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Marchand, Geneviève; McMahan, Kelli; Hester, Hailey D.; Lewis, Patrick; Friesen, Philip Zook; Hobbs, Will – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2019
This paper reviews the findings of a professional task force from the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE), which explored the feasibility of and support for a credentialing system for students and young professionals aspiring to a career in the outdoor industry. The task force used initial public discussions to design a survey,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Leadership, Credentials, Cost Effectiveness, Standards
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Reichenberg, Olof – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The purpose of my paper is to describe and explain the probability of staying in temporary work for young people (age 16-27) in Sweden between 1992 and 2011 and its relation to socioeconomic outcomes (low socioeconomic classification and wage). I used panel data from the Swedish Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the longitudinal integration database…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables, Temporary Employment, Wages
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Livingstone, D. W.; Raykov, Milosh – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2017
This article summarizes the findings of a 2016 national survey of the formal schooling, further education, and job-related informal learning of the employed Canadian labour force and compares the results with those of prior national surveys conducted in 1998, 2004, and 2010. The major finding is an unprecedented growing gap between increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Adult Education, National Surveys
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Fischer, Mary; Marsh, Treba; Hunt, George L. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This study reports the findings of a study assessing the acceptability differences in decisions made by Certified Public Accounting practitioners (CPA) and students studying to become CPAs. The study responds to researchers' call for additional research on topics related to accounting decision ethics. Modified managerial and accounting recognition…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Ethics, Accounting, Value Judgment
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Brown, Martha A.; Rios, Steve J. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2014
Correctional educators, recognizing that the majority of inmates lack the math, reading, and language skills required to be successful in today's workplace, strive to equip offenders with the skills and abilities needed to find and maintain work on their release. However, most adult literacy programs in prisons fail to raise the gradelevel…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Job Training, Credentials, Workplace Learning
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Roksa, Josipa; Levey, Tania – Social Forces, 2010
While income inequality among college graduates is well documented, inequality in occupational status remains largely unexplored. We examine whether and how occupational specificity of college majors is related to college graduates' transition into the labor market and their subsequent occupational trajectories. Analyses of NLSY79 indicate that…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Credentials, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
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Quartz, Karen Hunter; Thomas, Andrew; Anderson, Lauren; Masyn, Katherine; Lyons, Barraza, Kimberly; Olsen, Brad – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Teacher retention, especially of qualified teachers within high-poverty schools, is an issue of local, national, and international concern. School staffing research has typically examined two groups: those who remain in full-time classroom teaching versus those who quit teaching altogether. This article complicates the teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Persistence, Careers, Context Effect
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Zibert, Jack; Engels, Dennis W.; Kern, Carolyn W.; Durodoye, Beth A. – Counseling and Values, 1998
In a survey of a random sample of counselors in counseling associations, respondents made dichotomous ethical judgments of counselor behavior in 25 vignettes. Ethical knowledge scores were compared with respect to professional membership division, sex, age, years of formal education, degree level, counseling experience, primary work setting,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Counselor Attitudes, Credentials, Demography