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Xiao Yun Sim; Yuan Zhou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This study examined lived experiences of two international student affairs professionals in the United States. Through a series of interviews, the dialogues unfold rich narratives that explore the multifaceted journey from academic preparation to career placement in the field of higher education student affairs (HESA). It also underscores the…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Roux, Anne M.; Rast, Jessica E.; Anderson, Kristy A.; Garfield, Tamara; Shattuck, Paul T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
U.S. policy interventions encourage earlier provision of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services to support students and youth with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during the transition from school to work. We analyzed Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA-911) data using multivariable logistic regression to determine the…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
Kirsten Alyssa Knowles – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study investigated the role of K-12 education in breaking the cycle of poverty in the Southeastern Public School District, focusing on the relationship between school-level poverty and key student outcomes: (a) graduation rates, (b) job placement, and (c) college acceptance. This study assessed the timing of federal-, state-,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate
Sandlin, Deborah L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research project is a study comparing for-profit schools and traditional universities related to student persistence, graduation rate, and job placement. The results based on a sample size of 92 students indicate that there is no significant difference between persistence, graduation rates and successful job placement at either school. There…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Comparative Analysis, College Students
Dunne, Julie – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2019
This study investigated the effect of activities to promote awareness of specific prioritised graduate attributes on the quality of reflection displayed in work-placement reflective blog assessments for Pharmacy-technician students. Previous related research showed an increased tendency to frame placement experiences in terms of graduate…
Descriptors: Pharmacy, Technical Education, Reflection, Job Placement
Brooks, Ruth; Youngson, Paul L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Combining work experience with degree-level study is seen as a key differentiator for securing employment upon graduation in a competitive employment market. The positive benefits of sandwich courses, where up to 12 months is spent working in industry, are widely acknowledged in academic literature though data analysis tends to focus on cohorts in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Career Development, Academic Achievement
Organ, Alison – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This case study examines student perceptions of the experiential value of a work placement carried out as part of a languages degree programme. The data for the case study consists of a corpus of 67 reports submitted from 2011 to 2015, reflecting on placements carried out in Europe, Japan, the UK and the US. The data offers a student view of the…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Thompson, Carleen M.; Bates, Lyndel; Bates, Merrelyn – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
If work-integrated learning (WIL) improves students' work self-efficacy (WSE), are students who do not participate in WIL disadvantaged? This study answers this question by examining differences in WSE between final-year criminal justice students at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) who elected to undertake WIL and those who did not.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Student Participation, Advantaged
Akhurst, Jacqueline – Psychology Teaching Review, 2016
The drives to internationalise the UK curriculum and psychology students' desires to work in communities are brought together in this paper. International community-based learning (ICBL) links with many psychology students' motivations to make contributions to others; with the potential to enhance students' learning and cultural sensitivities. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
Sheepway, Lyndal; Lincoln, Michelle; McAllister, Sue – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Speech-language pathology students gain experience and clinical competency through clinical education placements. However, currently little empirical information exists regarding how competency develops. Existing research about the effectiveness of placement types and models in developing competency is generally descriptive and based…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Competence, Undergraduate Students, Job Placement
Gentry, Tony; Kriner, Richard; Sima, Adam; McDonough, Jennifer; Wehman, Paul – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are versatile task organizers that hold promise as assistive technologies for people with cognitive-behavioral challenges. This delayed randomized controlled trial compared two groups of adult workers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to determine whether the use of an Apple iPod Touch PDA as a vocational…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Handheld Devices, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Changjun, Yue – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
Based on data from nationwide surveys of graduates conducted in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 by the Institute of Economics of Education, Peking University, this article provides a statistical comparative analysis of employment results and the job search process. It examines the characteristics of college graduate employment in China, as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, College Graduates, Employment
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
Carruthers, Celeste K.; Sanford, Thomas – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Many higher education institutions award credentials below the associate's degree level, yet little is known about the pecuniary returns to sub-baccalaureate awards like diplomas (for the culmination of a program of study lasting one to two years) and certificates (for the successful completion of portions of those programs, often within one or…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employment, Community Colleges, Salaries
Washington, Andre Lamont – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined how desktop virtual reality environment training (DVRET) affected state anxiety and vocational identity of vocational rehabilitation services consumers during job placement/job readiness activities. It utilized a quantitative research model with a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design plus some qualitative descriptive…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Job Placement, Vocational Rehabilitation