Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America.
Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2023 Mar 15;18(3):e0282323. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282323. eCollection 2023.
Higher education is a source of skill acquisition for many middle- and high-skilled jobs. But what specific skills do universities impart on students to prepare them for desirable careers? In this study, we analyze a large novel corpora of over one million syllabi from over eight hundred bachelors' granting US educational institutions to connect material taught in higher education to the detailed work activities in the US economy as reported by the US Department of Labor. First, we show how differences in taught skills both within and between college majors correspond to earnings differences of recent graduates. Further, we use the co-occurrence of taught skills across all of academia to predict the skills that will be taught in a major moving forward. Our unified information system connecting workplace skills to the skills taught during higher education can improve the workforce development of high-skilled workers, inform educational programs of future trends, and enable employers to quantify the skills of potential workers.
高等教育是许多中高技能工作获取技能的源泉。但是，大学究竟向学生传授哪些具体技能，使他们为理想的职业做好准备呢？在这项研究中，我们分析了来自美国 800 多所授予学士学位的教育机构的超过 100 万份教学大纲，这些教学大纲构成了一个大型新颖语料库，将高等教育中教授的内容与美国劳工部报告的美国经济中的详细工作活动联系起来。首先，我们展示了在学院专业内部和专业之间教授的技能差异如何对应于最近毕业的学生的收入差异。此外，我们使用整个学术界教授的技能的共现来预测未来专业的教学技能。我们将工作场所技能与高等教育期间教授的技能联系起来的统一信息系统，可以改善高技能工人的劳动力发展，为未来的教育项目提供信息，并使雇主能够量化潜在工人的技能。
