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Exploring Congruency between Engineering students’ Professional Role Preference, Competences and Career Choice KU Leuven
Self and professional awareness are important factors when choosing a profession that is congruent with one’s interest and competences. This study investigated the quality of professional role choice of 55 Belgian final-year engineering students. We examined congruency between vocational interest, self-perceived strengths and weaknesses and career aspirations. Through mixed methods, three professional role outcomes were measured: role preference ...
Preparing Engineers for the Future by Raising Awareness of Professional Roles KU Leuven
A better understanding of the professional future has positive outcomes for student learning and job satisfaction. However, engineering students are often unaware of what kind of engineer they want to be and what professional competences it requires. It is generally agreed that different types of jobs require different competences. To support engineering students to become more aware of their future possibilities and requirements, a Professional ...
Teachers’ attitudes toward teaching integrated STEM: The impact of personal background characteristics and school context KU Leuven
A promising approach to increase students’ motivation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is integrated STEM education (iSTEM). This is an instructional approach that emphasizes the deeper connections between the STEM disciplines by involving students in design challenges centered around real-world problems. However, the successful implementation of a new instructional approach, such as iSTEM, strongly depends on ...
@level2work: naar een job op niveau voor hoogopgeleide anderstalige nieuwkomers. Lessen uit de AMIF proeftuinen. KU Leuven
Hooggeschoolde anderstalige nieuwkomer doen het slecht op de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt: slechts 45% van deze doelgroep blijkt een job te hebben 5 jaar na aankomst in België en die is vaak onder hun niveau. Om deze ‘brain waste’ tegen te gaan, werden binnen het AMIF project @level2work diverse acties ontwikkeld om hoogopgeleide nieuwkomers uit derde landen meer kansen te geven op een job die gelijkloopt met hun opleidingsniveau. In totaal werden ...
Wanted: super(wo)man A study to define professional roles for future engineers by distinctive professional competences. KU Leuven
Excellent communication skills, work independently, a big team player, fluent in English … This is just a selection of professional competences mentioned in vacancies addressed to young engineers. Unless they are super(wo)man, it is impossible for engineering students to acquire a mastery level in all professional skills. Different types of jobs are associated with different demands. The professional role is relevant for explaining the ...
How school context and personal factors relate to teachers' attitudes toward teaching integrated STEM KU Leuven
Integrated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is an emerging approach to improve students’ achievement and interest in STEM disciplines. However, the implementation of integrated STEM education depends strongly on teachers’ competence, which entails, among others, teachers’ attitudes. Nonetheless, not much is known about the factors that influence teachers’ attitudes toward teaching integrated STEM. Therefore this ...
Can group composition effects explain socioeconomic and ethnic achievement gaps in primary education? KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This study investigates whether group composition effects (GCE) can help to explain why achievement gaps encountered by low-SES students with or without migration background are not fully reduced or even widen in the course of their primary school careers. The study used data from a longitudinal study with mathematics achievement as dependent variable. Higher proportions of low-SES students with migration background were ...
The influence of teachers' attitudes and school context on instructional practices in integrated STEM education KU Leuven
This paper uses structural equation modelling (SEM) to examine the influence of teachers' attitudes and school context on reported instructional practices in integrated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Instead of using an overall measure for integrated STEM, five specific characteristics (integration, problem-centered, inquiry-based, design-based, and cooperative learning) are examined to get a more in-depth and nuanced ...