Over recent years competency-based training and assessment have gained the attention of teachers and trainers. National competency standards for the teaching profession were the focus of an Australian Teacher Education symposium at which Leo Bartlett and Glen Evans were main contributors (Cairns, 1992). Later, the Australian College of Education published a collection of articles on the compete...

Vocational assessment data were collected from 94 low-education adults with severe substance abuse problems not currently in treatment. Participants completed the My Vocational Situation (MVS), SelfDirected Search (SDS), and Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory (R-FVII). Lower scores than the normative sample were revealed on all MVS scales, with scores for men being significantly lower t...

“Work” provides people with a means for economic independence. Besides, it enhances the development of identity, social relations and sense of mastery. In Chinese culture, work is regarded as a very important component of life. Hong Kong, as part of China, is a highly commercialized city, and “able to engage in work” is an essence of life of its people. Nevertheless, major initiatives which cat...

The use of social media has become popular in the professional IT sector, requiring specific skills to exploit their full potential. Based on our model on relevant social media skills we report on a study testing related proficiencies of IT vocational students. From this we derive three technology-enhanced training instruments to foster the skills in vocational education processes.

1 Department of Furniture and Decoration Education, Dumlupinar University, 43500 Simav-Kutahya, Turkey. 2 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Giresun University, Giresun Vocational School, 28048, Giresun-Turkey. 3 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin Vocational School, 08000, Artvin-Turkey. 4 Department of Forest Industrial Engineering, Artvin Coruh Univer...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

This study is to investigate the historical characteristics of medical education and healthcare environment in Korea and to suggest the desirable direction for future medical education. We draw a consensus through the literature analysis and several debates from the eight experts of medical education. There are several historical characteristics of medical education: medical education as vocati...

ew system of secondary education has been incepted in 1992, consisting of three study branches of theoretical, technical/ vocational, and kardanesh. regarding the founding philosophy of kardanesh branch, i.e. provision of skilled manpower proportionate with labor market need and also training skilled, semi-skilled and master workforce, art students may receive kardanesh high school diploma prov...

Introduction Theoretical and empirical aspects of interactions between person and situation have been discussed for decades in personality and social psychology in terms of the interactionist paradigm (e.g. Matthews et al. 2003), in educational psychology within the scope of aptitude-treatment interaction theory (e.g. Cronbach and Snow 1977; Yeh 2012), and in vocational education and training (...

The initial one-year education was extended gradually to present compulsory nine-year basic education. Children start schooling at the age of six with basic education (single structure of primary and lower secondary education). This is followed by two-, threeor fouryear middle (upper secondary) vocational, technical or general education. Then there are three universities for graduate and postgr...