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A Way With Words: A Unique Approach To Literacy And Career Development, Allyson D. Brathwaite
A Way With Words: A Unique Approach To Literacy And Career Development, Allyson D. Brathwaite
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This article describes a unique collaboration between the Career Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia Public Schools and the community. A WAY WITH WORDS is an "America Reads" community literacy program that has enriched the educational experience of graduate, undergraduate and K-5 students since 1996. Teams of undergraduate volunteers led by graduate students in Counseling Psychology and Educational Leadership (ELPA) tutor local children in an effort to increase literacy. The teams interact and communicate with children, parents, teachers and principals as they serve during school and in after-school programs that they co create with school administrators and community members. …
A Meta-Analysis On Experience Based Career Education, Ronald B. Bucknam, Sheara G. Brand
A Meta-Analysis On Experience Based Career Education, Ronald B. Bucknam, Sheara G. Brand
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Our meta-analysis of 80 evaluations of Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) programs shows that EBCE works. Students not only scored significant gains in career, life attitude, and academic skills during their EBCE experience, but they also showed significantly greater gains in all three of those outcome areas than comparison students who received the regular high school curriculum. The positive statistical significance of the findings was so large that we developed a new index, called the "Basic Index of Strength" or the BIS, in order to discuss and compare differences in the strength of the findings.