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Boehm, Rodney – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
Entrepreneurial skills are being sought by companies as they consider college graduates, particularly engineers, for future employment. Technical skills have become the baseline while the ability to apply these skills in a business environment has become a key differentiator in the value of employees in corporate environments. To address this need…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Design, Extracurricular Activities
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Coleman, Sandra Lee; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Martirosyan, Nara M. – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2021
Despite their better-than-average preparation, former dual credit and advanced placement students have placed into developmental education upon entering higher education. In this phenomenological study, six students were randomly selected to be interviewed from a group of 562 who placed into developmental education at one Texas university during a…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, Phenomenology
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Leggette, Holli R. – Communication Teacher, 2020
Courses: Science communication courses across course levels. Objective: This activity aims to introduce students to critical thinking concepts and strategies that have applicability and transferability throughout students' academic and professional careers while deepening their understanding of identifying, discussing, and analyzing scientific…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Graphic Arts, Information Sources, Communication Strategies
MDRC, 2017
The United States must raise the graduation rates of community college students if it is to increase economic opportunity for individuals and improve the competitiveness of its workforce. Yet too many students arrive on campus academically underprepared and get placed into developmental (or remedial) courses where they fail to progress. For this…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Skill Development
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2019
Businesses throughout the United States are facing a tight labor market and a growing need for skilled workers. At the same time, millions of U.S. adults have foundational skills gaps in areas such as literacy or numeracy. This issue is especially acute among Americans with disabilities, who are twice as likely as their non-disabled peers to have…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Disabilities, Adult Education, Labor Force Development
Visher, Mary; Cerna, Oscar; Diamond, John; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – MDRC, 2017
Faced with many applicants with very low math skills, community colleges are responding with a variety of reforms, including restricting developmental courses to students with high-school-level skills. This brief provides context for the policy changes and describes the alternatives two colleges offer to those who don't make the cut. [This brief…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Low Achievement
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Szwed, Amanda; Walker, April M. – English in Texas, 2017
According to the National Conference of State Legislature (NCSL), the total population of individuals (including authorized and unauthorized immigrants) in the United States is 319 million, and one in five U.S. residents speak a language at home other than English (Camarota & Zeigler, 2014). With the increasing number of English Language…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Self Expression
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Simplicio, Joseph – Reading Improvement, 2015
Every day all across America teachers assign their students stories to read and summarize. Unfortunately, many of these students find this to be an exercise in futility. Lacking the skills to effectively analyze the material, these students often struggle to properly summarize what they have read because they have never mastered the correct…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Murthy, Carrie, Comp. – Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), US Department of Education, 2017
In May 2017, the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) College Access and Success community embarked on a project to compile shared challenges and lessons learned as a resource for fellow i3 College Access and Success grantees, the larger community of i3 grantees, and the broader field of college access. Through this project, the authors discovered…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Grants
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Shows, Amy R.; Killough, Jill E.; Jackson, Samantha; Lui, Janet – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2015
Educators in the field of family and consumer science (FCS) must be able to foster intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills in students (Schumacher, 2014), and internships are one way to do so. Internships are formal programs that provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession. Interns are temporarily placed…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Family Life Education, Internship Programs, Experiential Learning
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Evans-Palmer, Teri – Journal of Museum Education, 2013
Is a capability to engage students as fundamental to effective museum education as a working knowledge of the collections? What strategies can raise the level of engagement with students and sustain student engagement with works of art? What are the challenges that older students on school tours present to docents? This article highlights…
Descriptors: Museums, Professional Development, Self Efficacy, Learner Engagement
Almeida, Cheryl; Allen, Lili – Jobs For the Future, 2016
Through Job For the Future's (JFF's) work with communities around the country on the Back on Track model, postsecondary bridging strategies have emerged as a particularly critical and especially replicable component of programming for vulnerable youth. This issue brief offers a typology of evidence-informed bridge programming, drawing on…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Transitional Programs
Brennan, Deborah D. – Educational Leadership, 2015
As the first principal of a new Title 1 school in Texas, Deborah Brennan faced the challenge of where to begin improving instruction when a school's population bears no resemblance to the traditional Response to Intervention pyramid (in which 75-85 percent of students flourish with Tier 1 instruction). In contrast, nearly 300 of the 850 students…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Culture, Social Development, Emotional Development
Malbin, Joshua – MDRC, 2016
When they arrive at community colleges or open-enrollment universities, most students take placement exams in English and mathematics to determine whether they are ready for college-level courses. Students with low scores are referred to developmental--remedial--courses. Forty percent of all entering college students and over half of entering…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, College Students
Graham, Kate; Morrow, Jennifer – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2013
Through a literature review, and in the words of internees, this article describes the value of required internship for career growth. It notes that an internship experience ensures that students have a mentor who can be a professional reference, having actually witnessed what Mojkowski and Washor call the students' "non-academic"…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, High Schools, Educational Needs, Graduation Requirements
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