Preparing for Life “Beyond Academe”: Professional Skills Development for Graduate Students in Canadian Universities

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Marilyn Rose
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Canadian Universities

scholarly journals Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Professional Skills Development Program: The Case of Concordia University’s GradProSkills

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Vivek Venkatesh ◽  
Jihan Rabah ◽  
Laurie Lamoureux-Scholes ◽  
Ildiko Pelczer ◽  
Kathryn Urbaniak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
Workshop Evaluation

The Graduate and Professional Skills (GradProSkills) program is an initiative developed and run by Concordia University’s School of Graduate Studies and the university’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies. This paper presents a case study in which we describe the development, implementation, and evaluative components of the GradProSkills program. Drawing on data from a rigorously validated workshop evaluation tool and from attendance figures spanning a period of a little over two and a half years, we provide a picture of how Concordia’s graduate students are benefiting from the GradProSkills program. We present the results of both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses run on a pilot group of registrants who provided evaluation data (n = 3,292). Our case study contributes an empirically derived model of extracurricular programming, with contextualizing details of administrative structures, curriculum-development initiatives, and partnership efforts that have been used in operating the GradProSkills program.   

Academic motivation and professional skills development in the Specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism at a public university [Motivación académica y desarrollo de competencias profesionales en la Especialidad de Ciencias Sociales y Turismo de una universidad pública]

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Ana Cecilia De Paz Lazaro ◽  
Jessica Luz Palomino Collantes
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Public University ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Competencias Profesionales ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of the research is to determine the relationship between academic motivation and the professional skills development in the specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. The study is quantitative and the design is non-experimental correlational translational. The results indicate that there is a high level relationship (0.914) between the independent academic motivation variable and the professional competences development in the Specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. In conclusion, motivation is directly related to the professional skills development in the specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. The research results conclude that there is a high relationship between the variables.

STUDENT’S PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BY OUT-OF-CLASS DISPATCHING CONTROL TASKS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Наталья Ленмировна Бацева
Keyword(s):  
Educational Program ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Dispatching Control

В статье представлен опыт реализации внеаудиторной самостоятельной работы студентов по дисциплине «Оперативное управление в энергетике» образовательной программы «Цифровая энергетика». На примере показано, какие компетенции могут быть развиты при выполнении профессионально-ориентированных задач. The author presents the experience of out-of-class student’s work implementation for dispatching control course. This course belongs to the educational program “Digital Energy”. Using the example, the list of developed skills is demonstrated when a student takes on the professionally oriented out-of-class tasks.

USING PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayse Liz das Graças Conceição ◽  
Cristiana Fernandes de Muÿlder ◽  
Ericson Marquiere Reis Silva ◽  
Deise Kinsk Reis Silva
Keyword(s):  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Business Professional

scholarly journals Professional skills development for mathematics undergraduates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-386
Author(s):  
Ewan Russell ◽  
Peter Rowlett
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Style ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Module Design ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of a final year undergraduate mathematics module designed to address professional skills development at a UK university, including via input to curriculum and assessment from employers, and to investigate student acquisition of skills from this module. Design/methodology/approach Literature on skills development in mathematics informs module design and development. Students optionally completed Likert-style competency questionnaires before and after the taught module content, and reflected on skills development via an end of module questionnaire. Data collection took place over three academic years. Findings Several key competencies exhibit median increases over the course of the module in each academic year, indicating a perceived skills development. Problem solving and presentation skills are particularly highlighted. Research limitations/implications Numbers of students were small, though the study is repeated with three different cohorts. Some students study mathematics jointly with another discipline and hence may have experience in skills development from the other subject. Practical implications This study indicates that innovations in teaching style and assessment in mathematics modules can enhance student confidence and competence with key professional skills. Originality/value Undergraduate modules in mathematics which have a focus on professional skills development are still fairly rare in UK universities. Often such modules do not embed the professional skills development activities with subject-specific technical tasks and projects as this module does. There are few formal studies of the effectiveness of this style of module, especially longitudinal studies covering several academic years.

scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING SKILLS AMONG VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN INFORMATIONALLY RICH EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
A.A. YAKUMOV ◽  
◽  
L.V. BLINOV ◽  
S.A. GORDIN ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Technical School

Statement of the problem. This article formulates and analyzes the problem of creating organizational and pedagogical conditions for development of professional skills among vocational education teachers via informationally rich educational environment created in a technical school. The purpose of the article is to experimentally prove that specially organized pedagogical activity of teachers in the field of vocational education develops their professional skills in the informationally rich educational environment. Methodology (materials and methods). The concepts of personally oriented and cultural approaches [Rogova 2016] made up the research methodology in terms of its logic and the processes being examined. They also gave an opportunity to determine the components and direction of vocational training and self-improvement among teachers in the field of vocational education. The concepts of continuous pedagogical education [Livingstone, 2001] served as the ground for revealing the potential of informationally rich educational environment and ways of its realization as a factor of professional skills development. Conclusion. Organizational and pedagogical conditions for realization of informationally rich educational environment potential and improvement of teachers’ professional skills have found practical use and have been tested in the natural environment of the secondary vocational education system. The main output of our work is mathematically confirmed effectiveness of these organizational and pedagogical conditions for development of professional skills among modern teachers of vocational education.

scholarly journals An A to W of Academic Literacy: Key Concepts and Practices for Graduate Students. Mary Jane Curry, Fangzhi He, Weijia Li, Ting Zhang, Yanhoung Zuo, Mahmoud Altalouli, & Jihan Ayesh. University of Michigan Press, 2021.

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 163-166
Author(s):  
Caroline Diezyn
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Academic Year

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the number of international students registered at Canadian universities rose to over 318,000 (Government of Canada, 2020). Hailing from diverse linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds, these students face unique challenges when starting academic studies in Canada. But it is not just international students, and not just graduate students, who can benefit from Mary Jane Curry’s An A to W of Academic Literacy: Key Concepts and Practices for Graduate Students. Any first-generation academics, undergraduates in writing-heavy programs, and instructors will find this text useful, too.

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