery in 1987 earned scores that were sufficient to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Certificates, Equivalency Tests
Patterson, R. S.; And Others – 1984
This report summarizes 10 recommendations made by a select committee of Deans of Education from Alberta (Canada) universities for a model for preparing teachers in the province. Comments on the expected implications of each recommendation are provided. Recommendations were made in the areas of: (1) philosophy of teacher education; (2) entry…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Philosophy
Bossort, Patty, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This conference summary contains 36 presentations. Participants' comments, taken from response cards, are quoted throughout. Presentations from the Opening Plenary include a keynote address--"What Is Literacy?: Critical Issues for the Next Decade" (John Ryan) and four "Panelist Presentations" (Francis Kazemek, Lorraine Fox,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Involvement, Community Services