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Quality Indicators Guiding Secondary Career And Technical Education Programs Of Study, Xue Xing, Sara Shaw, Howard R. D. Gordon

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

The purpose of this study was to examine quality indicators currently guiding the rigor of secondary career and technical education (CTE) programs of study in the United States. Quality indicators are desirable characteristics or expectations for a comprehensive and effective CTE program of study. As of May 2017, we were able to locate publicly accessible secondary CTE quality program standards/guidelines for 38 states. A majority (n=24) updated their secondary CTE quality program standards/guidelines within the last five years (i.e., 2012-2017). Deductive content analysis was conducted to examine the 38 state profiles using the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE) …

Developing Multicultural Self-Awareness Through A Transformative Learning Experience, Cynthia Bezard, Sara A. Shaw

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the ways that a change in perspective can create a better understanding of cultural identity. This study addressed: (1) How does a self-awareness transformative learning experience develop critical cultural competence in career and technical education instructors? (2) How does the practice of critical reflection construct career and technical education instructors’ ability to develop self-awareness of critical cultural competence? (3) How does involvement in critical discourse construct career and technical education instructors’ ability to develop self-awareness of critical cultural competence? A three-phase professional development experience rooted in multicultural education provided key …

Promoting Active And Sustained School-Business Partnerships: An Exploratory Case Study Of An It Academy, Victor M. Hernandez-Gantes, Simone J. Brookins, Edward C. Fletcher Jr.

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

In support of the national push for promoting career readiness, school-business partnerships have been noted as an important support strategy. However, there is limited research in the context of career academies. Thus, we sought to explore the nature of a partnership between an information technology (IT) career academy and local business partners. We found that the development of social capital is required to keep the network of partners bonded toward a common goal, bridged through a Business Advisory Council to facilitate planning and related supports, and linked by a local web of connecting relationships. Study findings add to the limited …

Career And Technical Education For Sustainability: A Multiple Case Study Of Innovative Community College Programs, James A. Gregson, Karen Ruppel

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

This multiple case study explored Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that were identified as having a focus on sustainability. Using the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (AASHE STARS) as a conceptual framework, the researchers interpreted whether the social, economic, and environmental concepts of sustainability were included in these programs' curriculum. Findings suggested that several factors impacted program curriculum: (1) attentiveness to industry trends; (2) sustainability as an institutional core value; (3) geographic location of urban versus rural; (4) program maturity; and (5) advisory committee influence. Findings also suggested a …

Economic Attainment Patterns Of College-Educated Women In Mid-Career: An Objective Indicator Of Career Success, Hyojung Han, Jay W. Rojewski

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

The purpose of this study was to identify latent classes of college-educated late-baby-boomer generation women’s economic attainment (income) patterns during mid-career and examine the family and job satisfaction characteristics within each latent class. Longitudinal latent class analysis was used to analyze income data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 for 607 college-educated women in the United States for the years 1990 to 2010. The analysis revealed five distinct patterns of women’s economic attainment. A majority of the sample (72.7%) fell into the sustained growth group in which women’s economic attainment increased continuously and consistently. Approximately one-third of the …

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Journal of Research in Technical Careers

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Boys & Girls Club, Cheyenne Jael Natividad-Parraga

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Hunger.

College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2017, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …

Soda: Student Organizing Diversity Activities, Humberto Salmeron-Arreola

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The Social Issue that my service learning was addressing was the importance of multiculturalism, and why discrimination should no longer be a problem.

Boys & Girls Club, Alexandra Rivera

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Family income is also relevant when it comes to parental stress.

Aldeane Comito Ries Elementary School, Ashley Mullins

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

While I volunteered in a kindergarten classroom, the real problem is that Nevada doesn’t spend enough money on preschools which leads to children coming into kindergarten without the proper level of knowledge (Takashi). Part of this problem is that students come into kindergarten with delays in language and vocabulary (Rogers). I addressed this issue by helping the students with their letters and encouraging them to read the signs that the kindergarten teacher at Ries Elementary School had up around the classroom. Nevada has also only recently implemented standards for preschool (Gwertz). However, this doesn’t seem to make a difference as …

Volunteer Work At The Nevada State Museum, Hannah Spreger

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The State Museum addresses the issue of needing unique, interesting ways to learn, as well as an affordable way to access information to both children, adults, and people of all ages.

J.T. Mcwilliams Elementary, Anthony Cano

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

According to Nevada Report Card, 287,550 students in the state of Nevada are identified as minorities.

Project 150, Jacob Mcqueen

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that Project 150 seeks to address is the issue of homeless and underprivileged youth.

John D. Jackie Gaughan Clubhouse, Dakyung Jung

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

“Alleviating urban poverty depends significantly on economic growth and the nation’s ability to provide more, and better-paying, jobs” (Lemons, 2015).

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Ben Brikman

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

According to J Stuart Elborn (2016), a medical professor from Queen’s University Belfast, youth that grow up with this disease “have shown a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients with cystic fibrosis and parent caregivers.” It greatly affects a person when they are feel like it is a burden to take care of themselves. Many affected by psychological distress allows this negativity to affect their adherence to their treatment and experience more frequent exacerbations, which leads to a poor quality of outlook on life.

Religion Declining, Oscar Pascual

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

As of today, compared to previous generations there are fewer people going to church or are affiliated with a religion that day practice daily. During my volunteering in my service site, where it was my job to basically teach, or enlighten youths from a Catholic family and show them what their religion means to them and its importance, my fellow teachers and I face the challenge of basically grabbing their interest even worse their attention to the topic.

Boys & Girls Club, Justine Morales

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

BGC covers is childhood poverty.

Classroom Behavior And Respect, Anthony Weeks

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The social issue at hand is that of disruptive behavior and the teacher/student interactions within the classroom, especially in lower socio-economic schools.

Volunteering At Innovations International Charter School Of Nevada, Jannie Nigoza

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The lack of quality education among low-income or disadvantaged children.

Assistant Sunday School Teacherst. John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, Nicholas Barbarino

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Give the children the necessary information to be able to make a decision about the religion in their future.

Project 150, Anthony Louie

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Homelessness is a major problem in the world we live, but it is even bigger when it happens to youths.

Making A New Friend, Taylor Fireman

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Keeping elderly minds alive.

Golden Desert Speech And Debate, Grant Schober

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Health and well- being of kids.

Spread The Word Nevada, Kayla Mcclellan

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Availability of books in low budget schools.

Three Square And I, Alina Del Puerto

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

In southern Nevada, children and adults suffer from food insecurities.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association, Natasha Ortiz

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a social problem because the people affected by it do not get to live a normal life.

Rebel Recycling Program, Briana Pacheco

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The amount of waste produced every year is alarming and it is an ongoing issue.

Thomas O’Roarke Elementary, Jarod Grimm

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Parent involvement.

The Effects Of Distributed Trials On Behaviors Of Students With Significant Disability, Mona Nasir-Tucktuck

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Teaching academic instruction to students with significant cognitive disability (SCD) has been done with success over the past years (Browder, Mims, Spooner, Ahlgrim-Delzell, & Lee, 2008; Hudson & Test, 2011; Mims, Hudson, & Browder, 2012), However, research is scarce and further instructional strategies are needed to help align the standard-based curriculum for this population of students (Browder, Ahlgrim-Delzell, Flowers, & Baker, 2012).

The academic inclusion of students with SCD has been a topic of interest for researchers over the past few decades. In 1997, research on teaching academics to students with SCD was scarce (Nietupski, Hamre-Nietupski, Curtin, Shrikanth, 1997). The …