scholarly journals The Impact of a Career and Technology Education Program

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401667803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Boot Chumbley
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Dual Enrollment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Dual Credit ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Career And Technology Education ◽  
Colleges Of Agriculture ◽  
The Impact

There continues to be a shortage of qualified graduates for agriculture jobs within the United States. One reason for this shortage is the decline in student enrollment in colleges of agriculture. One tool that can increase college preparation for future graduates and help students succeed is the agriculture dual-enrollment program. Dual enrollment allows high-school students to take courses while dually enrolled in a corresponding college course. The program was found to have a positive impact on students taking more rigorous courses and gaining in-depth knowledge of agriculture. Teachers felt that this program helped in establishing higher standards in coursework and in feeling satisfied about their job. It enhanced prestige and program reputation. Dual enrollment was seen to have little to no impact on school counselors. Research focused on the pedagogical approaches of these course offerings will benefit the creation of future high-quality dual credit courses.

scholarly journals Self-care perspective taking and empathy in a student-faculty book club in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Rebecca Henderson ◽  
Melanie Gross Hagen ◽  
Zareen Zaidi ◽  
Valentina Dunder ◽  
Edlira Maska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Informal Curriculum ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: We aimed to study the impact of a combined faculty-student book club on education and medical practice as a part of the informal curriculum at the University of Florida College of Medicine in the United States.Methods: Sixteen medical students and 7 faculties who participated in the book club were interviewed through phone and recorded. The interview was then transcribed and entered into the qualitative data analysis program QSR NVivo (QSR International, Burlington, MA, USA). The transcripts were reviewed, and thematic codes were developed inductively through collaborative iteration. Based on these preliminary codes, a coding dictionary was developed and applied to all interviews within QSR Nvivo to identify themes.Results: Four main themes were identified from interviews: The first theme, the importance of literature to the development and maintenance of empathy and perspective-taking, and the second theme, the importance of the book club in promoting mentorship, personal relationships and professional development, were important to both student and faculty participants. The third and fourth themes, the need for the book club as a tool for self-care and the book club serving as a reminder about the world outside of school were discussed by student book club members.Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that an informal book club has a significant positive impact on self-care, perspective-taking, empathy, and developing a “world outside of school” for medical school students and faculty in the United States. It also helps to foster meaningful relationships between students and faculty.

scholarly journals Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim G. Piepenburg ◽  
Lukas Fervers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Choice Of Major ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDespite an almost endless list of possible study programs and occupational opportunities, high school students frequently focus on pursuing a small number of well-known study programs. Students also often follow gender-typical paths and restrict their attention to study programs in which the majority of students consists of same-gendered people. This choice pattern has far-reaching consequences, including persistent gender segregation and an undersupply of graduates in emerging sectors of the industry. Building on rational choice and social psychological theory, we argue that this pattern partly occurs due to information deficits that may be altered by counseling interventions. To assess this claim empirically, we evaluated the impact of a counseling intervention on the intended choice of major among high school students in Germany by means of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We estimate the effect by instrumental variable estimation to account for two-sided non-compliance. Our results show that the intervention has increased the likelihood that participants will consider less well-known or gender-atypical study programs, particularly for high school students with lower starting levels of information. Supplementary analyses confirm that a positive impact on information seems to be one of the relevant causal mechanisms. These results suggest that counseling services have the potential to guide high school students to less gender-typical and well-known majors, possibly reducing gender segregation and smoothing labor market transitions after graduation.

scholarly journals Serious Play in Education for Social Justice - A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Wartenweiler
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
The Impact

Fair Battles is a 12-week Swiss education for social justice program with the goal of sensitizing high school students about the impact of their consumer habits on society. The pedagogical concept of Fair Battles is to employ the tool of serious play to enhance students’ social empathy, which then leads to service learning projects. This exploratory mixed-methods study examined the impact of the program by using pre- and post-program student surveys (n=16) and post program semi-structured qualitative student interviews (n=10). The survey data were analyzed using SPSS and the interview data were analyzed using template analysis. The results were organized according to Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model. The quantitative results show a statistically significant increase in the post-program survey scores for the learning and behavior level. The qualitative results suggest that the program had a positive impact on students on all four of Kirkpatrick’s levels. The conclusions are that the Fair Battels program is impactful, that social justice education needs to be holistic and that the combination of serious play and service learning elements seems to be effective for social justice education. Further research in the area of social justice education and serious play is recommended

scholarly journals Impact of family remittances and the Prospera program on high school students in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico

Ánfora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (42) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Renato Pintor Sandoval ◽  
Brianda Elena Peraza Noriega ◽  
Karen Olivia Heredia Trasviña
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Program ◽  
School Dropouts ◽  
School Students ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact

Objective: to establish the impact of family remittances from the United States and the "Prospera" welfare program for the high school student population in a community with high social exclusion and poverty in Sinaloa.Methodology: first, the population, economic and work activities in the community of Choix, Sinaloa were described. Then, the discussion on remittances and the beneficiary families of the Prospera program were characterized; finally, a survey was designed and applied to 114 high school students and families from Choix.Results: the findings showed that remittances do not stop school dropouts from high school students in Choix. Although, some of those students use family remittances and the Prospera program help for their education. The social program Prospera works as an incentive to the students´ education. Family remittances are mainly used for family support.Conclusions: social assistance programs focused on poverty have been a visible trend. However, they do not tackle the problem at its root, but they make up macroeconomic indicators, which will continue with the same logic, such as: permanent discrimination and migration in those places, because public policy strategies will always emerge.

Bullying and Delinquency: The Impact of Anger and Frustration

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charern Lee ◽  
Justin W. Patchin ◽  
Sameer Hinduja ◽  
Alexandra Dischinger
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
School Students ◽  
Being Bullied ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

Few studies have explored whether individuals who are bullied at school or online are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior. Even less is known about whether negative emotions (i.e., anger or frustration)—as a result of being victimized—mediate the relationships between being bullied or cyberbullied and delinquency (as predicted by Agnew's general strain theory). The current study uses data from a national sample of 2,670 middle and high school students in the United States. Results indicate that youth who were bullied or cyberbullied, and who experience negative emotions as a result, are more likely to engage in delinquency. Negative emotions did not mediate the relationship between bullying and delinquency; however, they did partly mediate the relationship between cyberbullying and delinquency. The findings indicate that being bullied matters more in explaining delinquent behavior than the negative emotions that may result. Implications for research and policy are discussed in light of these findings.

scholarly journals Dual-Enrolled Students' Perception of the Effect of Classroom Environment on Educational Experience

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heath Burns ◽  
Beth Lewis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Dual Enrollment ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
School Students ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
The Impact

The researchers investigate the perceptions of dually-enrolled high school students. The researchers concentrate on the actual and perceived impact of the facility on the instructional benefits of the course. Additionally, the researchers explore the impact of combining high school and college students in a common classroom working with identical curriculum. Through critical inquiry the researchers provide a forum for dually-enrolled learners to articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the dual-enrollment model in which they participate.

scholarly journals The impact of computer and internet at home on academic results of the Saber 11 national exam in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Barrios Aguirre ◽  
Martha Patricia Castellanos Saavedra ◽  
Diego A. Forero ◽  
Sandra Yaneth Mora Malagón
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Results ◽  
At Home

<p>The use of a computer and internet connection allows high school and university students to access more relevant information. However, there is no consensus on the effects of the use of these tools on academic results. This work evaluates the impact of computer and internet at home on the results of the Saber 11 test, a national exam taken by all students finishing their secondary education in Colombia, between 2017 and 2019. This impact was estimated from a pooled two-stage least squares (pooled 2SLS) model, applied to data from 1.578.460 Colombian high school students. We found that computer and internet at home had a positive impact on English language performance in the Saber 11 test in Colombia. This work allows a better understanding of the technological effects on educational achievement and provides information for the design of public policies for education in developing countries.</p><p> </p>

Impact of Digital Technologies on the Competitiveness and Professional Education of High School Students in the usa and Singapore

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Vladimir Innokentievich Petrishchev ◽  
◽  
Tatiana Petrovna Grass ◽  
Matvey Aleksandrovich Mashukov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The relevance of this problem lies in its insufficient study in comparative pedagogy. Modern society in many countries of the world, based on market relations, seeks to create an environment with the widespread use of information technologies, makes high demands on school graduates who must be ready to realistically assess the level of their abilities and social skills, make an informed choice of their future profession, and competently build communication with social institutions and employers. The purpose of the article is to identify and characterize the impact of digital technologies on the competitiveness and vocational education of high school students in the economically developed countries, such as USA and Singapore. Research methodology and methods. Analysis of scientific literature, initiatives and projects in the two studied countries in the field of introducing digital technologies into the practice of vocational education showed the feasibility of introducing new technologies and forms of organizing training. Research results. The article emphasizes that the emergence of new digital technologies and the pandemic in early 2020 have fundamentally changed the usual patterns of behavior and practice in every country. In the United States, in 2020, due to Covid-19, the “Workplace” simulator model has become widespread, allowing high school students to acquire work skills in selected clusters (specialties) as successfully as if they worked in a real workplace, and in Singapore new technology of 3D virtual reality contributed to the acquisition of professional competencies by high school students and to increase their competitiveness. Conclusion. The study of the impact of the introduction of digital technologies in the professional education of students in the United States and Singapore is of important, not only theoretical, but also practical value, since it contributes to the competitiveness of graduates of educational organizations.

scholarly journals Spotlighting Stigma and Barriers: Examining Secondary Students’ Attitudes Toward School Counseling Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X1881127
Author(s):  
Richard W. Auger ◽  
Nicholas R. Abel ◽  
Brandie M. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Impact

Student attitudes toward accessing school counseling services were the focus of a survey of 3,584 middle school and high school students. Respondents identified barriers to seeking help from school counselors, including stigma, a desire to manage problems themselves, a lack of a positive relationship with their school counselor, and a concern that the counselor would not keep disclosures confidential. This study also examined the impact of gender, age, and race/ethnicity on students’ willingness to seek help from their school counselor. We present implications for practice and future research.

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