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Pinto, Marta; Caramelo, João; Coimbra, Susana; Terrasêca, Manuela; Agrusti, Gabriella – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Europe has stressed the importance of lifelong learning as a way for its citizens to enrol and to engage fully in day-today demands of work and citizenship life events. Support is more urgent for those who are at risk of social and educational exclusion. This paper presents an overview on the goals of the European project LIBE "Supporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Low Achievement, Competence
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Calma, Angelito – Journal of International Education in Business, 2013
Purpose: Little attention is paid to understanding generic skills in business. Even less attention is paid to collecting evidence of students' development of these skills. This paper aims to fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach: Four generic skills in business undergraduate and graduate programs are examined--written communication; critical…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Development, Educational Change, Business Skills
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Takayama, Keita – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
In this paper, I develop a critique of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-based lifelong learning policy discourse with a particular focus on "key competencies" (KCs) and its equity implications for school curricular policies. First, I review the discussion of KCs in the writings by the OECD-affiliated…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, International Organizations, Educational Policy, Equal Education
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Chawner, Brenda; Oliver, Gillian – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013
A survey of New Zealand academic subject/reference librarians was conducted in mid-2011 to identify the most highly valued knowledge, skills and competencies of reference librarians working in libraries in the tertiary sector. The project was part of an international collaborative project involving 13 countries. The results from New Zealand show…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Reference Services, Librarians
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Ali, Jamal; Eam, Lim Hock; Ismail, Russayani; Rahim, Fauziah Abdul; Isa, Filzah Md; Ismail, Ismi Arif – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2014
Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of Finishing School programmes in enhancing the employability of graduates from institutions of higher learning. The perceptions of the graduates and employers towards the effectiveness of the programmes were analyzed. The effectiveness of Finishing School programmes evaluated through a graduate…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Students, Graduate Surveys, Employer Attitudes
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Bañeres, David; Clarisó, Robert; Jorba, Josep; Serra, Montse – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014
The synthesis of digital circuits is a basic skill in all the bachelor programmes around the ICT area of knowledge, such as Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering or Electrical Engineering. An important hindrance in the learning process of this skill is that the existing educational tools for the design of circuits do not allow the…
Descriptors: Electronics, Design, Program Validation, Electronic Learning
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Pulling, Andy R.; Allen, Ray – Physical Educator, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the completion of a peer-teaching course impacted pre-service teachers ability to perform, teach, and assess motor skills. Central Michigan University (CMU) implemented a required course for physical education teacher education majors in which enrollees were evaluated on how well they performed…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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King, Kenneth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Youth Opportunities, Skill Analysis, Definitions
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Fernández-Santander, Ana; García-García, María José; Sáez-Pizarro, Beatriz; Terrón-López, María José – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2012
Employers look for professionals able to work in a team, able to approach problems, with the capacity to analyze and resolve problems, under the constant renewal of knowledge and competencies. In this paper, a group of University teachers from different areas of knowledge presents an experience to introduce key employability skills in the higher…
Descriptors: Action Research, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development, Skill Analysis
Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Opfer, V. Darleen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
For students to learn 21st-century skills, we will have to teach them differently than we have in the past. The outdated, transmission model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge to students via lectures and textbooks, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world, yet it is not the most effective way to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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Ogunleye, James – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
The paper examines systems of validation of skills and experience as well as the main methods/tools currently used for validating skills and knowledge in lifelong learning. The paper uses mixed methods--a case study research and content analysis of European Union policy documents and frameworks--as a basis for this research. The selection of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Program Validation, Mixed Methods Research
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Hegeman, Jennifer; Waters, Gavin – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
Many developmental mathematics programs emphasize computational fluency with the assumption that this is a necessary contributor to student success in general studies mathematics. In an effort to determine which skills are most essential, scores on a computational fluency test were correlated with student success in general studies mathematics at…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Introductory Courses
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Wheeling, Barbara M.; Miller, Donald S.; Slocombe, Thomas E. – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
The purpose of this research was to document the extent to which Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited business schools have implemented strategies to improve students' ability to achieve program learning objectives. Assessment of academic programs is increasingly important at AACSB schools. Compliance with…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Improvement Programs, Academic Ability, Behavioral Objectives
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Iserbyt, Peter – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: This study is a part of a larger research project where the effect of instructional guidance in terms of role definition and role switching was investigated on students' learning of Basic Life Support (BLS) during a 20-minute reciprocal learning episode with task cards. BLS is a lifesaving skill consisting of nine sub skills to be…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Task Analysis, Daily Living Skills, Pretests Posttests
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Merga, Margaret K. – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
Despite its growing popularity, the thesis by publication is a less conventional format for doctoral dissertations in the field of education. The author successfully undertook a thesis by publication in education from 2012, to submission in 2014. This paper draws on both the literature in the field and the experiences of the author through an…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Ethnography, Doctoral Dissertations
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