At the age of 16, many young people in the UK decide to leave school and enter vocational education or training, either at a Further Education (FE) college, or on a Government training scheme. In spite of the size and importance of this group, the current debate about education and training standards has tended to focus more on how to improve schools, largely neglecting the potential contributi...

VRML is mainly to help realize the three-dimensional animation effect, and solve User interaction problem based on the three dimensional object in the homepage. VRML can provide the three dimensional virtual scene which allows the user to participate in and to control interactively, and improves the insufficiency of network courseware which only has the static picture and the traditional three-...

In recent years concept mapping has become a powerful tool that is widely used in different contexts in education. This paper describes the using of concept mapping in professional education. Concept mapping is a graphic technique that represents ideas, helps to think, solve a problem, plan a strategy or develop a process. Concept mapping is used in professional education, although not so widel...

ICT has been widely used in primary education to vocational schools, but has not been so clearly integrate ICT in the learning process. While the teacher is the key to the effective use of ICT processed. This paper reports a study of surveys that examine the perspective of vocational school teachers. Current research aims to examine a vocational school teacher knowledge about ICT and support fo...

High Quality Vocational education is one way to create skilled and professional human resources. In the implementation of teaching and learning process there are many components that are very important one of them is the educator (teacher), where through the quality of teachers materials are expected to be well absorbed by students. Teachers generally consist of male and female teachers where i...

Innovation in technology drives innovation in assessment (Conole & Warburton, 2005; Bartram, 2006; Drasgow, Luecht, & Bennett, 2006; Mayrath, Clarke-Midura, & Robinson, 2012). Since the introduction of computer-based assessment (CBA), a few decades ago, many formerly paper-and-pencil tests have transformed in a computer-based equivalent. CBAs are becoming more complex, including multimedia and ...

This study examined connections between paranormal beliefs and educational level, discipline, length of education, gender, and analytical and intuitive thinking. Finnish students (N = 3141) from 14 university and six vocational school disciplines filled in an Internet-based questionnaire. The results showed that university students had less paranormal beliefs than vocational school students, wh...