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Wendy Nuis; Mien Segers; Simon Beausaert – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
To keep up with technological advances and macro-economic trends, higher education has increasingly focused on developing students' employability competences through mentoring programs. However, measuring the effectiveness of such mentoring programs has remained difficult, because many mentoring measurements are not validated or grounded in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Employment Potential, College Programs, Higher Education
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Espen Hektoen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2025
Pedagogical competence development programs in universities are gaining in importance across national contexts. In response to the demand for better teaching in higher education, Scandinavian universities have made the programs a standard part of the application for full employment and qualification for a professorship. Though pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Higher Education
Lelys Dinarte-Diaz; Maria Marta Ferreyra; Sergio Urzua; Marina Bassi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, College Programs
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Blankenberger, Bob; Gehlhausen Anderson, Sophia; Lichtenberger, Eric – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Policymakers and institutional leaders in higher education too often make decisions based on descriptive data analyses or even anecdote when better analysis options could produce more nuanced and more valuable results. Employing the setting of higher education program evaluation at a midwestern regional public university, for this study we…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Public Colleges
Finney, Sara J.; Wells, Jennifer B.; Henning, Gavin W. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
On their own, student learning and development outcomes assessment data have limited utility for improving programming. We believe outcomes data should not be collected until two fundamental questions can be answered: "Why should this programming result in the desired outcome?" (i.e., program theory) and "Was the intended…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, College Outcomes Assessment, Behavioral Objectives
Weiss, Michael J.; Unterman, Rebecca; Biedzio, Dorota – MDRC, 2021
Some education programs' early positive effects disappear over time. Other programs have unanticipated positive long-term effects. Foundations warn of the dangers of putting too much weight on in-program effects, which, they say, often fade after a program ends. This Issue Focus tackles the topic of post-program effects in postsecondary education.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, College Credits, Program Evaluation
Pooja Patel; Sosanya Jones; James Dean Ward – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
The population of adult learners with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) has risen over the years to over 40 million individuals. A smaller subset of this population has debt that they owe their institutions directly in addition to state, federal, or private loans. As of 2020, approximately 6.6 million students owed more than $15 billion in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Pilot Projects
Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
The dataset used in this report was created by combining Bridge to Finish intervention records, provided by the United Way of King County (UWKC), with student information provided by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). The intervention records span the terms from summer 2018 through fall 2021. SBCTC data include these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
Henderson, Brit; Holman, Daron; Lacalli, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Higher education offers many benefits to individuals and society--including increased employment opportunities and higher wages--and can help disrupt cycles of intergenerational poverty by improving economic outcomes for those who earn postsecondary credentials. Public community and technical colleges offer a relatively affordable, open-access…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
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Marciniak, Renata – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The quality assurance of online Higher Education online programmes is one of the great challenges faced by Spanish universities. Regular assessment of these programmes is essential in order to take actions to improve their quality. The said assessment should be complex and include all of the components of the programme, as well as its planning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, College Programs
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Wilson, Caroline; Broughan, Christine; Marselle, Melissa – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
In this article we explore the potential for attempts to encourage student engagement to be conceptualised as behaviour change activity, and specifically whether a new framework to guide such activity has potential value for the Higher Education (HE) sector. The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) (Michie, Susan, Maartje M van Stralen, and Robert West.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Behavior Change, Intervention
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Bergsmann, Evelyn; Klug, Julia; Burger, Christoph; Först, Nora; Spiel, Christiane – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
There is a lively discussion on how to evaluate competence-based higher education in both evaluation and competence research. The instruments used are often limited to course evaluation or specific competences, taking a rather narrow perspective. Furthermore, the instruments often comprise predetermined competences that cannot be adapted to higher…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Minimum Competency Testing, Screening Tests, Higher Education
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Kim, Seon-Joo – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
CAMPUS Asia (Collective Action for Mobility Program of University Students in Asia) is a student-exchange program designed to promote student mobility between South Korea, China, and Japan. Begun in 2011, the program aims to foster the next generation of leaders in Asia by nurturing young talents with shared visions. This article provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Formative Evaluation, Program Development
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Zibeniene, Gintaute – Quality of Higher Education, 2013
The article introduces external quality assessment results of first cycle and second cycle study programmes renewed under the Human Resources Development Action Programme 2007-2013 priority direction 2 "Lifelong Learning" (hereinafter the "Programme") through the aspect of planning students' independent work. Problems faced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, College Programs, Higher Education
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Johnson, Tristan E.; Yukselturk, Erman; Top, Ercan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
The purpose of the study was to analyze two certificate programs in regard to the impacts on alumni professional career and strengths and weaknesses of certificate programs in the views of their alumni. The sample consisted of 58 participants who completed one of the certificate programs. The results showed that alumni rated self-improvement as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Certificates, Program Evaluation, Alumni
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