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Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Grantee Submission, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
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Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Journal of Correctional Education, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
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Verleen K. Mcsween – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Successful retention of STEM majors that then successfully transition into the U.S. STEM workforce is a major challenge for institutions of higher education. The present work represents a quality improvement study of a custom-designed professional development course for undergraduate students characterized by an innovative integration of workforce…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, STEM Education, Biomedicine, Undergraduate Students
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Md Jahangir Alam; S. M. Ali Reza; Keiichi Ogawa; Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
Bangladesh is characterized by a high demand for skilled workers. Hence, the significance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) becomes crucial to address the existing skill gaps to stimulate economic development. This research addresses the major challenges that hinder the progress of TVET in Bangladesh. This study adopts a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Job Skills
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Dew, Angela; Murfitt, Kevin; Wellington, Monica; Gaskin, Cadeyrn J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: Internships may be a successful pathway for increasing employment rates among people with intellectual disability. This paper presents a summative evaluation of a brief film internship program for people with intellectual disability. Method: At the commencement and conclusion of the internship, semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Intellectual Disability, Film Production, Program Effectiveness
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko I. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills acquisition and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either emphasizes social or technical skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Soft Skills
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Holmes, Amy F.; Zhang, Shage; Harris, Benjamin – Accounting Education, 2019
Accounting instructors can embed effective writing into the curriculum, but how much instruction is enough to make a significant improvement in students' written products? In this quasi-experimental study, we compare the effect of three levels of minimal instructional intervention: all students in the study received a rubric outlining the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Accounting, Writing Skills, Intervention
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Doherty, Oran; Stephens, Simon – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores the implications for higher education of the rapid development in technology used by the manufacturing sector. Higher education programmes change or new courses are introduced in attempts to match labour market demands. However, the pace of change in the manufacturing industry challenges the authors to reconceive how…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs
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Geraskin, Nikolay I.; Krasnoborodko, Andrey A.; Glebov, Vasily B. – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This article summarises the results of a preliminary feasibility study and the experience of implementing Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) ideas during 2016-2019 in the education of nuclear specialists. The study is a form of empirical research. The results and findings regarding implementation of the CDIO approach are presented in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Talley, Nina L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative narrative inquiry study explored the perceptions and lived experiences of Generation Z college student interns as it relates to soft skill development from the concept of strengths based approach to internships. Employers express a growing concern that recent college graduates are not adequately prepared for the workplace with the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Student Experience, College Students, Internship Programs
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Tønseth, Christin; Bergsland, Ragnhild – Cogent Education, 2019
Introduction: Rehabilitation through formal education has been a long-term priority in the Norwegian criminal service. The rehabilitative effect of education is meant to result in employment and thereby ensure a successful return to society. Furthermore, education is considered as one of the most important ways to master life after ending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
National Literacy Trust, 2019
In September 2018, the National Literacy Trust launched its Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme, in partnership with Lancôme and their global Write Her Future literacy initiative, to challenge inequalities in employment opportunities for young women from disadvantaged communities. Words for Work: Women in Leadership gives girls and young…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Postsecondary Education
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Sansone, N.; Cesareni, D.; Ligorio, M. B.; Bortolotti, I.; Buglass, S. L. – Research Papers in Education, 2020
A blended university course whose design is inspired by the Trialogical Learning Approach is presented. The structure, activities, and content of the course are described in detail and followed by an explorative case-study conducted on data collected during the 2017-2018 edition of the course. The general aim was to understand the impact of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness
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Angelika Anderson; Dennis W. Moore; Vanessa C. Rausa; Simon Finkelstein; Shaun Pearl; Mitchell Stevenson – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Adults with autism spectrum disorder are underrepresented in the workforce. This review examined single case design research investigating vocational interventions for this population. Reporting of generalization and social validity data was also assessed. Eighteen studies met inclusion criteria. They were categorized as Behavioral Skills…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Skill Development, Behavior Development
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Clark, Kelly A.; Test, David W.; Konrad, Moira – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Post-school employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities continue to be inadequate when compared to their peers without disabilities (Newman et al., 2011). One barrier to employment for individuals with disabilities is a lack of employment "soft skills" (Riesen, Morgan, Schutlz, & Kupferman, 2014), such as punctuality and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Skill Development, Employment Qualifications, Secondary School Students
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