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Education Commission of the States, 2020
Following a high-quality early care and pre-K experience, the kindergarten-through-third-grade years set the foundation upon which future learning builds; and strengthening this continuum creates opportunities for later success. Key components of a quality experience in K-3 include school readiness and transitions, kindergarten requirements,…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Primary Education, Teacher Certification
Rachel Najdek – ProQuest LLC, 2023
University-based certificate programs for students with intellectual disabilities have grown in number since the passing of the Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA) in 2008. The Comprehensive Transition Program (CTP) designation and Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) grant were created…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Student Certification, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Crowley, Lucy; Jeske, Debora – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
One increasingly important aspect for graduates to demonstrate in the context of graduate recruitment is their potential fit to the job and organisation. Using an opportunity sample of 43 recruiters at two career fairs in Ireland, we explored the extent to which graduate attributes incorporate fit, which categories of fit were mentioned, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recruitment, Personnel Selection, College Graduates
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Hendrickson, Peggy Bell – College and University, 2021
In this digital age, how do institutions know what documents to accept and from whom? This year's school closures, distance learning, online education, and other upheavals have made it even more critical for institutions to ensure that they are accepting official academic records from valid sources. Typically, receiving official documents…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Computer Mediated Communication, Academic Records, Electronic Mail
Oregon Department of Education, 2021
High School graduation rates are key indicators of accountability for high schools and school districts in Oregon. Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) implemented the cohort method of calculating graduation rates. The cohort method identifies the year the student entered high school for the first time…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Cohort Analysis, Accountability
Daugherty, Lindsay – RAND Corporation, 2021
Individuals in the United States can pursue a variety of different types of postsecondary education credentials. This Perspective describes four common types: degrees, certificates, industry certifications and licenses, and apprenticeships. Bachelor's degrees are the most commonly awarded postsecondary credential in the United States…
Descriptors: Credentials, Postsecondary Education, Academic Degrees, Certification
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McNamara, Billie; Sun, Qi – Commission for International Adult Education, 2021
Micro-credentialing is unique because it spans epistemological paradigms, theoretical frameworks, and research methodologies in every academic discipline. Micro-credentialing and related technologies promote formal, non-formal, and informal learning among global adult learners through public-domain Open Educational Resources (OER) and other online…
Descriptors: Credentials, Adult Education, Open Educational Resources, Informal Education
Anjanette Hendricks; Steve Myran; Petros J. Katsioloudis; William Owings; Leslie Kaplan – Online Submission, 2021
As America's key industries offer high salaries in return for candidates with the necessary abilities and credentials to fill their vacancies, the knowledge, skills, and third-party industry credentials earned in secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs seem a close match. Using a non-experimental, quantitative study, this research…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Industry, Credentials, Economic Factors
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Cobb, Peter J.; Golub, Koraljka – Education for Information, 2022
The digital humanities (DH) is an emerging field of teaching and research that invites modern technologies to address traditional humanities questions while simultaneously making space for humanistic critiques of those technologies. A natural relationship exists between DH and the field of information studies (the iField), particularly surrounding…
Descriptors: Humanities, Technology Uses in Education, Information Science, Information Science Education
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Mustaffa, Jalil Bishop – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2022
The scholarly paper explores how racial justice and college credentials have become conflated despite the higher education system being a site of anti-Blackness. The argument is advanced through analyzing critiques of higher education--stratification, lack of support, un(der)employment, and consumerism--on Kanye West's first album "The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racial Bias, Credentials, Social Stratification
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McLennan, Brad; Peel, Karen L.; Burnett, Elizabeth; Danaher, Patrick Alan – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2022
Currently, an almost exclusively female workforce provides the government mandated adult supervision of Australian primary and secondary school students enrolled in distance education, including geographically isolated learners. These Remote Education Tutors (RETs) include unpaid family support providers and externally employed governesses and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Tutors, Rural Education
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Gardner, Alexander C.; Maietta, Heather N.; Gardner, Philip D.; Perkins, Niki – Adult Learning, 2022
This study sought to fill a gap in the literature by considering the role of motivation in post-secondary aspirations of adult learners, specifically full versus part-time status, previous level of educational attainment, years of work experience, and the selection of an academic program. The data from this study came from adult students ages 25…
Descriptors: College Students, Adult Students, Student Motivation, Credentials
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Berry, Risha R.; Reardon, Robert Martin – Education and Urban Society, 2022
Leadership training and administrative experience are key components of sponsored mobility as the candidate's participation in district- or school-sponsored training for aspiring school principals combined with the opportunity to avail of administrative experiences effectively constitute a pipeline to the principalship. The literature reveals that…
Descriptors: Principals, African Americans, Leadership Training, Whites
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Ison, Matthew P. – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: Dual enrollment has become a significant portion of community college enrollment throughout the country. Some scholars have argued that dual enrollment implementation can be used as a viable policy lever to achieve the certificate and associate degree obtainment outcomes identified in "Reclaiming the American Dream," a…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Performance
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Fein, David; Maynard, Rebecca A. – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Abt Associates received a grant from the Institutes for Education Sciences (IES) for a five-year "Development and Innovation" study of PTC. The purposes of the study were to gauge progress in implementing PTC and to develop and test improvements where needed. Fein et al. (2020) summarize the IES study's approach and findings. A…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Program Improvement, College Students
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