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H. Alix Gallagher; Benjamin W. Cottingham; Leah Faw – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2025
The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9
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Greere, Anca – Quality in Higher Education, 2023
Derived from practical experience, this article outlines key aspects to be considered when developing a training programme focused on quality assurance in higher education and suggests possible measures of success for training delivery. Practice-based professional reflections are systematised into an applicable, duly tested, quality assurance…
Descriptors: Training, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Higher Education
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Poh Kiong Tee; Tat-Huei Cham; Eugene Cheng-Xi Aw; Adham Khudaykulov; Xiaoyu Zhang – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: Digitalisation is reshaping the learning process, shifting it towards personalisation and online learning, and fuelling the growth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and micro-credentials. Despite being a popular global trend, limited studies have looked at micro-credentials and their impact on learners' behavioural outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Student Recruitment, Student Participation, Costs
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Jerez Gomez, Maria Pilar; Bojica, Ana; Martínez-del-Río, Javier; Karaja, Reem – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to shed light on how internships' features drive employability outcomes and answers the question of how internships that maximize the employability of interns can be designed. The study assumes that the duration of an internship, degree of formalization and the use of internship-specific motivational practices by companies…
Descriptors: Program Design, Apprenticeships, Employment Potential, Outcomes of Education
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Tiyamike Ngonda; Richard Nkhoma; Thabo Falayi – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: The study compares how work-integrated learning (WIL) placement positioning, duration, assessment strategies and environment at three Southern African universities influence engineering students' academic and employability outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a qualitative case study approach that drew on the principles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning
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Thomas Bardy; Lars Holzäpfel; Frank Reinhold; Timo Leuders – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
The selection of tasks based on the evaluation of task features can be considered a core practice of teaching and a relevant component of teaching quality. This is typically part of teachers' preparation for their classroom teaching, which prompts the following question: What are the characteristics of the tasks that teachers use when selecting…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality
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Olds, Anita; Jones, Angela; Sturniolo-Baker, Rebekah; Clarke, Shane; Dawson, Jaimee; McGrath, Wesley; Plumb, Curtis; Schwartz, Catherine; White, Carmel – Student Success, 2022
A growing body of literature and rhetoric from the secondary sector recognises that traditional senior secondary curriculums are not catering to all university aspirational students. This need created an opportunity for University Preparation Pathways (UPP) at Murdoch University to provide a transitional path for an underserviced cohort.…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Transitional Programs, High Schools, College School Cooperation
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Raquel María Pérez-García; Amaya Erro-Garcés; Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta; Antonio López Peláez – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: Doctoral programs play a crucial role in promoting innovation and technology transfer in universities. To design these programs effectively and with a co-design perspective, it is essential to consider all stakeholders involved in the process, including teachers, students and employers. The main objective of this study is to enhance…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Employment Potential, Program Design
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Feld, Susanne – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic upended the Education Abroad (EA) field when inperson programming and travel became impossible. In order to continue offering international experiences to students, many universities and organizations developed virtual EA offerings (VEA). This article presents data from a study that examined educators' experiences creating,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Study Abroad, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Winborg, Joakim; Hägg, Gustav – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: In the literature there is limited knowledge about how to prepare students for a corporate entrepreneurial career. The purpose is therefore to develop a framework for understanding the role corporate development projects play in corporate entrepreneurship education, and to examine the potential role of the design of the project. The study…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Career Development, Corporations, Entrepreneurship
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Iris Lim – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Teaching soft skills like team dynamics and critical thinking in content-heavy higher education curriculum can be challenging. Employing educational escape rooms is a novel game-based learning strategy in various disciplines, including health sciences. Escape rooms provide the opportunity for a group to work together as they solve puzzles within a…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Educational Games, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Sitron, Justin A.; Lock, Li – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
Sexological worldview is the lens through which someone sees and makes meaning of the sexual world around them. The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) may be a useful tool in operationalizing cultural humility and responsiveness to sexological differences. This research explored whether the DMIS explains the stages of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, World Views, Sexuality, Professional Personnel
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Yasin, Naveed; Khansari, Zeinab – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise education (social innovation and enterprise) learning programme on the enterprising characteristics among interdisciplinary undergraduate enterprise education students from a general (without considering gender) and gender-specific perspective at a higher education institution in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Entrepreneurship
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Elizabeth Leisy Stosich; Rebecca A. Thessin; Coby V. Meyers – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: This study examines a university-based professional learning program, the University School Systems Program (USSP), designed to strengthen district- and school-level leadership for improvement. The program has a record of success in improving student outcomes in participating schools, yet little is known about how the program design may…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Districts, Educational Theories, Educational Change
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Beames, Simon; Mackie, Chris; Scrutton, Roger – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2020
Experiences of outdoor education are believed to have significant impacts on participants, but research on the lasting influences of extended programmes is limited. Gordonstoun School, an independent residential school founded by Kurt Hahn in 1934, provides a rich legacy of outdoor education against which to explore any enduring outcomes. Drawing…
Descriptors: Alumni, Boarding Schools, Outdoor Education, Program Design
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