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Direct linkDe Dijn, Melina; Jacobs, Catho; Zenner, Eline; Ihalainen, Laura; Palander-Collin, Minna; Peterson, Elizabeth; Arens, Sanne; De Baar, Mirjam; Touwen, Jeroen; Heyvaert, Liesbet – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2023
OECD reports a mismatch between field of study and job content for Humanities students, while at the same time signalling labour market shortages for skills that seem clearly linked with the Humanities, e.g. delivering information. In order to investigate which skills Humanities students associate with their university studies, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Potential, Student Attitudes, Humanities
Boere, Nienke A.; de Jong, Bastian; Jansen in de Wal, Joost; Cornelissen, Frank – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: Transfer motivation has been identified as a pivotal factor influencing transfer of training. However, the role of training content has often been overlooked as explanatory variable for the rate of transfer motivation. This study aims to examine to what extent experiences in transfer motivation and its personal and contextual antecedents…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Soft Skills, Motivation, Job Training
van Laar, Ester; van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; van Dijk, Jan A.G.M. – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The creative industry is a sector where digitisation inevitably changes work practices and the skill requirements are high. The rapid digitisation makes it imperative for workers to acquire digital skills beyond mere technical use. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to offer a deeper analysis of the nature and level of 21st-century digital…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Skill Development, Technological Literacy
Niels van der Baan; Simon Beausaert; Wim Gijselaers; Inken Gast – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: Employers increasingly require students to possess competences that go beyond theoretical knowledge and academic expertise, such as lifelong learning skills. To equip students with these competences, higher education institutes have introduced coaching as part of their teaching programs. The present study qualitatively evaluates a career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Masters Degrees, Employment Potential
Wendy Nuis; Niels Andreas van der Baan; Simon Beausaert – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Given the dynamic and fast-evolving labour market, developing students' employability competences has become of utmost importance for higher education institutions. The ability to reflect is essential to develop these competences, as it helps students to identify their learning needs and make plans for further development. However,…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Students, Reflection, Skill Development
Jennifer E. Schijf; Greetje P. C. van der Werf; Ellen P. W. A. Jansen – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
The growing number of interdisciplinary degree programmes offered at comprehensive research universities aim to ensure that students gain interdisciplinary understanding, defined as knowledge and skills that provide them with the means to produce cognitive enhancements that would not be possible through monodisciplinary programmes. Previous…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Universities, Foreign Countries
Download full textTommasi, Francesco; Ceschi, Andrea; Bollarino, Sara; Belotto, Silvia; Genero, Silvia; Sartori, Riccardo – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Context: In the last few decades, the constant and exponential changes in the society's consumption of information have increased the awareness of practitioners from the education and training field, on the need for training programs for the enhancement of critical thinking skills and media literacy among students from Initial Vocational Education…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Media Literacy
Nugteren, Michelle L.; Jarodzka, Halszka; Kester, Liesbeth; Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Secondary school students often learn new cognitive skills by practicing with tasks that vary in difficulty, amount of support and/or content. Occasionally, they have to select these tasks themselves. Studies on task-selection guidance investigated either procedural guidance (specific rules for selecting tasks) or strategic guidance (general rules…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Guidance, Task Analysis
Krause, Uwe; Béneker, Tine; van Tartwijk, Jan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2022
Tasks are essential in fostering students' learning processes, and thinking skills are considered to be of central importance to learning. In order to analyse how tasks promote the development of thinking skills in school geography, we need an instrument that looks beyond a simple distinction between lower and higher order thinking. It should be…
Descriptors: Geography, Textbooks, Class Activities, Thinking Skills
León, Jaime; Álvarez-Álvarez, Carmen; Martínez-Abad, Fernando – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
A central objective of schooling processes at the international level is reading skills development. Unfortunately, many students in the European Union underperform at this, and these low performances can be more pronounced in countries with lower Human Development Index (HDI) values. This study analysed the contextual effect of school…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Reading Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Reading Skills
Wallace, Sarah J.; Worrall, Linda; Rose, Tanya A.; Alyahya, Reem S. W.; Babbitt, Edna; Beeke, Suzanne; de Beer, Carola; Bose, Arpita; Bowen, Audrey; Brady, Marian C.; Breitenstein, Caterina; Bruehl, Stefanie; Bryant, Lucy; Cheng, Bonnie B. Y.; Cherney, Leora R.; Conroy, Paul; Copland, David A.; Croteau, Claire; Cruice, Madeline; Dipper, Lucy; Hilari, Katerina; Howe, Tami; Kelly, Helen; Kiran, Swathi; Laska, Ann-Charlotte; Marshall, Jane; Murray, Laura L.; Patterson, Janet; Pearl, Gill; Quinting, Jana; Rochon, Elizabeth; Rose, Miranda L.; Rubi-Fessen, Ilona; Sage, Karen; Simmons-Mackie, Nina; Visch-Brink, Evy; Volkmer, Anna; Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne; Le Dorze, Guylaine – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Evidence-based recommendations for a core outcome set (COS; minimum set of outcomes) for aphasia treatment research have been developed (the Research Outcome Measurement in Aphasia--ROMA, COS). Five recommended core outcome constructs: communication, language, quality of life, emotional well-being and patient-reported…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Aphasia, Foreign Countries
Mombarg, R.; de Bruijn, A. G. M.; Smits, I. A. M.; Hemker, B. T.; Hartman, E.; Bosker, R. J.; Timmermans, A. C. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS) are important building blocks for children's sport-participation and lifelong physical activity. In the last decade, several international studies have reported delays in the development of FMS. To get better insight into the Dutch situation and to provide future directions, this study examined the…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Elementary School Students, Skill Development, Preadolescents
Scandurra, Rosario; Alberio, Marco – SAGE Open, 2021
This article explores cross-country patterns in how conditions relating to family background, education, and the labor market are related to literacy and numeracy skills. It seeks to assess whether these patterns are in agreement with models of skills formation as identified in the political economy literature. The novelty of this article resides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Skills, Family Characteristics
Abid el Majidi; Rick de Graaff; Daniel Janssen – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Many secondary school students' second language (L2) speaking skills suffer from deficiencies; the effects thereof are detrimental to their academic and career opportunities in a globalized world that highlights the importance of oral communication skills. Debate has been considered a potentially effective speaking pedagogical tool that can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
M. C. Morsink; E. N. van Schaik; K. Bossers; D. A. Duijker; A. G. C. L. Speksnijder – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Abstract Targeted metagenomics is a rapidly expanding technology to analyze complex biological samples and genetic monitoring of environmental samples. In this research field, data analytical aspects play a crucial role. In order to teach targeted metagenomics data analysis, we developed a 4-week inquiry-driven modular course-based undergraduate…
Descriptors: Genetics, Microbiology, College Science, Science Process Skills
