BACKGROUND Self-sufficiency is the realisation of an acceptable level of functioning either by the person him/herself or through the adequate organisation of help from informal or formal care providers. Assessment of self-sufficiency for determining an individual's functional strengths and areas for improvement is increasingly being applied among adolescents in vocational education, a group con...

In this article, we applied the AHP method with quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to analyze three sorts of basic educational mode combining production with learning and research, i.e. the automated instruction, the mode combining production and learning, and the integration combining production with learning and research, and obtained that the educational mode combining production...

BACKGROUND Transition from comprehensive school to later educational tracks is challenging for many adolescents. The present three-wave longitudinal study conducted in Finland considers this issue from the perspective of school burnout. AIMS The study investigated the extent to which school-related burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and feelings of inadequacy) changes during the transition from c...

The Relation of Vocational Training to Academic Education M. Bohlooli Faskhoodi S. Zarghami, Ph.D. Y. Ghaedi, Ph.D. R. Barkhordari, Ph.D. The traditional approach to education advocates a dichotomy between vocational training and academic education. Some scholars contend that the knowledge which resides in minds of individuals is more valuable than hands-on skills, wherea...

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...

The first part of the article is based on a book “The Challenges of ICT in Finnish Education” (Sinko&Lehtinen, 1999). That book describes results of national research about ICT in Finnish education. The project was divided into five sub-projects: universities (two sub-reports) edited by Jarmo Viteli; kindergartens and institutions of general and vocational education edited by Liisa Huovinen wit...

The intent of this study was to examine the leadership of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) reforms in Arsi administrative Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia. To achieve this purpose, researcher used mixed approach research paradigm. The participants of the study include: 45 trainers, 35 board members, and 18 District officials. Moreover, 6 Deans, 6 core process owners, 2 zona...

has made the world more modern, not less. But how has modernity been conceived of in colonial, postcolonial, and post-revolutionary worlds? In Figurations of Modernity, an international team of scholars probe how non-European worlds have become modern ones, from the perspective of a broad range of societies around the globe. From vocational education in Argentina to secular morality in Tibet, f...

This study tested a conceptual model to determine the strengths and directions ofrelationshzps between selected predictor variables and the attitude of employers about vocational education. Personal characteristics of employers and characteristics of the firm served as predictor variables. Variables significantly related with employer attitude were type of business, employee educational level, ...

In recent years vocational education and training has been recognised as having a crucial impact on worker productivity, enterprise performance and the overall performance of the New Zealand economy. The importance of vocational education and training gives rise to the issue of the efficient operation of educational institutions. In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis is used to derive estimat...