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Call for Papers - Test motivation and test conditions in domain-specific assessments in VET

Test takers’ performance may be affected by their motivation and commitment to complete the assessment successfully, and by personal consequences of failure or success in terms of high- versus low-stakes testing. This thematic series is focused on exploring the effects of test motivation and conditions on outcome measures in domain-specific assessments and questionnaire studies, in the field of vocational education and training.

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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.

Articles

Content type: Research
| 20 March 2018

The professional development of VET teachers in Italy: participation, needs and barriers. Statistical quantifications and benchmarking in an international perspective

Authors: Marco Serafini
Content type: Research
| 21 February 2018

Hungarian vocational education teachers’ views on their pedagogical knowledge and the information sources suitable for their professional development

Authors: Csaba Csíkos, Zsuzsa Kovács and Orsolya Kereszty
Content type: Research
| 6 January 2018

Supporting change in VET: teachers’ professional development and ECVET learner mobility

Authors: Cathal de Paor
Content type: Review
| 14 December 2017

Recommendations for confronting vocational education dropout: a literature review

Authors: Antoni Cerda-Navarro, Jaume Sureda-Negre and Rubén Comas-Forgas
Content type: Research
| 30 September 2017

Employers and apprenticeships in England: costs, risks and policy reforms

Authors: Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth

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Content type: Review
| 20 December 2013

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) for young people in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors: Janice S Tripney and Jorge G Hombrados
Content type: Research
| 16 July 2013

Measurement of vocational competences: an analysis of the structure and reliability of current assessment practices in economic domains

Authors: Esther Winther and Viola Katharina Klotz
Content type: Research
| 25 April 2014

Promoting workforce excellence: formation and relevance of vocational identity for vocational educational training

Authors: Viola Katharina Klotz, Stephen Billett and Esther Winther
Content type: Research Article
| 15 May 2014

A study of carpenter apprentices’ spatial skills

Authors: Sebastien Cuendet, Jessica Dehler-Zufferey, Christoph Arn, Engin Bumbacher and Pierre Dillenbourg
Content type: Research
| 7 November 2014

Dealing with disaffection: the influence of work-based learning on 14–16-year-old students’ attitudes to school

Authors: David Allan

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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

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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Book series

Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects

Innovation and Change in Professional Education

Professional and Practice-based Learning

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