The process of selecting or developing an assessment begins with an examination of the intended uses of the assessment results. The first section of this chapter explores the purposes of vocational assessment and classifies the case studies of alternative assessment systems by purpose. Then, because vocational assessments must take into account the characteristics of the students being educated...

Practical teaching is an important part of teaching activities in colleges and universities. Based on the characteristics of vocational colleges, the article expounds the importance of practical teaching in the teaching system of vocational college. Meanwhile it makes an analysis on the current situations and development demand of vocational college, discusses how to make more students make ful...

BACKGROUND Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) face many challenges when attempting to return to work (RTW). Vocational evaluation (VE) is a systematic process that involves assessment and appraisal of an individual's current work-related characteristics and abilities. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study are to (1) examine demographic and employment characteristics of vocational rehabi...

The aim of this review is to describe aspects of vocational rehabilitation relevant for a physician aiming to become a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM). The review discusses the epidemiology of incapacity for work, the major patient groups in vocational rehabilitation (musculoskeletal and psychiatric diagnoses comprise approximately 50-70% of the patients), the influence...

The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with a positive outcome of vocational rehabilitation, and to identify groups that have been successfully rehabilitated in a Swedish rural area. In this study vocational rehabilitation is defined as medical multidisciplinary, psychological, social and occupational activities aiming to re-establish, among sick or injured people with p...

The development of occupational therapy is rooted in early 20th century medical reform. During the early 1910s, several members of the medical profession, human service workers, and the larger American society were increasingly disturbed by medical practices that did not consider the individual's personal experience of disability. Occupational therapy was developed, in part, out of this desire ...

In The Netherlands a curriculum project is carried out in which a new mathematics program is developed for vocational education (engineering, age group 16-20). Because mathematics should really support the vocational courses, it was decided to develop mathematical concepts starting in the context of engineering. Many mathematical issues that are taken for granted in general education are of no ...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are among the largest contributors to the global burden of disease and have negative effects on both the individual and society. Depression and anxiety are very likely to influence the individual's work ability, and up to 40% of the people on sick leave in Denmark have depression and/or anxiety. There is no clear evidence that treatment alone will provide suffi...

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases the unemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a “control function” estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and ide...

Abstract Although there is a wealth of research on the educational and broader outcomes tracking in education, virtually no that investigates teachers’ track identities such outcomes. Building focuses determinants job satisfaction, social categorization theory, this study tests relationship between perceived public regard their Belgian context within- (vocational, technical general education tr...