BACKGROUND I have been a clinical tutor for 10 years in Worthing Hospital, UK. During this time I have seen an increased emphasis on classroom teaching, assessments in controlled situations and simulation, rather than on apprenticeship learning during well-supervised clinical working. CONTEXT At the educational conference on 'Learning without Leaving the Workplace' hosted by my hospital, I ha...

This paper develops a generalized apprenticeship learning protocol for reinforcementlearning agents with access to a teacher who provides policy traces (transition and reward observations). We characterize sufficient conditions of the underlying models for efficient apprenticeship learning and link this criteria to two established learnability classes (KWIK and Mistake Bound). We then construct...

Recent initiatives, such as Apprenticeship 2000 and the Department of Labor report Work-Based Training (1989), have urged a reexamination of apprenticeship training in the United States in order to bridge the skill needs of noncollege-bound youths. Much of this renewed focus has been inspired by the successful experience with apprenticeships in Germany. While there is much to learn from the Ger...

Despite growing support for supervision after task sharing trainings in humanitarian settings, there is limited research on the experience of trainees in apprenticeship and other supervision approaches. Studying apprenticeships from trainees' perspectives is crucial to refine supervision and enhance motivation for service implementation. The authors implemented a multi-stage, transcultural adap...

Noting that skills and knowledge taught in schools have become abstracted from their uses in the world, this paper clarifies some of the implications for the nature of the knowledge that students acquire through a i;roposal for the retooling of apprenticeship methods for the teaching and learning of cognitive skills. The paper specifically proposes the development of a new cognitive apprentices...

It is widely believed that a dual system of vocational education provides an efficient way to learn vocational skills and to lay the basis for an efficient insertion in the labour market. In the Netherlands students can choose between vocational schools and an education within the apprenticeship system. In this paper we analyze whether in the long run workers with an apprenticeship do better th...

Both the effectiveness of German Apprenticeship Training (GAT) and the reasons why firms voluntarily subsidise it hinge on how transferable it is. Describing the regulations surrounding GAT and examining the effects of post-apprenticeship mobility on wages and skill use using German panel data, we show that GAT is transferable within a broad vocational field (e.g. a 1-digit occupational group)....