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

Autor/inn/en	Venkatesh, Vivek; Rabah, Jihan; Lamoureux-Scholes, Laurie; Pelczer, Ildiko; Urbaniak, Kathryn; Martin, Frédérica
Titel	Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Professional Skills Development Program: The Case of Concordia University's GradProSkills
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 44 (2014) 3, S.39-53 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0316-1218
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Graduate Study; Skill Development; Case Studies; Course Evaluation; Statistical Analysis; Extracurricular Activities; Curriculum Development; Partnerships in Education; College Administration; Professional Development; Universities; Program Implementation; Program Development; Measures (Individuals); Demography; Reliability; Satisfaction; Predictor Variables; Canada (Montreal) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Statistische Analyse; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; University; Universität; Programmplanung; Messdaten; Demografie; Reliabilität; Zufriedenheit; Prädiktor
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01