scholarly journals Becoming the boss : using Schlossberg's Transition Theory to explore new supervisors' transition to supervisory roles at a federal government agency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
Schlossberg's Transition Theory

Exploring the experiences of adult learners in a transition program

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney E Karmelita
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Support System ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
College Education ◽  
Transition Programs ◽  
Transition Program ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Schlossberg's Transition Theory ◽  
Health Related

Transition programs have emerged as a support for adult learners seeking college education. Adult learners’ perspectives are missing in the literature on transition programs. To better support adult learners in transition programs, it is essential to understand their experiences and perspectives. Using Schlossberg’s Transition Theory (Anderson, Goodman, & Schlossberg, 2012) and Cross’s (1991) student barrier categorizations as a framework, this narrative study investigates the experiences of five adult learners enrolled in a transition program. The findings indicate that the relationships the participants formed through the program served as a support system, and that participation in the program led to a shift in self-perception. The participant narratives also highlight barriers to college enrollment for adult learners, such as difficulty using technology and health related issues.

User Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 829-846
Author(s):  
Robert Anthony Jordan ◽  
Alison Carr-Chellman
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
User Design ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
Standardized Curriculum ◽  
And Diffusion

This case describes how a federal government agency engaged in a user design process to design, develop, and implement a workplace learning curriculum to be implemented throughout several agency offices. While several offices had developed their own training program, there were inconsistencies and a lack of standardization. The authors describe how a user design process was utilized in the development of a standardized curriculum. User design shifts the responsibility of design from expert designers to frontline users and stakeholders. Several user-driven tools are available to organizations that adopt user design processes. Potential advantages of a curriculum developed through user design include better adoption and diffusion of the curriculum and improved engagement of the users in the workplace.

scholarly journals DATA Act Dashboard: An Instructional Case Using Data Visualization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A Kitching ◽  
Eileen Coble ◽  
Alex Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Object Class ◽  
Government Accountability Office ◽  
Government Accounting ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The U.S

This case instructs students on how to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from disparate sources to perform analysis on Federal Government agency spending transactions: the financial statements of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, DATA Act spending data, and Office of Management and Budget object class definitions. Students also learn to construct an interactive dashboard to allow uses to routinely discover and investigate agency spending data and to drill down to specific dimensions, such as program activity or object classification, and to specific general ledger ledger accounts used by the Federal Government. This is accomplished by using parameters created in the ETL portion of the case. This case is designed to be flexible so that it can be implemented in any undergraduate or graduate accounting course from government accounting and auditing to data analytics based on the instructor’s preference.

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