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Long Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the context of rapidly advancing technologies, the significance of noncognitive skills is increasingly recognized by academia and industry as essential qualities in the era of knowledge economy. However, the study of Chinese students' noncognitive skills development during their college period in China was scarce. This research adopts a case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Skill Development, Case Studies
Kavishe, Lulu-Lucy F. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As graduates have transitioned into the workforce, employers have complained that these younger employees lack the soft skills that are needed to be successful in the workforce. Soft skills are personal traits and skills that employers seek in employees. Internship programs can be used to develop soft skills. Few qualitative studies have looked at…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Soft Skills, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Orner, Margaret E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Every year children are unintentionally injured or killed due to finding an unattended firearm. Although research evaluating various approaches to teach safety skills shows that behavioral skills training and in situ training are effective, limited research exists evaluating small-scale simulation training in teaching safety skills to children.…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Simulation, Young Children
Shelita Watkis – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how beginner English Language Learners (ELLs) at the high school level were able to develop literacy skills in English by working collaboratively, accessing content presented which employed multimedia and multimodal resources, and expressing their learning through similar modes. The…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, High School Students, Novices, English Language Learners
Miller, Nicole Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
With the number of underprepared, at-risk students entering college, many institutions have developed initiatives to help support student success. Previous research has shown that peer mentoring has been used to support student success, but there is limited research on the mentoring experience from the peer mentors' perspective. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies