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Direct linkHachem, Hany; Nikkola, Eeva; Zaidan, Amani – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Context: In Lebanon, older adults face socioeconomic challenges that are expected to worsen due to an increase in older adult population, chronic governmental neglect, institutionalised ageism and a lack of educational and social gerontologists. Consequently, local older adults are in dire need for social change, which can be initiated through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Gerontology, Social Change, Older Adults
van Ooijen-van der Linden, Linda; van der Smagt, Maarten J.; Woertman, Liesbeth; te Pas, Susan F. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Prediction accuracy of academic achievement for admission purposes requires adequate "sensitivity" and "specificity" of admission tools, yet the available information on the validity and predictive power of admission tools is largely based on studies using correlational and regression statistics. The goal of this study was to…
Descriptors: Bias, Perception, Theories, Admission Criteria
Download full textArrieta, Martha I.; Fisher, Leevones; Shaw, Thomas; Bryan, Valerie; Hudson, Andrea; Hansberry, Shantisha; Eastburn, Sasha; Freed, Christopher R.; Shelley-Tremblay, Shannon; Hanks, Roma Stovall; Washington-Lewis, Cynthia; Roussel, Linda; Dagenais, Paul A.; Icenogle, Marjorie; Slagle, Michelle L.; Parker, L. Lynette; Crook, Errol – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
Although there is strong support for community engagement and community-based participatory research (CBPR) from public health entities, medical organizations, and major grant-funding institutions, such endeavors often face challenges within academic institutions. Fostering the interest, skills, and partnerships to undertake participatory research…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Public Health, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Villar, Feliciano; Giuliani, María Florencia; Serrat, Rodrigo; Curcio, Carmen-Lucía; Lopes, Alexandra; Maldonado, María de la Luz Martínez; Oliveira, Rita da Cássia – Educational Gerontology, 2017
One of the challenges of population aging is to ensure that there are enough trained professionals to meet the changing, specific needs of aging populations. The aim of this study was to describe the number, geographical distribution, and general characteristics of gerontological training programs offered by Latin American universities and to…
Descriptors: Gerontology, College Programs, Universities, Geographic Distribution
Talmage, Craig A.; Searle, Mark S.; Wilson, Kevin R. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2017
The coming future for parks and recreation education must not succumb to the nostalgia of the glory days of the past. Such nostalgia risks oversimplifying the challenges overcome in the past and challenges faced now and in the future. This paper presents compelling evidence for the repositioning of parks and recreation education. It first frames…
Descriptors: Parks, Recreation, College Programs, Educational Research
Doss, Daniel; Henley, Russ; McElreath, David; Lackey, Hilliard; Jones, Don; Gokaraju, Balakrishna; Sumrall, William – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors discuss the findings of a market study that preceded the offering of an academic program in homeland security. The university disseminated a mail survey to gain data for analysis of variance testing of several hypotheses regarding market perceptions of the intended homeland security program offering. Stratification involved segregating…
Descriptors: National Security, Academic Education, College Programs, Mail Surveys
Saulnier, Christine Flynn – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
For this study of social work degree programs, data were drawn from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) website, the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GASE) website, and the websites of 841 U.S. social work programs, including the 763 programs accredited (or in candidacy for accreditation) by CSWE when these data were…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, College Programs, Accreditation (Institutions)
Biloveský, Vladimír; Djovcoš, Martin – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2016
Institutional translation and interpreting training has a long lasting tradition in Slovakia mainly thanks to such significant translation scholars as Anton Popovic, František Miko, Ján Vilikovský and many others. However the situation has changed after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the education needed to start adapting to the new market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Interpretive Skills, Traditionalism
Nash, Scott; Harrison, Steve; Packham, Joel; Sanchez, Dawn; Jensen, Jim; Kaysen, Brett; King, Marc – Journal of Extension, 2016
The judging of a market animal at a fair is the highlight of a youth-owned livestock project. Livestock judges are hired to evaluate youth projects at fairs. They are critical ambassadors for agriculture and influence countless youths and adults. Judges must be knowledgeable about current animal evaluation methods that support youth development.…
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Judges, Exhibits, Youth Programs
Ikonnikova, Maryna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
It has been concluded that until recently debates on what is understood as African Studies have involved American scholars or have been mainly located within the African Studies Association (ASA) in the USA. Lately, European scholars have begun to occupy more discursive space and challenged Afrocentric orientations as well. African Studies…
Descriptors: African Studies, Linguistics, Professional Training, Web Sites
Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016
The need that emerged in Development Studies to trespass across disciplinary boundaries is discussed. An interdisciplinary characterization of Human Sustainable Development is sketched. Some attempts at the University of the Republic in Uruguay to foster related work that connects sciences and natural sciences are briefly described. This work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Institutional Advancement, Institutional Characteristics
Miller, Abby; Erwin, Mason; Richardson, Samantha; Arntz, Monika – National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, 2016
The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) commissioned this research paper to examine the postsecondary certificate program landscape and to extend the 2012 NPEC report, "Defining and Reporting Subbaccalaureate Certificates in IPEDS", which clearly identified…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Dissemination, Educational Certificates, Educational Trends
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2016
This paper aims to share the experiences of redesigning an elementary education program. Steps of redesigning the elementary education program were enumerated. Challenges in the redesign of the elementary education program were discussed. The new elementary education program was described. Lessons learned from the redesign of the elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Program Design, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Longenecker, Herbert E., Jr.; Babb, Jeffry; Waguespack, Leslie J.; Janicki, Thomas N.; Feinstein, David – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
The evolution of computing education spans a spectrum from "computer science" ("CS") grounded in the theory of computing, to "information systems" ("IS"), grounded in the organizational application of data processing. This paper reports on a project focusing on a particular slice of that spectrum commonly…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Information Systems, Undergraduate Study, College Programs
Aasheim, Cheryl L.; Williams, Susan; Rutner, Paige; Gardiner, Adrian – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
The rate at which data is produced and accumulated today is greater than at any point in history with little prospect of slowing. As organizations attempt to collect and analyze this data, there is a tremendous unmet demand for appropriately skilled knowledge workers. In response, universities are developing degree programs in data science and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Course Descriptions, College Programs, Data Analysis
