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L. Danielle Roberts-Dahm; Lyman L. Dukes III – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2024
This study examined components of inclusive postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual disability correlated with employment upon program exit, through secondary analyses of student-level data obtained from the Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSID) National Coordinating Center…
Descriptors: College Students, Inclusion, Intellectual Disability, Education Work Relationship
Andrew S. Hanks; Shengjun Jiang; Xuechao Qian; Bo Wang; Bruce A. Weinberg – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets. Furthermore, the protection double majors experience is more…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Outcomes of Education, Wages, Labor Market
Jenais Yvonne Means – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Approximately 25% of United States mental health practitioners are employed in private practice settings (BLS Data Viewer, 2021). However, the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, which sets standards for graduate level counseling programs, neither specifies private practice settings as a specialization nor an…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counselors, Counselor Attitudes, Work Environment
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Rola Ajjawi; David Boud – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Transcripts and testamurs serve to confirm the award of a degree but offer limited information on what a student can actually do. This conceptual paper considers the problem of how graduate achievements are represented by universities in typically reductive and limited ways that do not enable student achievements and distinctiveness to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Innovation, College Graduates, Employers
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Ana Berástegui; Graciela Suárez; María Dolores Gonzalez – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
This study analyzes the relationship between the employability competencies acquired after completing an employment training program at university and the subsequent access to employment of young people with intellectual disabilities. To do this, the employability competencies of 145 students were analyzed at the end of the program (T1) and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Competence, Employment Programs, Employment Potential
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Kamini Peersia; Natasha Anne Rappa; Laura B. Perry – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
There is growing evidence about the importance of establishing clarity around the 'work readiness' concept. A conceptual understanding of its meaning, structure, and components, as well as the essential characteristics for developing and assessing work readiness (WR), is not well established. This conceptual paper examines how WR can be…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Job Skills
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Leonie M. Miller; Simone Favelle – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Cognitive psychology is challenging for both teachers and learners due to the abstract and complex nature of mental processes and variation in student motivation. Objective: To test the effectiveness of an approach that seeks to motivate students to engage and successfully complete a cognitive psychology course by highlighting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Psychology, Skill Development
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Delis, A.; Jones, C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates whether the completion of an optional 'sandwich' work placement enhances graduate starting salaries. We use a variety of multivariate regression techniques to investigate this issue and find that the graduate starting salaries of students who took professional work placements were significantly higher by £1686 ($2105)…
Descriptors: Job Placement, College Graduates, Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
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Alexiadou, Nafsika; Rambla, Xavier – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Twenty years after the Lisbon strategy, education policy in the European Union (EU) is at a critical juncture, with a new set of strategic goals endorsed for the 2021-2030 decade. This article examines the complex interplay of ideas, institutions and actors, in articulating education policy priorities in the new European Education Area (EEA).…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries, Definitions
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Vu, Thai; Bennett, Dawn; Ananthram, Subramaniam – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Information seeking is integral to the workplace learning of organisational newcomers including new recruits, graduates in study-to-work transition, and students on work-integrated learning (WIL) placements. Despite the importance of information seeking in newcomers' workplace learning, previous research findings are fragmented and inconsistent.…
Descriptors: Employees, Novices, Graduates, Education Work Relationship
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Bowman, Richard F. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2023
There is a perception today that is broadly held but rarely voiced: That our political, economic, social, and academic institutions are increasingly "unfit" for public purpose. How students experience and prepare for a world of deep social change and unrelenting technological advances is something that educators can influence profoundly.…
Descriptors: Social Change, Technological Advancement, Beliefs, Work Environment
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Noha A. Alaa El Dine; Menatalla Kaoud – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
In the context of online education, which has been growing as a common approach, this paper examines the impact of working while studying on university students' academic performance, namely Cumulative GPA (CGPA), as a rising trend in Egypt, especially after the pandemic and the shift into online learning. The research followed an exploratory…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries
Martin, Lori Nichols – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Work-based learning (WBL) is a form of education that combines classroom learning with practical work experience. This approach is becoming increasingly popular as it helps students develop a range of skills employers highly value, such as communication, teamwork, problem solving, and leadership. This professional practice dissertation (PPD)…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Secondary School Students, Career Development, Career Readiness
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Valentine Jacobs; Kevin Pineda-Hernández; François Rycx; Mélanie Volral – Education Economics, 2023
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education outweighs the corresponding wage premium…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Immigrants, Labor Force, Human Capital
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Torres, William C.; Leach, Lesley F.; Glaman, Ryan; Higham, J. Russell – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
In this article, we present an example of a student's recently completed dissertation in practice (DiP) to demonstrate how the DiP can serve as culminating evidence of a student's successful preparation as a scholar-practitioner. The purpose of this DiP was to determine to what extent students develop workforce skills while completing a community…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skill Development, Labor Force Development, Community Colleges
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