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Taylor M. Reth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The gap between skilled workers needed and skilled workers available increased since the start of the fourth industrial revolution. Employees now need different knowledge, skills, and abilities to enter the workforce and stay current with new technologies than they did in the past. One way this knowledge gap and skilled worker shortage could be…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Technology Education, Training, Educational Needs
Cunningham, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This quantitative research study sought to determine the factors that distinguish those students who are classified as "major-changers" from those who are classified as "relatively stable" (never changing their initial major or changing only once or twice). Participants of this study were full-time undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Family Characteristics, Doctoral Dissertations
James E. Connell Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2005
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a well established tool for formative assessment. CBM has also been used for prediction of state test scores. However, validity coefficients between math-CBM and state tests have been moderate at best (Skiba, Magnusson, Martson, and Erickson, 1986; Martson, 1989; Putnam, 1989). The purpose of the present…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement