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Download full textCreaner, Gerard; Creaner, Sinead; Creaner, Colm – Open Praxis, 2021
This paper examines the practical experience and research background of one private training provider with over 10 years' experience reskilling and upskilling mid-career workers with academic qualifications for employment in a growing technical and highly regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. This paper offers insights into how to…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skill Development, Job Training, Manufacturing Industry
Direct linkOreopoulos, Philip; Ford, Reuben – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
Recent research suggests that the college application process itself prevents access. This paper reports results from a school-based experiment in which application assistance is incorporated into the high school curriculum for all graduating seniors at low-transition schools. Over three workshops, students were guided to pick programs of interest…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Barriers, High School Seniors, Workshops
Afterschool Alliance, 2021
While data for the 2020 edition of America After 3PM were collected pre-pandemic, to accompany the data and determine how the pandemic has affected families' needs during the hours after school, the Afterschool Alliance commissioned a nationally representative follow-up survey of parents in October 2020. The follow-up survey found that afterschool…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, After School Programs, Family Needs, COVID-19
Doolen, Toni L.; Biddlecombe, Erin – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This study investigated the effect of cohort participation in a learning community and collaborative learning techniques on the success of first-year engineering students. Student success was measured as gains in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, student engagement, and persistence in engineering. The study group was comprised of students…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Cooperative Learning
Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation Policy
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Rodriguez, Olga – Education Finance and Policy, 2015
Half of all college students will enroll in remedial coursework but evidence of its effectiveness is mixed. Using a regression-discontinuity design with data from a large urban community college system, we make three contributions. First, we articulate three alternative hypotheses regarding the potential impacts of remediation. Second, in addition…
Descriptors: College Programs, Remedial Programs, Educational Policy, Evidence
Oswald, Kim Johnson – Online Submission, 2002
This report summarizes the 2000-2001 program evaluation results of AISD's AVID program, a program designed to help underachieving students with academic potential prepare for entrance into colleges and universities.
Descriptors: College Readiness, Underachievement, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
Bennett, Barbara K.; And Others – 1993
The Youth Work Skills (YWS) program was developed to help economically disadvantaged, out-of-school, high school-aged youth with reading abilities at or below the fifth-grade level become job ready. In 1992-93, YWS served 236 participants at 7 sites throughout New York (two sites each in Brooklyn and Buffalo and sites in the Bronx, Rochester, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Annual Reports, Comparative Analysis
Hershey, Alan M.; Silverberg, Marsha K.; Haimson, Joshua; Hudis, Paula; Jackson, Russell – 1999
A comprehensive evaluation of state and local progress in implementing school-to-work (STW) programs focused on the following: whether states and local partnerships have created coherent STW systems of connected, sustainable practices and programs; how STW systems have changed students' experiences at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Stone, James R., III – 2002
In 2000 and 2001, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education conducted a series of projects on career and technical education (CTE) practices, trends and outcomes. Selected preliminary findings from a review of the reports on those projects are as follows: (1) integration of CTE and academic instruction in high schools remains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Articulation (Education)
