Education + Training: Volume 62 Issue 5

Overcoming the challenge of “fuzzy” assessment and feedback

Brendan Boyle, Rebecca Mitchell, Anthony McDonnell, Narender Sharma, Kumar Biswas, Stephen Nicholas

This paper explores the challenge of “fuzzy” assessment criteria and feedback with a view to aiding student learning. The paper untangles three guiding principles as mechanisms to…

Toward the development of a model of student usage of MOOCs

Eli Fianu, Craig Blewett, George Oppong Ampong

The study seeks to investigate the factors that influence MOOC usage by students in tertiary institutes in Ghana.

Factors influencing internship satisfaction among Chinese students

Wai Ming To, Jane W.Y. Lung

An internship is an essential part of vocational-oriented degree programs because it enhances the employability of graduates and prepares them for career development. Thus, it is…

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy and a student's predisposition to choose an entrepreneurial career path: the role of self-perceived employability

B.N. Neneh

The purpose of this paper is to examine how entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and self-perceived employability (SPE) affect students' choice of an entrepreneurial career path.

The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education: a case study

Andrew Paul Clarke, Clare Cornes, Natalie Ferry

A case study was undertaken to evaluate the use of self-reflection in enterprise education in a UK university, where the taught content was tailored to ensure relevance to the…

Underlying strategies for improving entrepreneurial skills development of technical and vocational students in developing countries: using Ghana as a case study

Ernest Kissi, Divine Kwaku Ahadzie, Caleb Debrah, Theophilus Adjei-Kumi

In Ghana, graduates often have limited entrepreneurial skills and rarely undertake entrepreneur initiatives as they are persistently in search of non-existing jobs in the formal…