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Tiago Carvalho; Ana Correia Simões; Vasco Teles; António Henrique Almeida – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Previous studies show that digital transition brings several benefits and challenges for companies. Among those challenges, particularly for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), the main one is increased capacitation, from technical roles to management. Considering this, the main objective of this study is to identify the training needs and…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Educational Needs, Ecology, Job Skills
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Boateng, Annette Akuamoah; Essel, Harry Barton; Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios; Johnson, Esi Eduafua; Okpattah, Vincentia – Education Sciences, 2022
The study analysed the impact of the flipped classroom (FC) approach on weaving experience, self-efficacy and students' learning achievement. To achieve this purpose, a quasi-experimental (pre-test/post-test) design, with a control group and an experimental group, was implemented. A mixed methods approach was used to evaluate the outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods
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Autio, Ossi – Design and Technology Education, 2022
The aim of this study was to find out if there have been any changes in technical abilities among Finnish school children during the last 30 years. Technical abilities were first measured in the affective, psychomotor, and cognitive areas in the year 1993 and these results were later compared with the results from 2012 and 2022. The number of test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Technology Education, Trade and Industrial Education
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Karunaratne, Kingsley; Perera, Niroshani – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
Introduction: Educationalists and policy makers in the higher educational institutes have recently paid a closer attention to the concept of holistic education systems that focus at making a competent and versatile graduate. Incorporating an industrial internship programme in the degree curricular has been a vital requirement towards ensuring a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, School Business Relationship
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Joana, Amankwa; Selase, Gbadegbe Richard; Selorm, Gbetodeme; Emefa, Agra Florence – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
For a nation like Ghana to develop, it is necessary to pay much attention to Vocational and Technical Education. This is so because school programmes that place emphasis on theory courses or humanities are no longer useful to the nation.Graduates who offer such programmes find it very difficult to secure employment in the Ghanaian job market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Clothing Instruction, Textiles Instruction
Education Scotland, 2014
This report continues the series in which Education Scotland evaluates the quality of young people's learning and achievements, in this case in the technologies. The report contributes to the overall picture of what it is like to be a learner in a Scottish early learning or childcare setting or school in this second decade of the 21st Century. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Smeaton, Barry; Hughes, Maria; Hall, Graeme – 2002
The United Kingdom's Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA), UK SKILLS, and the Further Education Skills Competition Council conducted a collaborative action research project to improve students' vocational learning and skills through enhanced learning experiences. From February 2001 to April 2002, three further education colleges worked to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Case Studies