An Implementation Coaching Framework to Support a Career and University Readiness Program for Underserved First-Year College Students

Knotek, Steve; Fleming, Phylicia Fitzpatrick; Thompson, Loren Wright; Rouch, Erica; Senior, Melissa; Martinez, Robert R.

doi:10.1080/10474412.2018.1544903

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“…They feel that student-parents may “get lost in a crack” as they “go in and out like cattle.” This finding coincides with the well-established body of research on the importance of self-advocacy in college for academic performance and adaptation to college (Daly-Cano, Vaccaro, & Newman, 2015). Although the majority of self-advocacy research has focused on the utility of self-advocacy for students with disabilities, research is gradually supporting the relevance of self-advocacy skills for other nontraditional student population (e.g., underserved first year college students [Knotek et al, 2018] and various minority groups [Acevedo-Gil, 2017]).…”

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“If I spent five hours giving birth then I can do this final:” A qualitative investigation of college students with children.

Hotez

Lin

Chan

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Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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The last decade has witnessed an increasing number of students who are parenting while in college (i.e., student-parents). National statistics indicate that more than half of all student-parents discontinue their education before they attain their degree, often because of the competing demands of parenthood and school, financial constraints, and a lack of affordable and high-quality childcare. However, there is very limited qualitative information about the perspectives, experiences, and priorities of student-parents that may impede or bolster their success in higher education. As a result, institutions of higher education are unable to utilize the existing research to leverage supports for this growing population. The current research presents qualitative findings from a series of 6 focus groups on the daily lives of student-parents, their experiences with professors and peers in the classroom, their relationships with administrative staff, and their recommendations for institutions of higher education. Student-parents were both the participants and researchers in this work because they assisted in generating focus group prompts and took the lead on analyzing and interpreting the qualitative data. Findings shed light on the lived experiences of student-parents in college and highlight a range of recommendations to promote success for this population. What is the significance of this article for the general public?More than half of all college students with children (i.e., student-parents) discontinue their education before they attain their degree. Findings from the current study demonstrated that student-parents are a unique population with many strengths, including high levels of motivation and experience overcoming adversity. This research illuminated several strategies that can be implemented in colleges across the country to more effectively promote the success of student-parents in college.

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“If I spent five hours giving birth then I can do this final:” A qualitative investigation of college students with children.

Hotez

Lin

Chan

et al. 2020

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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“…Our undergraduate student population is greater than 50% first-generation students. Early efforts to support first-year and sophomore level students in their transition to education and career preparedness show positive results for longterm educational and career success (Knotek et al, 2019;Lopez Vergara, 2022). While our program decided to create a new course at the 200-level, it is also possible to integrate career readiness competencies into existing courses, and additional faculty members are integrating these competencies at the 300-and 400-levels.…”

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Career readiness: preparing social work students for entry into the workforce

Moore,

Thaller

2023

Front. Educ.

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Career readiness of college graduates is of critical importance in higher education. As defined by the career readiness is the attainment and demonstration of requisite competencies that broadly prepare college graduates for successful transition into the workplace and/or graduate school. This article outlines the development of a sophomore-level course – Critical Thinking and Writing for Social Work Professionals – as part of a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program at Ball State University. The primary purpose of this course is to help students develop career readiness competencies that support their growth throughout their educational and professional social work careers. The career readiness competencies support the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards required by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The authors discuss the importance of this approach for undergraduate education and how career readiness enhances and builds upon CSWE competencies. The authors conclude with a brief discussion of student feedback and lessons learned through this process that suggests students’ gained career readiness skills.

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“…This psychological contract is employed to define the beliefs, assumptions, obligations and expectations the client has about the coaching relationship and to clarify uncertainty (McComb, 2009). Once this process has been completed, the coach needs to develop a thorough understanding of the client's environment (Knotek et al, 2019). The coach needs to explore the nature of the client's role within the organization, his primary function, the contextual challenges the client faces and the available resources at hand (Malinga et al, 2019).…”

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Positive Organizational Interventions: Contemporary Theories, Approaches and Applications

Zyl

Rothmann

2021

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Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers Journal SeriesThe Frontiers Journal Series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of open-access, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers Journal Series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to QualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject.

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An Implementation Coaching Framework to Support a Career and University Readiness Program for Underserved First-Year College Students

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

“If I spent five hours giving birth then I can do this final:” A qualitative investigation of college students with children.

“If I spent five hours giving birth then I can do this final:” A qualitative investigation of college students with children.

Career readiness: preparing social work students for entry into the workforce

Positive Organizational Interventions: Contemporary Theories, Approaches and Applications

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