What is meant by employability? How do we know if students’ employability increases over the course of an engineering degree?
This episode features Andrew Valentine (University of Melbourne). We talk about his paper published within the European Journal of Engineering Education, entitled, Enhancing the Measurement of Employability in Engineering: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review.
Follow this link to read the full paper.
Timestamps
0.00 Podcast introduction
0.27 Introduction to the episode
0.58 Overview of the work and how it came about
2.05 Summary of the paper
2.40 The research gap
4.44 Research aims and questions
5.26 The systematic literature review
10.41 Extracting the data
12.48 Need for conceptual Clarity and Consensus
15.51 Need for discipline (and sub-discipline) specificity
17.02 Need for Holistic Development Foci
19.11 Need for Transitional Rigor in Operational Definitions
20.15 Need for rigorous empirical validation.
22.00 Need for robust and apposite reporting mechanisms as opposed to self-report
24.30 Implications and what's next
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