In 2024 the AIChE Education Division surveyed departments over how they prepared graduate student instructors (GSIs) and the roles these GSIs have. This survey was completed by 70 departments, reaching departments big and small; with and without graduate teaching requirements; and a wide range GSI training programs. This first-of-its-kind survey…

The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review emphasizes the importance of supporting the professional development of service members working in and supporting the nuclear field. Additionally, the Department of Defense (DOD) has recently shifted from a topics-based approach to an outcomes-based approach to monitor and assess student learning for key topics…

Learning to teach is challenging as preservice teachers apply a multitude of knowledge and skills in complex situations. Preservice and student teachers struggle to effectively use metacognition and lack the ability to address numerous motivational factors in their learning. We do not know how student teachers utilize these ideas while lesson…

Since 1967, the American Indian Law Center (AILC) has been conducting the Pre-Law Summer Institute (PLSI), a free eight-week-long program that prepares American Indian and Alaskan Native students from across the United States for the rigors of law school. Taught by nationally prominent law school faculty and leaders, PLSI focuses on the unique…

Youth leadership development is crucial for empowering young people to thrive and contribute to society. Research on 4-H has demonstrated significant leadership growth among program participants, with effects persisting into emerging adulthood. However, little is known about what specific experiences shape 4-H youth's motivation to lead. This…

Aim and background: Today, students are encouraged to develop spatial visualization ability to meet the challenges of digital technologies impacting their daily life and education when exposed more time to a virtual 3D environment. This study investigated the effect of cognitive flexibility levels on students' spatial visualization abilities and…

Background: Of many innovative laboratory approaches in the literature, POE (Predict-Explain-Observe) and PDEODE (Predict-DiscussExplain-Observe-Discuss-Explain) based laboratories approach have been frequently used to enhance laboratory studies during the last ten years. We contend that excluding the discussion phase before the observation stage…

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System educates approximately 86?% of police officer candidates for Minnesota through their law enforcement and criminal justice programs certified by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board. In the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Philando Castile at the hands of Minnesota police…

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to conduct a thorough investigation of the theories that support the phenomenon of gamification in training and development within organizational settings. Practical training and development plans are now crucial for improving employee performance, promoting continuous learning and preserving a competitive…

This study reports on a project that adopted a social constructivist approach and SMART goals to develop a successful peer-teaching mentoring program to support year ten students' leadership growth and peer-teaching skills and year six students' connectedness to their school and peers. Doran (1981) developed the SMART goals approach as a guided…

Violence against children is a pervasive, global problem. Child sexual abuse (CSA), a specific type of adverse childhood experience (ACE), affects children across all racial and socio-economic backgrounds. CSA is associated with the potential for serious and long-term outcomes. Thus, as part of a trauma-informed approach, schools necessitate…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between different organisational development programmes (360-degree feedback; Coaching; Job assignment; Employee assistance programmes; On-the-job training; Web-based career information; Continuous professional development; External education provision) and employees' career development. The…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to guide decision-makers in the learning and development space with effective and efficient training transfer tools and techniques to facilitate workplace implementation of skills and knowledge disseminated during training interventions. Design/methodology/approach: Insights were drawn using a quantitative…

During the 2016 session, the General Assembly and Governor established the New Economy Workforce Grant Program (WCG). This grant program, the first of its kind in the nation, provides a pay-for-performance model for funding noncredit workforce training that leads to a credential in a high-demand field. The program also includes requirements for…

We propose an innovative, effective, and data-agnostic method to train a deep-neural network model with an extremely small training dataset, called VELR (Voting-based Ensemble Learning with Rejection). In educational research and practice, providing valid labels for a sufficient amount of data to be used for supervised learning can be very costly…