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Download full textChytra Mahanani; Edy Supriyadi; Thomas Sukardi; Sri Listiani; Urip Wahyuningsih – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
Haute couture-making techniques are critical competencies to be mastered by fashion engineering education (CEE) graduates. However, until now, many graduates have been unable to master these techniques optimally. Various studies and field phenomena confirm that they are unprepared for supporting knowledge (SK), socio-cultural, and psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Career Readiness
Direct linkNyarko, Samuel Cornelius; Petcovic, Heather L. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
Geoscience employers have increasingly called for the future workforce (students) to demonstrate competence in non-technical skills, including teamwork. This descriptive qualitative study contributes to ongoing efforts to identify the specific practices, skills, habits, and knowledge that make up these desired teamwork competencies in the…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Employer Attitudes, Earth Science, Soft Skills
Michal Balberg; Hen Friman; Heftsi Ragones; Ifaa Baner; Revital Shechter; Gila Kurtz – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a dedicated soft skills (SSs) course in an electrical engineering (EE) undergraduate program, showing improvements in students' appreciation and satisfaction of expressing most of these skills. Background: SSs, encompassing interpersonal and social competencies, are important for career…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Addie May Rimmer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Interpersonal skills, which are variously called soft skills, employability skills, people skills, and noncognitive skills, are critically important in personal, academic, and workplace settings. This descriptive case study explored how individuals from underserved communities described the use of reflective learning journals in an interpersonal…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Reflection, Employment, Job Training
Fernandez-Arias, Pablo; Anton-Sancho, Alvaro; Barrientos-Fernandez, Amelia; Vergara-Rodriguez, Diego – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
The importance of soft skills in the professional work of an engineer is becoming increasingly important, even more so since the emergence of COVID-19 boosted the digitization of all professional sectors. In order for future engineers to acquire this type of skills, it is necessary for engineering professors to have an optimal level of technical…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Engineering Education, College Faculty, Gender Differences
Munir, Fouzia – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
In the 21st century, with the exponential rise in global population and a greater demand for environmental resources, the focus of engineering is on integrated solutions within a multifarious context. To successfully navigate today's multidisciplinary and multicultural environment, engineers require soft skills in addition to their technical or…
Descriptors: Engineering, Professional Personnel, Attitudes, Soft Skills
Ocyna Rudmann; Anatolia Batruch; Emilio Paolo Visintin; Nicolas Sommet; Pascal Bressoux; Céline Darnon; Marinette Bouet; Marco Bressan; Genavee Brown; Carlos Cepeda; Anthony Cherbonnier; Marie Demolliens; Anne-Laure De Place; Olivier Desrichard; Théo Ducros; Luc Goron; Brivael Hemon; Pascal Huguet; Eric Jamet; Ruben Martinez; Vincent Mazenod; Nathalie Mella; Estelle Michinov; Nicolas Michinov; Nana Ofosu; Pascal Pansu; Laurine Peter; Benoit Petitcollot; Celine Poletti; Isabelle Régner; Mathilde Riant; Anais Robert; Camille Sanrey; Arnaud Stanczak; Farouk Toumani; Simon Vilmin; Eva Vives; Fabrizio Butera – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Considering the evolving and unpredictable job market, adaptability is an important skill for young adults. Such adaptability implies that schools need to teach key social competences, like communication, collaboration, or problem-solving. In this area, a gender gap has consistently been found, showing that boys display social competences less…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Longitudinal Studies
Emotional Intelligence Capabilities That Can Improve the Non-Technical Skills of Accounting Students
de Bruyn, M. – Accounting Education, 2023
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) requires its member professional accounting organisations and their authorised educators to adopt the overarching guidelines that are provided in the International Education Standards (IES). Despite these requirements, which include that accounting students develop several non-technical skills…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Capacity Building, Soft Skills, Accounting
Sara N. Mathis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a packaged workplace social skills intervention comprised of behavior skills training, video modeling, and task analyses on the percentage of workplace social skills steps accurately demonstrated during a role-play for transition-age individuals with autism without intellectual disability. Results…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Soft Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Batista, Mariane Pires; Romani-Dias, Marcello – Journal of Education for Business, 2022
In order to identify the main skills required by the labor market and to relate these skills to those developed by institutions accredited by AACSB, we conducted a qualitative study by triangulating information from the literature, World Economic Forum and interviews with accreditation experts, faculty, and students, to argue that accredited…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Business Administration Education, Soft Skills, International Education
Tadjer, Houda; Lafifi, Yacine; Seridi-Bouchelaghem, Hassina; Gülseçen, Sevinç – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
To assume the productivity of students in the workplace, the higher educational institutions would be faced by a challenging reality that of how to keep focus on technicalities while improving the set of soft skills. Therefore, the main aim of this research is improving students' soft skills and thus their cognitive skills in parallel, to prepare…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Soft Skills, Skill Development
Kwok, Man Lung Jonathan; Kwong, Raymond – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to identify the antecedents of learning from mistakes within the student group work setting. Specifically, this study provides empirical evidence of how team-member exchange (TMX) positively leads to learning from mistakes via person-focused interpersonal citizenship behaviours (ICBs) and of the boundary condition of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Error Correction, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning
Tuba Arabaci Atlamaz; Elif Bengü; Ceyda Cihan Aydogdu; Sebnem Soylu – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
In today's job market, soft skills are increasingly crucial, surpassing technical knowledge. Traditional lectures fall short in teaching these skills, prompting universities to explore new methods of instruction. A Turkish public university introduced a curriculum with non-disciplinary courses called Personal Development Pathway (PDP) courses for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Soft Skills
Cecilia Latorre-Cosculluela; Verónica Sierra-Sánchez; Sandra Vázquez-Toledo – Smart Learning Environments, 2025
The importance and benefits of teamwork in the university context have been widely recognized in recent decades. However, there is little evidence that analyzes the effects of the combination of collaborative learning strategies and gamification methodologies for the improvement of transversal skills and academic performance. In this sense, in…
Descriptors: College Students, Gamification, Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning
Mansureh Kebritchi; Ryan Rominger; Mark McCaslin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Online education has become an integral part of higher education with the ever-increasing demand for online doctoral programs. The purpose of this mixed-method study was to explore the nature of student success and contributing factors to improving student success for nontraditional students in an online doctoral program. Relationships between…
Descriptors: Success, Nontraditional Students, Doctoral Students, Online Courses
