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Renee Rana Kazemipour Paquier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study responds to a national conversation about the role that Career Technical Education (CTE) might play in meeting workforce demand for soft skills. It is challenging for CTE programs to offer soft skills for several reasons. Both educators and employers tend to associate CTE with hard skills, or technical skills and therefore the programs…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Soft Skills, Community Colleges, Public Colleges
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Joseph G. Hoff; Adriana L. Medina – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Like an ecosystem, internationalization has interdependent elements. This case study focuses on one component, faculty preparation and development, which impacts other components such as student learning outcomes. Assessment of short-term study abroad student learning outcomes is a complex process involving faculty development, program design, and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Capacity Building, Outcomes of Education, Faculty Development
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McSherry, R.; Bettany-Saltikov, J.; Cummings, E.; Walker, K.; Ford, K.; Walsh, K. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2019
The aim of the paper is to report some of the research findings from a workshop held at an International Professional Doctorate Conference. The workshop aimed to elicit the views of attendees surrounding the following questions: How do you currently measure the impact and outcome of your professional doctorate programme(s)? What tools, frameworks,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Outcomes of Education, Workshops, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Bigelow, Nathan; Rodgers, Donald – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
This article describes the Social Entrepreneurship for Poverty Alleviation (SEPA) grant-writing program at Austin College. The SEPA program provides a service-learning experience in which students spend a summer writing grants with local nonprofit agencies. In the hope that others might choose to emulate our efforts, what follows is a detailed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grantsmanship, Grants, Proposal Writing
Arendale, David R., Comp. – Online Submission, 2020
This updated 2020 annotated bibliography reviews seven postsecondary peer cooperative learning programs that have been implemented nationally and internationally to increase student achievement. A number of the publications report how they adapted their programs due to COVID-19 restrictions and online delivery platforms. Technology use was more…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Cooperative Learning, Peer Teaching, Annotated Bibliographies
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Zayabalaradjane, Zayapragassarazan; Dharanipragada, Kadambari – Online Submission, 2022
In the last two decades, India has seen a massive rise in the number of medical schools. As a result, numerous issues, including the availability of qualified teachers, have made medical education in India challenging. Faculty development (FD) has gained significant attention because of its importance in educational capacity building. FD programs…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Foreign Countries, Medical School Faculty, Medical Schools
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Eschbach, Cheryl L.; Sirrine, J. R.; Lizotte, Erin; Rothwell, N. L. – Journal of Extension, 2016
This article describes an innovative evaluation plan we employed to capture outcomes of a multiyear beginning farmer program and, specifically, highlights the facilitation technique we used to document short-term and intermediate goals of the program that matched U.S. Department of Agriculture grant requirements and Extension administration…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Ferguson, Kristin M.; Ziemer, Kelly L.; Celada, M.; Oviedo, Sofia; Ansbrow, Jacqueline – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the influence of a community-based, service-coordination and delivery intervention (CONNECT Program) on urban, minority parents' human capital, financial capital, community social capital, and service utilization. Method: This study used a pre-posttest single group design and mixed methods…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Social Capital, Human Capital, Workshops
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Schachter, Robert – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
The New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW-NYC), one of the largest in the country, launched a continuing education initiative in 2015 in response to passage of a new statute mandating that all MSW-level state licensed social workers begin accumulating approved hours of continuing education as a requirement for…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Continuing Education, Professional Associations, State Policy
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2018
This evaluation report presents a baseline description of outcomes for the 2017-2018 school year, the first year of GEAR UP Austin implementation in AISD. Specifically, the report describes program implementation, student participation in GEAR UP Austin, and baseline student academic and college preparation outcomes. [For the executive summary,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation, College Readiness
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Hall, Dara M.; Hughes, Michelle A.; Thelk, Amy D. – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2017
Effective mentoring programs help to recruit new teachers and improve teacher retention rates (e.g. Ingersoll & Strong, 2011, Rideout & Windle, 2010). Many school districts require mentoring programs for new teachers; however, they do not always have the resources to prepare their teachers to mentor beginning teachers. Clinical faculty…
Descriptors: Mentors, Skill Development, Cooperating Teachers, Best Practices
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Groschwitz, Rebecca; Munz, Lara; Straub, Joana; Bohnacker, Isabelle; Plener, Paul L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidality are common among adolescents. School staff are often the first adults to be confronted with those behaviors. However, previous studies have shown a lack of knowledge and confidence in dealing with self-harming behaviors. Objectives of this study were to evaluate a workshop on NSSI and suicidality in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Destructive Behavior, Intervention, Workshops
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Dogan, Seçil Horasan; Cephe, Pasa Tevfik – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
With an approach to teaching as a performing art, this study investigated the effects of creative drama on eight teaching skills and perceptions of 15 ELT (English Language Teaching) student teachers who took part in a 30-hour creative drama workshop. Their video-recorded teaching in a real classroom atmosphere was observed and evaluated by the…
Descriptors: Drama, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Community Science Workshops (CSWs)--with funding from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation--created a network among the CSW sites in California. The goals of the CSW Network project have been to improve programs, build capacity throughout the Network, and establish new sites. Inverness Research has been…
Descriptors: Networks, Workshops, Student Surveys, Interviews
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Hachfeld, Gary A.; Bau, David B.; Holcomb, C. Robert; Craig, J. William – Journal of Extension, 2013
Dwindling public funding as well as greater competition for grant dollars create a challenge for Extension. For Extension to remain a financially viable organization, educators have to be able to produce substantive, measurable program outcomes and impacts. Evaluative data can inform program development and delivery, and helps administrators…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Program Development
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