What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work

Work in progress - Developing engineers for 2020 - An innovative curricular and co-curricular approach

The E2020 Scholars Program is a National Science Foundation Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Program providing scholarships for cohorts of first-year and transfer undergraduate engineering students. The conceptual framework of the E2020 Scholars Program is designed to advance the academic and professional development of the scholar using the college’s learning community infrastructure and building...

Curricular and Extra-curricular Activities to Develop the Environmental Awareness of Young Students: a Case from Turkey

The purpose of this case study was to investigate curricular (within school) and extra-curricular (out-of-school) activities undertaken to develop students’ environmental awareness. In-depth information was gathered from six middle-school students (three females and three males) and three science teachers (all females) through the use of a semi-structured interview. Furthermore, selected classe...

Optimization of the Logistics of Extra-curricular Activities

Most of the children develop extra-curricular activities in the afternoon after the school timetable. These activities are generally organized in each school, but sometimes the amount de scholars interested in one activity is very limited; the school has a few available resources or the preferences of their students do not match with the facilities. To expand the number of activities offered to...

Extra-curricular activities and academic performance in secondary students

Extra-curricular physical activity and socioeconomic status in Italian adolescents

BACKGROUND The relationship between physical activity and health status has been thoroughly investigated in several studies, while the relation between physical activity and socio-economic status (SES) is less investigated. The aim of this study was to measure the extra-curricular physical activity of adolescents related to the socio-economic status (SES) of their families. METHODS The survey...