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Oborin, M. S.; Gvarliani, T. E.; Nagoeva, T. A.; Ponomareva, M. A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
Subject: The domestic system of a professional training for tourist-recreational activity and resort business is considered in the article. The topic of the research can be considered actual due to the growing interest of the subjects of the tourist market to the development of the country's activities, the success of which depends on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tourism, Hospitality Occupations, Professional Development
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Makhashova, Patima; Meirmanov, Asylbek; Zhunusbekov, Zhaxybek; Makasheva, Orynkul; Mirzaliyeva, Elmira; Ermuratova, Almagul; Sakenov, Janat – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the topic revealed is caused by necessity to update the organization of professional activity for pedagogical higher education institution on a competence-based basis, creating conditions for developing the corresponding professional competences in students of creative pedagogical specialties. The paper addresses the structure,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Creativity, Specialists, Higher Education
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Llorens, Ariadna; Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina; Llinàs-Audet, Xavier – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Engineering education is facing new challenges to effectively provide the appropriate skills to future engineering professionals according to market demands. This study proposes a model based on active learning methods, which is expected to facilitate the acquisition of the professional skills most highly valued in the information and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Profiles, Engineering Education, Professional Development
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Guzanov, Boris N.; Tarasyuk, Olga V.; Bashkova, Svetlana A.; Ustakova, Daria A.; Sotskova, Svetlana I. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The topicality of the problem under study is based on requirements of the society and the shortage of teachers of vocational education on the labour market, aimed at successful vocational and pedagogical activities by means of the needed level of development of profession-oriented and specialized competences through self-development and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies
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Shibru, Sintayehu; Bibiso, Mesfin; Ousman, Kedir – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore factors that affect institutional performance of Wolaita Sodo University. The study has identified middle level manager's perceptions toward institutional performance to indicate the key factors that seem to affect the performance of the university. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Leadership, Higher Education
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van den Bogaart, Antoine C. M.; Hummel, Hans G. K.; Kirschner, Paul A. – Professional Development in Education, 2018
This article explores how personal professional theories (PPTs) develop. PPT development of nine junior accountants and nine novice teachers was monitored by repeated measurements over a period of 1.5 years, from the last year of vocational education until the second year of their professional careers. Computer-supported construction of PPT…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Theories, Beliefs
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Stephens, Michael; Jones, Kyle M. L. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2015
From the cutting edge of innovations in online education comes the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), a potentially disruptive and transformational mechanism for large-scale learning. What's the role of librarians in a MOOC? What can librarians learn from participating in a large-scale professional development opportunity delivered in an open…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Librarians
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Jones, Stephanie J.; Warnick, Erika M.; Taylor, Colette M. – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2015
Though the number of women employed in the workforce has increased, there continues to be an inequity in employment of women in the highest ranks of community colleges. Guided by gendered organizational theory, the study looked at both overt and covert knowledge of genderedness at community colleges. As one might infer, institutional genderedness…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Work Environment, Women Faculty, Sex Fairness
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Blau, Gary; Hill, Theodore L.; Snell, Corinne; Atwater, Craig; Halbert, Terry; Zuckerman, M. Michael – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
This study's results, with 664 surveyed graduating business students, demonstrated that creating four groups, using gender and quantitative or nonquantitative major, was useful for testing their relationships to professional development behaviors and expected employment. Results showed that male-nonquantitative majors (n = 144) reported the lowest…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Professional Development, Majors (Students), Employment
Newman, Kevin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
School administrators are responsible for ensuring state and federal special education laws and regulations are being implemented properly. This study examined the amount of training a Virginia school principal receives while attending principal preparation programs as well as professional development offered by their school division on how to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Professional Development, Legal Responsibility
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Kimberlin, Stephanie; Yezierski, Ellen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Students' inaccurate ideas about what is represented by chemical equations and concepts underlying stoichiometry are well documented; however, there are few classroom-ready instructional solutions to help students build scientifically accurate ideas about these topics central to learning chemistry. An intervention (two inquiry-based activities)…
Descriptors: Stoichiometry, High School Students, Chemistry, Intervention
Naser, Diana D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the ever-changing clinical research environment, academic health centers seek leaders who are visionary and innovative. Clinical trials offices across the country are led by individuals who are charged with promoting growth and change in order to maximize performance, develop unique research initiatives, and help institutions achieve a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Schools, Clinical Diagnosis, Administrators
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Keevers, Lynne; Lefoe, Geraldine; Leask, Betty; Sultan, Fauziah K. P. Dawood; Ganesharatnam, Sumitha; Loh, Vincent; Lim, Jane See Yin – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
Significant changes have occurred in the international education landscape driven by the need for access to higher education in developing countries. One response to this situation has been the provision of higher education in the developing country via partnership arrangements with overseas institutions. Rapid growth in transnational programmes…
Descriptors: International Education, Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Katherine, Lindsey – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to identify the leadership competencies and characteristics that are "preferred" by student affairs administrators, and to compare these preferences across generations to determine if there were any differences. The term "preferred" was used to indicate that the study asked respondents to assign a value or a level of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Integrity, Factor Analysis, Correlation
Reed, Kathaleen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, skills, abilities and traits environmental engineers need. Two questions were asked: what skills are considered important, and where are they learned? Dreyfus and Dreyfus' novice-to-expert model, which describes a progressive, five-step process of skill development that occurs over time…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Continuing Education, Experiential Learning
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