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Carden, Lila Lenoria. "Pathways to success for moderately defined careers: a study of relationships among prestige/autonomy, job satisfaction, career commitment, career path, training and learning, and performance as perceived by project managers." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5817.
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New emerging career paths for professionals are often non-linear, dynamic, and
boundary-less (Baruch, 2004) and have resulted in undefined professional advancement
opportunities for managers and employees in a variety of contexts. Career paths help
individuals make meaning in their job contexts and provide avenues to meet intrinsic and
extrinsic rewards, including economic and social status (Adamson, 1997; Callanan,
2003). As a result, individual perceptions of career paths may impact job satisfaction,
career commitment, and performance.
The purpose of this study was to test a career development model examining the
path of relationships amongst autonomy/prestige, career path, training and learning, job
satisfaction, career commitment, and performance for moderately defined career
professionals. Based on a systematic categorization of careers, from well defined to less
well defined, project managers were determined to have moderately defined careers. The
researcher employed a survey resulting in 644 project manager respondents. Path analysis was effectuated as a modeling technique to determine whether there was a
pattern of intercorrelations among variables.
A career development model framing the relationship between project managersâÂÂ
perceptions of their career paths on their respective performance was explored. The
direct path relationships included: (a) frequency of participation in training and learning
activities was negatively related to performance, (b) career path was positively related to
performance, (c) autonomy/prestige was positively related to performance, and (d)
career commitment was negatively related to performance. The indirect path
relationships included (a) autonomy/prestige was mediated by career commitment and
performance; (b) the connection between career path and performance was mediated by
frequency of participation in training and learning (c) career path to performance, was
mediated by job satisfaction and career commitment, and (d) career path to performance
was mediated by job satisfaction, career commitment, and autonomy/prestige.
Study findings supported the tested model and contributed to increased
understanding regarding the importance of career paths to individual job satisfaction,
career commitment, and performance. Opportunities for new research and implications
for individuals and organizations are outlined.
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Williams, Christine M. "Gender in the Development of Career Related Learning Experiences." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1278702627.
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Sharp, Mary Anne Rainey. "Career development in academic family medicine: An experiential learning approach." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1055438296.
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Panagos, Rebecca J. Huffman. "Self-efficacy and the career development of adolescents with learning disabilities /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9737846.
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Domholt, Kimberly. "Internship Participation: Impacts on Career Outcomes and Starting Salaries." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29006.
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Internships are a great way for college students to gain real-world work experience. Students who participate in an internship should learn valuable skills, build a network and gain professional confidence. Employers want to see prior, relevant work experience when deciding who to hire and an internship can provide that. This quantitative research study examined the impacts on career outcomes and starting salaries for college graduates who participated in a paid internship, unpaid internship or no internship and in a structured internship program for which they receive college credit, a non-credit internship and no internship. The results clearly showed that students who completed any type of internship were employed at a higher rate than those who did not complete an internship. There was also a substantial impact on higher starting salaries for those who completed a paid internship.
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Medvide, Mary Beth. "Hope in the Lives of Low Income Students of Color: A Qualitative Study of Experiences in a Work-Based Learning Program." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103553.
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Thesis advisor: Maureen E. KennyHope theory (Snyder et al., 1991) is a cognitive framework for understanding how individuals plan and stay motivated to achieve their goals. Research suggests that high levels of hope among adolescents are associated with academic achievement and markers of career exploration (Day, Hanson, Maltby, Proctor, & Wood, 2010; Kenny, Walsh-Blair, Blustein, Bempechat, & Seltzer, 2010). However, some scholars have raised criticisms about the conceptual underpinnings of hope and its applicability to the lives of marginalized groups (Tong, Fredrickson, Weining, & Zi, 2010; Riele, 2010). Despite these criticisms, hope theory has been used to study academic achievement among students of color (Chang & Banks, 2007; Roesch, Duangado, Vaughn, Aldridge, and Vilodas, 2010). Existing studies have most often utilized quantitative frameworks that have provided limited insight into how hope is experienced in the daily lives of low income students of color and how it may embody their relational, social, and cultural contexts. A qualitative framework is well suited for addressing these shortcomings. The current study employed a phenomenological methodology to explore how low income students of color defined hope and experienced it in their daily lives. Twenty one students enrolled in a work-based learning program at an urban Catholic high school were interviewed individually and participated in a group written activity on hope in their communities. The results of the study showed that goal pursuit was embedded within a relational context where participants embodied the opportunities and barriers experienced in their families, schools, and communities. The participants defined hope in ways that surpassed existing theory and elucidated the dynamic and sometimes contradictory role of the social context. These findings provide avenues for intervention in the lives of marginalized youth that frame discussions of WBL programs within a larger social context where relational processes are vital for student success
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Johnson, Helena Claire. "Continuing professional development for physiotherapists : exploring their choices in career long learning." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2194/.
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Purpose. The purpose of the thesis is to add to the body of knowledge of continuing professional development (CPD) for physiotherapists, by exploring the views of physiotherapists employed in NHS sites within one Strategic Health Authority. Relevance. Increasingly physiotherapists are under pressure to demonstrate engagement in CPD in order to demonstrate their competence, with a statutory requirement (HPC, 2003) that requires practitioners to show evidence of having undertaken CPD and to have applied this to their practice. Research Methods. The study used an interpretive approach and a sequential multi-method exploratory design involving 2 phases of data collection. Participants: Phase 1: 357 NHS physiotherapists; phase 2: 22 respondents from the survey. Data Collection Tools: Phase 1 used a four-page self-completion postal questionnaire. Phase 2 used semi-structured individual interviews. Analysis: The survey data from 140 completed questionnaires were analysed using SPSS. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used as a data reduction technique. The interview transcripts were analysed using NVivo 7.Findings. 32 different CPD activities were identified. PCA revealed 3 components as reasons for engaging in CPD activities, and 4 components as barriers to CPD. Internal consistency using Cronbach's Alpha was acceptable to good (.653 to .891). A Friedman ranks test found that the rank order of these components was consistent across all subgroups and the significance was p<0.05.Discussion. The findings suggest that there should be a greater focus on the contribution that work-based and self-directed learning activities can have on the CPD of physiotherapists in the NHS, at a time when finding in CPD is limited, as informal learning in the workplace is not always acknowledged within current policies. Measuring the impact of CPD remains a challenge, as personal benefit and benefit to the service cannot be easily separated. Conclusion. The findings indicate that the participants' decisions to engage in CPD were influenced more strongly by values related to improving clinical skills and patient care, than by the prospect of extrinsic rewards such as increase in pay and promotion. An increased understanding of the differences in CPD requirements of physiotherapists, at different stages in their careers, and practising in different clinical specialities, should enable appropriate CPD activities to be developed to ensure that they are appropriately supported in these roles.
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Pelletier, Christina L. "The Learning Communities of Exemplary Mid-Career Elementary General Music Teachers." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365004386.
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Graff, Jens. "Career as an experiential learning voyage : Development of experiential assessment methodology in a lifelong learning context." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Handelshögskolan, Umeå universitet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1928.
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Barbeite, Francisco. "Importance of learning and development opportunity to job choice decisions." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28567.
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Corderman, Julie. "LEARNING-CENTERED PROFESSIONAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT: EXAMINING INSTITUTIONAL AND LEARNER RESPONSIBILITIES." Doctoral diss., Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002021.
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Orchard, Patricia. "An examination of learner-centered professional development for reluctant teachers." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4835.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 28, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lokhtina, Irina. "The impact of workplace learning on academic career path development in tertiary education." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37466.
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This research addresses the situated learning experiences of academics in workplaces by gaining insights into how communities of practice influence career development of academics in Cypriot public universities. The study set out to explore academics’ lived experiences of community relations by taking into consideration the impact of power inequalities, access to resources, and their legitimate peripheral participation through the lens of Situated Learning Theory (Lave and Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998). To understand how academics develop their careers in Cypriot public universities, it was important to comprehend how they adapt to their disciplinary communities, engage with their peers, and perceive the existing support for learning and its outcomes. The research was informed by an interpretive paradigm. A single case study approach was used to bring to the fore academics’ narratives about their participatory practices. The data were generated through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with twenty academics chosen through a combination of convenience and snowball sampling strategies. The research has been conducted during five and a half months (December 2012-May 2013). Academics’ experiences in CoPs were thematically analysed. The findings revealed that academics’ career development cannot be properly understood without looking into social relations among scholars and the contextual factors within and across their CoPs. Even though this study challenged Lave and Wenger’s (1991) and Wenger’s (1998) theorisation, the research findings confirm the significance they placed on the mutual engagement of participants in practice, since task mastery on its own cannot be perceived as a prerequisite for academics’ full membership in CoPs. That is why the recommendations highlight the importance of an ongoing involvement of newcomers, who may face diverse forms of participation at the boundaries of CoPs, within the academic life of departmental communities. This is how they construct their academic identities and further develop their membership of the disciplinary CoPs.
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Chinyamurindi, Willi Tafadzwa. "Using narratives and storytelling in career development : a South African distance learning perspective." Thesis, Open University, 2012. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54683/.
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This research investigated how a career is conceptualised amongst a sample of previously disadvantaged South African distance learners. The research argued and used a narrative and story-telling approach in understanding career development. This method is used given the need to generate knowledge specific to the local context and using this knowledge to inform a wider audience. Although other methods (mostly quantitative) have aided the process of knowledge generation within the careers literature, their limitations are noted in this thesis as well. Participant narratives revealed three main findings. First, individuals interviewed in this research narrated a life of struggle and challenge as not only affecting their personal lives but also their framing of the nature of a career. Second, stumbling blocks acting as constraints not just to the lived experience but towards career development are presented in this thesis. Third, the way individuals work around these stumbling blocks through a process referred to as enacted negotiation is presented. This process, though driven by the individual, mediates between the individual and their situation. The process emphasises how individuals take action as a result of their situation in aiding their career development. A Career Development/Context/Constraints Framework (CDaCCF) based on the findings from this research is proposed. This research illustrated the use of a narrative inquiry in understanding career development amongst a sample of previously disadvantaged individuals in South Africa. The implications of this are explored.
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Yecan, Esra. "Investigation Of Early-career Faculty Members." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615168/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this study was to explore early-career faculty&rsquos needs on teaching related issues and examine the effectiveness of an online environment that was designed as a support to a graduate course on teaching in higher education. The study was carried out through two phases including a needs analysis and evaluation of the online environment. Findings of the needs analysis were used as input data in designing the online environment. An exploratory mixed design was employed to investigate graduate assistants&rsquo
perceptions about the effectiveness of the online environment in general, and the components specifically. Results of the first phase revealed that early-career faculty (n=53) were highly willing to participate in faculty instructional development activities, mostly through workshops and internet-based systems. Having students&rsquo
active participation into class was found to be one of the biggest concerns of new faculty. The second phase of the study provided descriptive data related to graduate assistants&rsquo
(n=10) use of an online environment incorporating a discussion forum, exemplary V teaching case and informative videos. Interaction with people from different academic fields helped the graduate assistants to experience and gain different perspectives about teaching. The graduate course itself raised graduate assistants&rsquo
awareness with regard to the teaching aspect of their profession. Online components generally provided the graduate assistants with different perspectives on teaching, and contemplate their future teaching. Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that online technologies have a potential to support faculty instructional development through incorporating visual media and communication tools.
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Crause, Ewald. "The effect of using a computer-based exploration tool on children's career development learning." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015020.
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Historically the process of career development was thought of as occurring in adolescence and adulthood; however, the renewed emphasis on lifelong career development has led to a greater focus on the career developmental stage of childhood. The present research focused on the development and trialling of a research-based computerised career exploration tool, Growing-up: Children Building Careers™ (GCBC™) that can be used for early intervention in children‘s career development. The integration of developmental considerations within a career developmental context is of paramount importance, considering that child and career developmental theories share certain basic foundational principles such as the dual recognition of identifiable life stages and the resolution or accomplishment of associated tasks. The focus of the research is to provide access to a research-based tool that can assist learners with developing age appropriate career developmental skills. As the overview of education policy and existing programs will show, there are challenges in providing access to and improving the nature, level, and quality of career development services. Gaps in access to career development learning are particularly evident at the elementary education level. Furthermore it is clear that learners need to be at the centre of a radical rethink of careers services within a lifelong learning framework in order to ensure access to navigational tools throughout a lifetime of work and study transitions. Digital environments, such as the GCBC™, are tools that broaden and extend learning possibilities for children and appropriately designed digital environments can provide a vehicle that can take children further than they might travel unassisted. The research is divided into five phases and includes eight to ten year old children as participants. Phase one focused on the program design and pilot study (ensuring content validity and age-appropriate language use), while phases two to five focused on the fieldwork (i.e., pre –test, program exposure, post-test, and focus group discussions). The researcher made use of a mixed research design that combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The total sample consisted of 146 children between the ages of eight to ten years old. The control group had 72 children and the experimental group 74 children with a mean age of 8.74 years (SD = 0.63) for the total sample. The quantitative data collection entailed a pre-and post-test design with learners‘ career development measured with the Childhood Career Development Scale (CCDS) and their career awareness with the Revised Career Awareness Survey (RCAS). Qualitative data was collected in the form of two focus group discussions, which included a small sample of children from the experimental group, as well as insights gained from educators following the GCBC™ fieldwork. The quantitative statistical analysis included descriptive and inferential statistics which allowed the researcher to not only describe the research findings, but to confirm the effectiveness of the GCBC™ as an intentional career development learning program. Furthermore, the responses of the children and educators who participated in or witnessed the facilitation of the GCBC™ provided support for the GCBC™ as a meaningful career learning experience which can be successfully implemented in educational settings.
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Piguave, Pérez Vicenta Rocío. "Importance of creativity development for Commercial Engineering career students from the teaching-learning process." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116853.
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The objective of this work is to place the importance of creativity development for students into university contexts, therefore a diagnosis of the issue is presented in the students who aspire to reach higher levels of personal development and emotional health in social environments increasingly complex and competitive, to the demands of the entrepreneurial sector towards professionals in order to solve in an original and independent way, the decision-making processes, products and innovative services generation that solve problems on the field as a way to improvetheir quality of life. This study was conducted with students from «Universidad Laica Eloy Alfarode Manabí» in the career of Commercial Engineering, through a survey and additionally interviews were conducted to professors to supplement the information gathered by the survey. The synthesis of the results and recommendations are presented for routing teaching tasks placing the professor as the main promoter ofcreativity from the learning process.El objetivo del trabajo es situar la importancia del desarrollo de la creatividad paralos alumnos en contextos universitarios, por lo que se presenta un diagnóstico del tema en los estudiantes que aspiran alcanzar niveles superiores de desarrollo personal y de bienestar emocional en entornos sociales cada vez más complejos y competitivos, ante las exigencias del sector empresarial a los profesionales para solucionar de una manera original e independiente los procesos de toma de decisiones, generación de productos y servicios innovadores que les permitan resolver los problemas del medio, como una forma de elevar su calidad de vida. Este estudio se realizó con estudiantes de la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí en la carrera de Ingeniería Comercial a través de una encuesta, y adicionalmente se realizó entrevistas a docentes para complementar la información recogida por la encuesta. Se presenta la síntesis de los resultados así como recomendaciones para encaminar tareas docentes, situándolo como el principal promotor de la creatividad desde el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje.
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Weltner-Brunton, Susan Lynn. "Perceived self-competence and career development of adolescent boys with and without learning disabilities /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487676261010632.
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Fittock, Simon. "The socialisation of early career principals in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2309.
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This research aimed to investigate and understand the socialisation of early career principals in Western Australian public schools. It is widely acknowledged that school principals are critical in the successful education of students and delivering on this is seen to be the core purpose of the role. It is evident that the development of effective principals has great value. As a result, the socialisation of principals during the formative early career stage, whereby they learn the necessary knowledge, skills and understandings of the role, is important in the educational experiences of students. Due to the impact principals have on student learning, research into the socialisation of early career principals holds significance.
The Department of Education (DoE) is the largest employer of school principals in Western Australia. DoE see effective leadership as a key priority and is committed to the development of effective principals through the provision of professional learning. In the past, research (including Clarke et al., 2011; Gurr et al., 2014; Wildy & Clarke, 2008a, 2008b) has reported that Western Australian early career principals have faced many complex challenges during their socialisation. Much of this research was conducted over 10 years ago and it is problematic that the topic of principal socialisation in Western Australia has received little attention since. My research sought to address this problem by providing a current insight and investigate the extent of which the findings from previous studies are still relevant. Furthermore, this research provided an opportunity to investigate whether DoE’s professional learning provision had addressed the challenges faced by early career principals as suggested by previous studies.
The participant cohort for this research was comprised of seven early career principals of Western Australian public schools. The participants were located in multiple regions across the state of both metropolitan and rural areas. This research used a qualitative methodology because it aimed to develop an understanding of the meanings that the participants attached to their experiences. To gain this understanding, individual semi-structured interviews were used as the data collection method.
Findings from the data suggest that during the initial stages of their career, the participants felt unprepared, unqualified and isolated. Unpreparedness came from a lack of understanding of what the principalship would entail and inexperience in school management tasks. The feeling of being unqualified emerged from an increase of focus in the area of school management in comparison to other roles the participants had held prior to becoming a principal. Feelings of isolation were evident as a result of being an outsider to the school community and, for the rural participants, the geographical location. The significance of this study can be seen in the alignment between its findings and with those of previous studies. The findings also have provided a current insight into the challenges faced by early career principals and the type of support they perceive to be most beneficial. This information could be seen to be valuable to DoE and their ongoing provision of professional learning to early career principals.
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Gosselin, Donna Gosselin. "Faculty Self-Efficacy Instructing in a Hybrid Learning Environment at a Career College." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3773.
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Since the inception of the hybrid instruction model at a career college in the western United States, there has not been an exploration of faculty members' understanding of hybrid instruction. Therefore, campus administrators do not have a clear understanding of the faculty perception of teaching in a hybrid learning environment. Using Bandura's social cognitive theory, this qualitative narrative inquiry study was conducted to explore faculty self-efficacy instructing in a hybrid learning environment at the career college. A purposeful sampling method was used to select 9 faculty who have taught less than 2 hybrid learning courses and attended the college professional development. In-depth semiformal interviews captured the data for this narrative inquiry. Data analysis was rooted in a 6-part Labovian model that captured the full story of the participants. Thematic analysis of data followed an inductive and interpretive approach to identify categories and 4 themes: discussion teaching, classroom environment, anchored by adult learning strategies, and self-reliance. The emerged themes provided the direction to increase faculty self-efficacy instructing in a hybrid learning environment. The resulting project was a 3-day professional development program with training in; discussion teaching; classroom environment; and adult learning strategies. The theme of self-reliance was the thread that linked all sessions of the professional development program together. This study may contribute to positive social change through the implementation of a professional development program leading to increased faculty self-efficacy instructing in a hybrid learning environment at a career college.
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Ekron, Christelle. "Learning to teach : communication skills in teacher education." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96988.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the development of the classroom communication behaviours of Foundation Phase student teachers over the course of a B Ed degree programme at a South African university. It challenges the premise of conventional wisdom that classroom communication behaviours will develop through regular exposure to situated learning experiences. Whilst acknowledging that learning to teach is a long and challenging process of which the precise nature is seldom clear-cut and distinct, this study claims to make a humble contribution to teacher education curriculum development. Classroom communication from the perspective of this study involves communication at two levels: firstly, interpersonal communication behaviours, which are influenced by nonverbal immediacy, communication apprehension, willingness to communicate and self-perceived communication skills; and secondly, instructional communication behaviours, more specifically clarity and immediacy behaviours. There seems to be a general perception that effective classroom communication will develop naturally by exposure to situated learning experiences, such as teaching practice sessions. Although the relative importance of these specific classroom communication behaviours for quality teaching and learning is acknowledged, whether and how these develop is seldom explicitly monitored. This was the intention of this study. It utilised a longitudinal mixed methods approach to follow Foundation Phase students over the four years of the degree programme in order to answer the following research question: To what extent do perceptions related to the classroom communication behaviours of Foundation Phase student teachers change over the course of a B Ed degree programme? The quantitative phase collected data using various self-report surveys in order to investigate possible changes in the self-perceptions of Foundation Phase student teachers regarding their communication behaviours over the four-year period. The purpose of the qualitative phase was to investigate possible changes in the perceptions of external evaluators regarding the instructional communication behaviours of student teachers over the degree programme. The qualitative data was obtained from the evaluation reports written by external evaluators on various aspects of the observed lessons. Although some changes occurred during the course of the B Ed degree programme, they were not as substantial as anticipated. From an interpersonal communication perspective, there was one particularly noticeable change: the self-perceived communication competence of the Foundation Phase student teachers improved between the first and second years of the programme, however, thereafter no further changes occurred. From an instructional communication perspective, more noticeable changes occurred: Foundation Phase student teachers improved in some aspects related to clarity, however other aspects still remained challenging. However, there was positive development related to immediacy: the fourth year Foundation Phase student teachers displayed higher levels of immediacy behaviours at the end of the four-year degree programme. Bearing in mind that neither interpersonal nor instructional communication theory was explicitly included in this particular B Ed degree programme; these findings are particularly noteworthy. This study advances the argument that if teacher education intends to address the quality of the teacher graduates entering the profession, classroom communication needs to be included in teacher education curricula.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die ontwikkeling van die klaskamer-kommunikasiegedrag van studentonderwysers in die Grondslagfase aan 'n Suid-Afrikaanse universiteit oor die verloop van 'n B Ed-graadprogram. Dit daag die konvensionele opvatting uit dat klaskamer-kommunikasiegedrag sal ontwikkel met gereelde blootstelling aan leerervarings in die praktyk. Alhoewel aanvaar word dat om te leer om te onderrig 'n lang en uitdagende proses is waarvan die presiese aard selde duidelik en onderskeibaar is, word daar met hierdie studie gepoog om 'n beskeie bydrae te lewer tot die ontwikkeling van onderwysersopleidingskurrikulums. Klaskamerkommunikasie behels vanuit die perspektief van hierdie studie twee vlakke: eerstens, interpersoonlike kommunikasiegedrag, wat beïnvloed word deur nie-verbale onmiddellikheid, kommunikasie-angstigheid, gewilligheid om te kommunikeer en self-persepsie van kommunikasievaardighede; en tweedens, onderrigkommunikasie-gedrag, meer spesifiek duidelikheid en onmiddellikheid. Die algemene persepsie bestaan dat doeltreffende klaskamerkommunikasie spontaan sal ontwikkel deur blootstelling aan praktiese ervaring in die klaskamer. Alhoewel die relatiewe belangrikheid van hierdie spesifieke klaskamer-kommunikasiegedrag algemeen erken word, word die ontwikkeling hiervan selde eksplesiet gemoniteer. Juis dít was die doel van hierdie studie. Longitudinale gemengde-metode navorsingsmetodologie is gebruik om Grondslagfase studente se kommunikasie-ontwikkeling oor die verloop van hul graadprogram te volg, met die doel om die volgende navorsingsvraag te beantwoord: Tot watter mate verander persepsies oor die klaskamer-kommunikasiegedrag van studentonderwysers in die Grondslagfase oor die verloop van die B Ed-graadprogram? Tydens die kwantitatiewe fase van die studie is data ingesamel deur die gebruik van 'n aantal self-rapporterende opnames ten einde moontlike veranderinge in die Grondslagfase studentonderwysers se selfpersepsie van hulle kommunikasiegedrag oor die tydperk van vier jaar te ondersoek. Die doel van die kwalitatiewe fase was om ondersoek in te stel na moontlike veranderinge in die persepsies van eksterne evalueerders wat betref die onderrig-kommunikasiegedrag van die studetonderwysers oor die verloop van die vier jaar van die kursus. Die kwalitatiewe data is verkry uit evalueringsverslae wat geskryf is deur eksterne evalueerders oor verskillende aspekte van die lesse wat geëvalueer is. Alhoewel daar sommige veranderinge plaasgevind het oor die verloop van die vier jaar van die B Ed-kursus, was hierdie veranderinge nie so substansieel as wat verwag is nie. Vanuit die oogpunt van interpersoonlike kommunikasie was daar slegs een merkbare verandering: die Grondslagfase-studente se selfpersepsie van hulle kommunikasievaardigheid het van die eerste na die tweede jaar verbeter, maar daarna het geen verdere veranderinge plaasgevind nie. Vanuit die oogpunt van onderrigkommunikasie het meer merkbare veranderinge egter plaasgevind: die Grondslagfase-studentonderwysers het verbeter ten opsigte van sommige aspekte wat betref duidelikheid, maar ander aspekte het steeds 'n uitdaging gebly. Daar was egter positiewe ontwikkeling wat betref onmiddellikheid: die Grondslagfase- studentonderwysers het in hulle vierde jaar hoër vlakke van onmiddellikheid getoon as aan die begin van hulle studies. Hierdie veranderings is veral opmerklik as is ag geneem word dat nie interpersoonlike kommunikasie of onderrigkommunkasie eksplesiet onderrig is in die spesifieke kursus nie. Hierdie studie voer aan dat as onderwysersopleiding 'n verskil wil maak aan die kwaliteit van onderwysgraduandi wat die beroep betree, moet onderrigkommunkasie ingesluit word by onderwysersopleiding-kurrikulums.
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Midock, Randall L. "Family correlates of career maturity attitudes in rural high school students with learning disabilities." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-163929/.
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Goldman, Madeline B. "The Role of Learning Experiences, Supports and Barriers in Career Development for the Doctoral Student." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5513.
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THE ROLE OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES, SUPPORTS AND BARRIERS FOR THE DOCTORAL STUDENT
By Madeline B. Goldman, DDS, MEd
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2018
Major Director: Robin Hurst, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning
This study seeks to understand the role of career development classes offered by the graduate school at a large public research university as part of its Leadership and Entrepreneurs for Professional Development (LEAPD) program and the LEAPD program effects on doctoral students’ career development and choices. The study also aims to understand the contextual influences on doctoral students, specifically the perceived supports and barriers that influence their career choices. The study’s goal in understanding these issues is to discover how the LEAPD courses impact these students as well as identify perceived supports and barriers in career development for doctoral students. The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) serves as a theoretical foundation for the study. This qualitative interview study involved students from different STEM programs at the doctoral level. Results of this study showed that the LEAPD program raised the career development confidence and inferred self-efficacy of these students. Furthermore, performance accomplishments were a significant factor in the persistence of these students to the doctoral level. Teachers and professors were most frequently reported as sources of support for these doctoral students, and the presence of supports seemed to minimize barrier perceptions.
Keywords: doctoral students, career development, learning experiences, SCCT, supports, barriers, performance accomplishments, vicarious learning, teacher support, STEM
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Paige, Ronald D. "The relationship between self-directed informal learning and the career development process of technology users." ScholarWorks, 2007. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/hodgkinson/13.
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Few new studies plus theoretical stagnation mark the inattention of educators to self-directed informal learning during career development in technology. Therefore this study explored the relationship between self-directed informal learning and the career development process among everyday technology users. Supporting questions addressed how self-directedness related categorically and holistically to informal learning during career development. This qualitative study used multiple narrative case studies to collect, analyze, and describe the results of life-story data recovered from 13 technology users purposefully selected using a sampling strategy grounded in the literature. Individual lifestory narratives surfaced tacitly held perceptions and social identities associated with career-related learning. The data were analyzed categorically and holistically leading to a rich description of common themes and patterns as well as triangulating content validity methodologically and thematically. Findings culminated in a conceptualization of self-directed informal learning as entrepreneurial in nature, which without appropriate strategic guidance can become either a negative or positive influence on career development. Such guidance was best expressed as self-reflection on structured play. With much learning thought to be self-directed, the study's implications for social change are economically and educationally important. Results suggest that corporate trainers must replace maintenance learning that is transportable to lower wage locations with innovative learning that encourages resourceful self-directed learning. Educators must make room for story-based self-reflection, the heart of self-directed learning. Recommendations for implementing entrepreneurial learning are provided.
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Miller, Faye Q. "Knowledge ecosystems of early career academics : a grounded theory of experiencing information use for learning in developmental networks." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/71395/2/Faye_Miller_Thesis.pdf.
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This study explored early career academics' experiences in using information to learn while building their networks for professional development. A 'knowledge ecosystem' model was developed consisting of informal learning interactions such as relating to information to create knowledge and engaging in mutually supportive relationships. Findings from this study present an alternative interpretation of information use for learning that is focused on processes manifesting as human interactions with informing entities revolving around the contexts of reciprocal human relationships.
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Garofano, Christina. "INITIAL TESTING OF THE CONTINUOUS EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT MODEL: OUTCOME EXPECTATIONS AND WORK-RELATED IMPLICIT THEORY." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3269.
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Understanding and promoting lifelong learning in employees is important for employees' future marketability (Robinson & Rousseau, 1994) and for creating learning organizations (Senge, 1990). To further this understanding, components of a model of the motivation to engage in continuous employee development (Garofano & Salas, 2005) were tested. New scales were created for work-related implicit theory and outcome expectations and the validity of these scales and these variables in the model were investigated. Alternate models were also contrasted with the Garofano and Salas model (2005). The study used self-report surveys administered to staff and faculty recruited from training classes in higher learning institutions in a three month longitudinal investigation. The results suggest that work-related implicit theory is a valid contributor in this model but that modifications to the model may be beneficial, including a more complex central motivational component. Implications of these results for organizational practice are discussed along with study limitations and future research implicationsPh.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology
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Caresio, Denise Ann Adler Susan A. "Teachers' perspectives of pedagogy in a learning community Critical Friends Group /." Diss., UMK access, 2005.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Education and Social Sciences Consortium. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005."A dissertation in education and social sciences consortium." Advisor: Susan A. Adler. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed May 31, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-195 ). Online version of the print edition.
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Afolabi, Comfort Y. Georgia State University. "Examining the Relationship Between Participation in Cross Career Learning Communities and Teacher Retention." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/103.
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As teacher turnover and the demands for accountability and student achievement persist, the need to hire and retain quality teachers becomes increasingly vital. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between participation in Cross Career Learning Communities (CCLC), a type of Professional Learning Community (PLC), and teacher retention in participating Network for Enhancing Teacher-Quality (NET-Q) schools in a southeastern state. One-to-one exact matching was used to match 251 teachers in CCLC groups to 251 control teachers on eight variables including both system and individual level variables. Results showed a ten percent significant difference between the retention percentages within the state public school systems favoring CCLC teachers, χ2(1) = 21.17, N = 502, p < .05, with a medium effect size of h = .4. For teachers participating in CCLCs, a secondary research question asked if there were any differences in teacher retention in schools that had mandatory participation versus those that had voluntary participation. No significant difference was found between participation types and teacher retention. Furthermore, no significant difference was found in the attrition rates between the novice and the veteran teachers participating in the CCLCs. Based on a question from the NET-Q survey, the percentage of teachers indicating that their participation in CCLCs positively influenced their decision to continue in teaching, estimated at 31%, was statistically significant. This study extends the research on one particular type of PLC to teacher retention. The findings of this study may aid school leaders in better understanding how they can address and impact teacher retention in teaching and in their school buildings. Suggestions for future research and implications for policies addressing teacher support and retention are discussed.
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Reynolds, Jimmie. "A study of the pattern of learning style characteristics for adult dependent decision-makers." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49930.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a pattern of preferred learning style characteristics for adult "Dependent" decision-makers. Then, use those identified characteristics and their associated instructional/learning strategies to suggest instructional interventions for "Dependent“ decision-makers.
One hundred and forty-four adult Community College students were used as subjects for this study. All subjects were enrolled in a career/life planning course, where measurement of their decision-making styles and learning style characteristics were obtained. Three instruments were used: (a) the Assessment of Career Decision Making (ACDM), (b) Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS), and, (c) Kolb's Learning-Style Inventory (LSI).
Each subject was identified as belonging to one of five decision-making style groups: (a) Rational, N=25; (b) Intuitive, N=30; (c) Dependent, N=31; (d) Combination, N-23; and, (e) Unclassified, N=35. The "Dependent" decision-making group had a mean age of 33.42 years and was predominantly white (87%). Even though this group had more females (61.3%), this group was less dominated by females than the total sample (74.3%).
Using the raw scores from each of the twenty learning-style characteristic elements of the PEPS, a one-way analysis of the variance (ANOVA) was used in analyzing the data for the five decision-making groups. A significance level of .05 was selected for the ANOVA. The same procedure was used to analyze the raw scores for the four learning modes of Kolb's LSI. The Fisher's LSD multiple comparison test was run on all PEPS and LSI elements that were identified by the ANOVA as showing a significant difference between groups.
The summary of the PEPS data analysis indicated that four of the PEPS elements (Sound, Motivation, Persistent, and Responsible) are significantly lower for the "Dependent" decision-making group. None of the four LSI learning modes were shown to be significantly higher or lower for the "Dependent" decision-making group.
The results of the study suggest that any model of instructional/learning strategies designed for "Dependent" decision-makers should take into account the four PEPS elements of (a) Sound, (b) Motivation, (c) Persistent, and (d) Responsible. Instructional/learning strategies used to assist "Dependent" decision-makers should stress motivational factors such as a supportive learning environment. Special emphasis should be placed on ways to help "Dependent" decision-makers become more persistent and responsible about their own learning.Ed. D.
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Johnson, Kawana W. "A Case Study Exploration of Internships in Undergraduate Business Education." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7311.
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A single case study was used to examine internships at an (AACSB) accredited business school located at a Research 1 university in the southeastern United States. Internships are the dominant form of experiential learning used within the college under study and the “preferred method of business schools worldwide to give students practical experience and help them transition to the real world” (Kosnik, Tingle, Blanton, 2013, p. 616). The Grant University College of Business, pseudonym selected for this case, supports an internship and career services office that oversees nine internship courses representing six departments within the college. At minimum, each department is responsible for outlining their individual internship guidelines and requirements. The staff within the internship & career services office are primarily responsible for enforcing those guidelines, administering course content, and working with employers to promote meaningful internship experiences. The dean, associate dean for undergraduate programs, six administrators, six employers, and five students participated in this study. After three months of interviews, a focus group, and document reviews, data were analyzed to determine participant perception of internships and also to gain insight into future recommendations. This study was significant because it sought to address a gap in the literature on internships in undergraduate business education and to provide additional evidence that internships contribute to success in career, curriculum, and relationship development as evidenced by the in-depth analysis of a single case.
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Tai, Chih-Che, and Karin Keith. "Preparing College/Career Readiness through Integrating Science Learning with Literacy in Secondary Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1030.
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Mooney, Marianne Jr. "Family Contributions to the Work Readiness of Youth with Learning Disabilities." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30623.
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The study identified the contributions families made to the work-readiness of youth with learning disabilities. A qualitative research approach, the in-depth telephone interview, was the primary information-gathering instrument. Two questions were posed to guide the study: 1.What communications or behaviors do families engage in within the contexts of the home, school, workplace, and community that contribute to the work readiness of youth with learning disabilities? 2. What value do these families place on their roles in the development of their youngster's work readiness?
Families from the Commonwealth of Virginia were nominated by parent resource center directors as meeting the criteria established for the study. A total of 27 individuals were "purposefully selected" to be interviewed. The participants were family members of employed youth, age 16 to 22, with documented learning disabilities.
Telephone interviews were taped, transcribed, coded, and analyzed using Ethnograph and a three-step coding process. A description of major themes and subthemes which emerged from the analysis was presented in narrative and table form. Participant statements were used to illustrate the themes.
Participants identified 29 critical work-readiness skills they perceived youth would need for workplace success. These work-readiness skills supported six themes: human relations, work ethic, compoliance, personal qualities, education and training, and independence.
Participants identified the various activities, behaviors, and conversations they engaged in to promote work-readiness in their children within four setting: the homes, school, workplace, and community. These actions were analyzed within and among the four settings, and in relation to the themes established. The themes of education and training and independence were the most prevalent.
The family's responsibilities for and abilities to develop work-readiness skills were examined, and the types of assistance they had accessed or believed other families could benefit from were identified. Stakeholder groups and their roles and responsibilities in the collaborative effort to develop work skills were identified. Stakeholder roles included provider, teacher, facilitator, nurturer, communicator, and preparer.
Participants reflected on the process of preparing youth with learning disabilities for work, determined what they would do differently, and offered advise on work-readiness skill development to other families of children with learning disabilities.Ph. D.
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Tai, Chih-Che, Karin Keith, and Laura Robertson. "Preparing College/Career Readiness Through Integrating Science Learning with Literacy in Grades 6-12." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1021.
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With the increasing globalization, and the increasing need for a scientifically literate population, it is essential that secondary school (Grades 6-12) students not only receive meaningful science and literacy instruction, but also see the seamless nature of how each informs the other. A LEA-IHE-Business partnership initiative was interested in two research perspectives: How does cross-discipline instruction benefit and enrich each subject discipline? How does integration of science learning with literacy in G6-12 impact college/career readiness? This opportunity provides a chance for 120 Grade 6-12 Science and ELA teachers from ten school districts to join with ELA and Science faculty and STEM professionals to form a strong professional learning community focused on the integration of Science-ELA. The purposes of this presentation are: 1.) to describe the project that paired secondary school science and ELA teachers for the purposes of developing integrated lessons; and 2.) to report preliminary findings about this project.
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Mark, Sheron. "An Examination of the Processes of Student Science Identity Negotiation within an Informal Learning Community." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:101446.
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Thesis advisor: Michael BarnettScientific proficiency is important, not only for a solid, interdisciplinary educational foundation, but also for entry into and mobility within today's increasingly technological and globalized workplace, as well as for informed, democratic participation in society (National Academies Press, 2007b). Within the United States, low-income, ethnic minority students are disproportionately underperforming and underrepresented in science, as well as mathematics, engineering and other technology fields (Business-Higher Education Forum, 2011; National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2009). This is due, in part, to a lack of educational structures and strategies that can support low-income, ethnic minority students to become competent in science in equitable and empowering ways. In order to investigate such structures and strategies that may be beneficial for these students, a longitudinal, qualitative study was conducted. The 15 month study was an investigation of science identity negotiation informed by the theoretical perspectives of Brown's (2004) discursive science identities and Tan and Barton's (2008) identities-in-practice amongst ten high school students in an informal science program and employed an amalgam of research designs, including ethnography (Geertz, 1973), case study (Stake, 2000) and grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Findings indicated that the students made use of two strategies, discursive identity development and language use in science, in order to negotiate student science identities in satisfying ways within the limits of the TESJ practice. Additionally, 3 factors were identified as being supportive of successful student science identity negotiation in the informal practice, as well. These were (i) peer dynamics, (ii) significant social interactions, and (iii) student ownership in science. The students were also uncovered to be particularly open-minded to the field of STEM. Finally, with respect to STEM career development, specific behaviors were indicative of students' serious consideration of STEM careers and two major patterns in STEM career interests were uncovered. The findings are discussed in relation to existing research in science education, as are implications for future research and practice
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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Kember, Deborah Anne. "Shifting the technology context : career-change entrants’ transition into teaching." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40849/1/Deborah_Kember_Thesis.pdf.
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Becoming a teacher in technology-rich classrooms is a complex and challenging transition for career-change entrants. Those with generic or specialist Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expertise bring a mindset about purposeful uses of ICT that enrich student learning and school communities. The transition process from a non-education environment is both enhanced and constrained by shifting the technology context of generic or specialist ICT expertise, developed through a former career as well as general life experience. In developing an understanding of the complexity of classrooms and creating a learner centred way of working, perceptions about learners and learning evolve and shift. Shifts in thinking about how ICT expertise supports learners and enhances learning preceded shifts in perceptions about being a teacher, working with colleagues, and functioning in schools that have varying degrees of intensity and impact on evolving professional identities. Current teacher education and school induction programs are seen to be falling short of meeting the needs of career-change entrants and, as a flow on, the students they nurture. Research (see, for example, Tigchelaar, Brouwer, & Korthagen, 2008; Williams & Forgasz, 2009) highlights the value of generic and specialist expertise career-change teachers bring to the profession and draws attention to the challenges such expertise begets (Anthony & Ord, 2008; Priyadharshini & Robinson-Pant, 2003). As such, the study described in this thesis investigated perceptions of career-change entrants, who have generic (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) or specialist expertise, that is, ICT qualifications and work experience in the use of ICT. The career-change entrants‘ perceptions were sought as they shifted the technology context and transitioned into teaching in technology-rich classrooms. The research involved an interpretive analysis of qualitative data and quantitative data. The study used the explanatory case study (Yin, 1994) methodology enriched through grounded theory processes (Strauss & Corbin, 1998), to develop a theory about professional identity transition from the perceptions of the participants in the study. The study provided insights into the expertise and experiences of career change entrants, particularly in relation to how professional identities that include generic and specialist ICT knowledge and expertise were reconfigured while transitioning into the teaching profession. This thesis presents the Professional Identity Transition Theory that encapsulates perceptions about teaching in technology-rich classrooms amongst a selection of the increasing number of career-change entrants. The theory, grounded in the data, (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) proposes that career-change entrants experience transition phases of varying intensity that impact on professional identity, retention and development as a teacher. These phases are linked to a shift in perceptions rather than time as a teacher. Generic and specialist expertise in the use of ICT is a weight of the past and an asset that makes the transition process more challenging for career-change entrants. The study showed that career-change entrants used their experiences and perceptions to develop a way of working in a school community. Their way of working initially had an adaptive orientation focussed on immediate needs as their teaching practice developed. Following a shift of thinking, more generative ways of working focussed on the future emerged to enable continual enhancement and development of practice. Sustaining such learning is a personal, school and systemic challenge for the teaching profession.
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Ramlakhan, Nirmala. "A Comparative Investigation of Career Readiness and Decidedness in First Year STEM Majoring Students Participating in a STEM Mentoring Program Imbedded in a Living-Learning Community With Focused Data on Female STEM Students." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5447.
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Female mentoring success was investigated as an undergraduate intervention utilizing career development practices to reduce dysfunctional career thinking and STEM major retention in first year freshmen females within a living-learning community. Repeated measures MANOVAs and canonical correlations in the causal comparative research design evaluated mentoring's influence on first year females. Male voluntary participants (n = 126) formulated the comparison group, and female voluntary participants (n = 75) filled the treatment group. Repeated measure multivariate analyses of variances compared differences between the interaction of mentoring and gender over time on dysfunctional career thinking using two assessments: Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) and Career Decision Scale (CDS) and their five subscales (decision-making confusion, commitment anxiety, external conflict, certainty and indecision). Canonical correlations analyzed the effect participation rates had on student change scores on the CTI and CDS, indicating mentoring intervention effects on reducing dysfunctional career thinking and decidedness. Conclusions included: (a) females had higher levels of dysfunctional career thinking than males; (b) overtime both groups decreased dysfunctional thoughts,and solidifying their STEM career choices; (c) females had reduced levels of career decidedness compared to males; (d) both groups increased certainty overtime, solidifying their STEM career choice, and (e) when the STEM career choice was made, female certainty was more solidified than males. The study adds to the career development research within STEM at the undergraduate level providing colleges and universities with a structured first year female mentoring program in STEM. The GEMS model may be ideal for colleges and universities utilizing living-learning communities to increase underrepresented female retention and those without STEM career planning courses.?Ph.D.
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Education and Human Performance
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Petrunin, Kristin Firmery. "The Teaching of 21st Century Skills through Project-Based Learning and Professional Development for Career and Technical Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609129/.
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The purpose of this non-experimental, quantitative study is to investigate the relationship between the use of project-based learning (PBL) by secondary business teachers and time spent in professional development of secondary business teachers for the teaching of 21st century skills. The four identified 21st century skills that will be researched include: (1) critical thinking, (2) collaboration, (3) communication, (4) creativity and innovation. A sample of 316 secondary business teachers were surveyed about their classroom practice and reflection of teaching 21st century skills. This study used a modified version of the 21st Century Teaching and Learning Survey. Survey results were analyzed for relationships using correlational and regression analysis. Business teachers reported a statistically strong relationship between the use of PBL and the teaching of 21st century skills. A statistically significant relationship between time spent in professional development and the teaching of 21st century skills was not found. Regression results indicated that the use of PBL had an impact on the teaching of 21st century skills. This research guides teachers, school administrators, and CTE directors at the state and district level towards the creation of professional development and implementation strategies when applying PBL methods in career and technical education settings.
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Stromberg, Cara A. "Career aspirations : similarities and differences between adolescence with learning disabilities and adolescence not receiving special education services /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7542.
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Allen, Dianne. "Contributing to learning to change developing an action learning peer support group of professionals to investigate ways of improving their own professional practice /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050901.105532/index.html.
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Hendricks, Frederica M. "Career experiences of black women faculty at research I universities /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9717161.
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Mathew, Norman F. "The development and implementation of Web-based instruction to create a self-paced learning environment in career and technology studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq39614.pdf.
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Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela. "Social representations of career and career guidance in the changing world of working life." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Livslångt lärande/Encell, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26292.
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This thesis explores the meaning of career as a phenomenon and its implication for career guidance. In 1996, career as a phenomenon was more or less considered to be an obsolete or even extinct phenomenon. Since then, career guidance has received increased attention along with the increased interest in lifelong learning strategies. This thesis is motivated by the paradoxical message of career as an extinct yet living phenomenon. Career is outlined as a bridging issue that involves several contexts and is characterized by a number of dominating discourses in tension with one another. Two educational fields linked by career are of particular interest: the field of education and training in working life and the educational field of career guidance counselling. This thesis explores the meaning of career among a triad of various interested parties in this time of transition in the world of working life, and it explores the sense in which such understanding(s) of career influence policies and practices of career guidance. The thesis is based upon four separate studies. The first study explores, in order to disclose underlying views on career, how the language of European policy documents on career guidance characterize career and career development. Qualitative content analysis is used as the basic method to approach the subject in the texts, with an inductive development of categories. The analysis then conducts a sender-oriented interpretation, based upon a textual model for analyzing documents. The results revealed that underlying perspective on career in the documents derive from economic perspective, learning perspective and political science perspective, and communicate career as subordinated to market forces. The second study pays attention to the receiving side of the ideational message, disclosed in the first study. The second study extends the analysis of the first study with an exploration of ethical declaration documents for the profession. The exploration focuses on significant key principles, the profession's role and mission, and significant changes between the initial and the revised ethical declaration. Similarities and differences were compared, combined with the first study’s results as an interpretive frame for analyzing what consequences and significance the core meaning of career at structural level will have for career guidance practice. The results revealed an implicit shift of emphasis in the career guidance mission, which creates uncertainty regarding on behalf of whom the guidance counsellor is working. The third study explores common-sense knowledge of career, among a group of people influenced by changing conditions in working life. This study explores what social representations people have about career. The study also explores how people's anchored thoughts reflect scientifically shaped thoughts, and how they relate to thoughts currently dominating on structural level. Results disclose how the group explored has stable social representations of career that are anchored in the past, in previous working life conditions, and that contrasts with perspectives dominating in the structural context. The group also has dynamic representations, which provide space for negotiation of the meaning of career. The fourth study explores guidance counsellors' social representations of their mission and of careertherein. Results generated four social representations expressed in argumentative pairs of opposites. The first pair is concerned with their professional mission and reveal their professional identity. The second is concerned with career. Their view on their mission and their professional identity is in sharp contrast with how they experience others' interpretation of their mission, as being a matching practice on behalf of the business sector. Guidance counsellors reject the general view of career among others' and they regard career in the context of guidance as something other than the common view. At the same time guidance counsellors reveal difficulties in really clarifying the meaning they ascribe to career. The empirical findings of each of the four studies are finally interpreted as a whole in the final section of this thesis. With support from social representations theory, the empirical findings illuminate the sources as bearers of social representations of career, which both meet and clash.
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Paul, Leonie. "The flying Classroom : Study trips in Education for Sustainable Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412668.
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Higher education in any area of sustainable development is increasingly seen as aremedy to solve the currently faced climate crisis. However, the complex,interdisciplinary, and even personal nature of Education for Sustainable Development(ESD) questions the status quo of traditional pedagogic approaches and learningtechniques. Using the example of a study trip provider specialized in ESD, therelevance of experiential real-life studies in a foreign setting is investigated and theirpotential for Sustainability Education highlighted. An online questionnaire serves as afundament for understanding the impacts of multidimensional study trips regardingpersonal but especially professional choices. Data of more than 100 formerparticipants of sustainability-related study trips were gathered and evaluatedquantitatively as well as following a deductive analysis. Focus is drawn topro-environmental behaviors and beliefs that are potentially nourished by theexposure to natural treasures and first-hand expertise in Sustainable Development.The results of this study substantiate the great potential for knowledge transfer,behavioral changes, and shifts in mindsets based on experiential learning taking placein the context of traveling. Participants are encouraged and determined to follow acareer in sustainability after participating in the program. Half of the examined alumnigroup is already in a position that supports Sustainable Development in some form,leading to the overall success of the utilization of study trips in ESD, despite existingweaknesses.
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Nyanjom, Julia Akumu. "The principles and practices of mentoring for educators in a technical college in Africa a self-study enquiry /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09242009-225124/.
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Vickers, Wanda Jean. "Curriculum development for disadvantaged students enrolled in nursing courses in career and technical education programs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2671.
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lin, cheng, and 林逸青. "career development & learning need." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40336845521283505030.
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Yin, Ya-Yu, and 尹雅鈺. "The Development of Learning Career Exploration Inventory." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73157776110181676533.
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The purpose of this study was to combine the students’ interests to learning activities and multiple intelligences, in order to develop a Learning Career Exploration Inventory for high school students. Out of 616 questionnaires distributed, 543 were completed and used in this study. The effective rate was 92.0%. The major findings of this study are summarized as follow: (1) The instrument contained two sub-inventories, including the inventory of learning activities interests and the inventory of self-assessment multiple intelligences. There were 120 4-points scale items in these inventories. Results show that the reliability and validity of the inventory and all subscales is good. (2) The learning activities interests of students were significant different between students with different gender. The learning activities interests of students were not significant different between students with different highest education levels and vocational types of parents. (3) Some learning activities interests were relative higher with some intelligences than with other intelligences, which indicated that we must match the learning activities interests and their correspondent multiple intelligences to help student making their choice for further learning. Based on the findings of this study, some suggestions were provided at the discussion of the article for the reference of the inventory users and the future researchers.
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hsieh, chung wu, and 謝忠武. "career development job satisfaction & learning need." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24117557792006200543.
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WU, JUI-JHE, and 吳睿哲. "Influence of Ontological Security and Reflective Learning on Personal Career Development." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92f6gt.
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諮商心理與人力資源發展學系終身學習與人力資源發展研究所
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This research is trying to understand what factors infect on everyone’s ontological security and how ontological security infect everyone’s reflective learning, giving themselves special life-meaning, Also referencing to career development mode to understand what kinds of career mission in each Chi Wei Wang’s career development stage. And provide advice on the development of a person's career or the planning of a career development program. The results are summarized as follows: First, people use professional knowledge and skill, family, personal experience correct their self-identity consistently, and obtain the living-environment of trust. The dependence of important people and support can help individual turning a stumbling block into a stepping stone smoothly when they face the accident. Furthermore, when people find that their new method could solve problem, they will enhance strong confident and build a concrete self-identity. Also, more economic or social resource people can use, more efficient reduce the damage and stress produced by impact. It also give strength to people reflecting themselves and making difference. Second, reflexive learning can enhance one’s ontological security, on the contrary, ontological security also induce people process reflexive learning when they encounter impact. Third, of course, important other is people establishing their self-identity and ontological security strongly. However, it also could interfere self-identity and ontological security. It depends on people’s communicating and realizing. Finally, based on the above finding, this research is aimed to providing suggestion to who feel hesitate to career development, interested for career development and future related researcher.
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Wang, Shih-Ken, and 王士肯. "The Motivation, Learning Process, and Career Development of Education-Majored Students." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24228649325711060139.
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碩士東海大學
社會學系
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Since Taiwan’s higher education expanded in the last two decades, the teacher-training programs have been setting up widely and the graduates from education-related departments have no advantages anymore. In this paper, first of all, we try to figure out if the composition of the education-majored students has changed over time. Secondly, the reasons why make students choose education as their major, and then transfer to other majors will be explored. Thirdly, we will investigate the interactions among personal factors and governmental policies. The history of the education reform is reviewed. We collect the literature about the education institution and related law, according to the critical years, rearranged the important reform periods. As a result, the context is presented clearly. We adopt two kinds of research methods, quantitative statistical analysis and qualitative In-depth interview. The data we analyzed is surveyed by official institutions, the special character is nationwide and good representative. As for the later, we interview students in education-related department, according to the principle of purposeful sampling. The type of students set in our research including freshman, senior students, graduates and students who ever converted his major. Our empirical results indicate that, the education-majored students have similar social and economic status: most of them came from families with middle and low income. More than 40% students claim that education-related departments are not their first choice. The proportion and degrees of dissatisfaction of education-related students are significantly worse than those who from other departments. Specifically, the key factors include the quality of curriculum, faculty, and department overall. We also find that with the help of administrative management, the degrees of satisfaction of students could be increased. It implies that policies of multiple levels, i.e., department, university, and the Ministry of Education, should all be reconsidered simultaneously. However, the incentives which make students decide to transfer to other departments are not background factors, rather, are self-interests, personal ambition, and career goals. About the In-depth interview, the results responded to the outcome of statistical analysis partially. The main different is more female samples express their dissatisfaction, the issue of teachers’ profession is mentioned in the process. Personal interest is still the main factor that affect students’ career arrangements. Using data from Taiwan Higher Education Survey, our empirical results show that the proportion and degrees of dissatisfaction of education-related students are significantly worse than those who from other departments. Specifically, the key factors include the quality of curriculum, faculty, and department overall. We also find that with the help of administrative management, the degrees of satisfaction of students could be increased. It implies that policies of multiple levels, i.e., department, university, and the Ministry of Education, should all be reconsidered simultaneously.