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Call for Papers: Authentic Technology-based Learning and Testing Environments in Vocational Education and Training

In the course of an increasing digitalization of the working world, everyday work activities are becoming more and more technology-based. Therefore, technology-based learning and assessment is of particular importance in vocational education and training (VET) as it provides authentic tasks and tools and learning opportunities in controlled environments.  

Reducing ethnic minority youth’s disadvantage in accessing vocational training

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Call for Papers: Promoting financial literacy in Vocational Education and Training

Financial literacy is as an increasingly important skill. It varies within and across age and population groups, but overall deficits must be assumed. 
In order to remedy this problem and to promote financial literacy effectively, research is needed that focuses on the development and evaluation of support measures be it in the context of initial vocational education or continuous vocational education and training.

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2020

The Economics of Vocational Education and Training
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
Edited by:  Prof. Dr. Samuel Mühlemann and Prof. Dr. Harald Pfeifer, Maastricht University, Netherlands and BIBB, Germany


2018

Test motivation and test conditions in domain-specific assessments in VET
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
Edited by: Jun. Prof. Dr. Kristina Kögler, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Helm, Dr. Alexander Robitzsch


Assessing Financial Literacy as a Basis for Designing and Evaluating Interventions in Vocational and Adult Education and Training
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
Edited by: Prof. Dr. Carmela Aprea, Prof. Dr. Eveline Wuttke, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Fürstenau


2016

Transitions - Research with longitudinal data
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
Transitions of adolescents and young adults within the educational system and the labor market.
Edited by Prof. Dr. Stephan Schumann, Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber, Prof. Dr. Kurt Häfeli
Collection published: 1 June 2016



Technology-based assessment of domain-specific work-related competences
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
A broader understanding of competence that goes beyond knowledge reproduction in traditional testing and measurement of outcomes of educational efforts.
Edited by Prof. Dr. Eveline Wuttke, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Seifried, Dr. Andreas Rausch



2015

Thematic series
Assessment of Domain-specific Professional Competencies
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
Edited by Prof Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Prof Richard Shavelson
Collection published: 12 February 2015

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Transitions - Research with longitudinal data
Transitions of adolescents and young adults within the educational system and the labor market.

Assessment of Domain-specific Professional Competencies
National and international perspectives on modeling and assessing professional competencies in higher education.

Technology-based assessment of domain-specific work-related competences
A broader understanding of competence that goes beyond knowledge reproduction in traditional testing and measurement of outcomes of educational efforts.

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Call for Papers: Exploring resilience in vocational and professional contexts




ERVET welcomes papers that brings together current research that progresses the emerging field of resilience in vocational and professional contexts, in order to expand our understanding of how resilience can be conceptualised and measured in these contexts, to provide evidence in terms of effective interventions to build and sustain resilience, especially in times of crisis. Read more and submit your paper.

ERVET is indexed by ESCI and SCOPUS

Empirical Research in Vocational Training and Education has been accepted by the Emerging Sources Citation Indext (ESCI) and is indexed by SCOPUS with an annual CiteScore of 2.2. 

Aims and scope

The main focus of this journal is to provide a platform for original empirical investigations in the field of professional, vocational and technical education, comparing the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of different vocational education systems at the school, company and systemic level. The journal fills a gap in the existing literature focusing on empirically-oriented academic research and stimulating the interest in strengthening the vocational part of the educational system, both at the basic and higher education level.

Contributions published in this journal cast new light on a broad range of topics related to teaching and learning in vocational education, such as pedagogy practices, apprenticeship, competence development, validation of test instruments and assessment, professional challenges with certain labour-market conditions, and classroom experience. Offering evidence and reports from basic education and training to continuous or adult learning, Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training will appeal not only to academics and researchers in the field of vocational education, but also to policy-makers, policy planners and administrators, school-leaders and trainers.

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Latest Thematic Series: The Economics of Vocational Education and Training

The labour markets of many industrialised countries are facing extensive technological and demographic changes. Digitalisation, networking, and robotics all transform the world of work and with it the demand for skills and qualifications. Vocational education and training (VET) is often valued for its ability to help young people transition smoothly from education to employment. Despite an increasing amount of research in this area, many questions in the field of the Economics of VET remain unanswered. 
 

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SpringerNature supports ORCID in this journal

SpringerNature supports the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifier, which is an ID that uniquely attaches your identity to your research work. The result: no more confusion because another researcher has the same or a similar name. You get the credit for your work.

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Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training is an initiative of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) (Bern, Switzerland), in collaboration with the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB). The publication costs for the journal are covered by the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education (SCCRE), so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

  • ISSN: 1877-6345 (electronic)