Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Call for Papers: 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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The influence of informal learning opportunities on adolescents’ financial literacy

Authors: Michelle Rudeloff

Content type: Research

7 October 2019
Developing financial competence about mortgage loans by informal learning using banks’ online calculators

Authors: Bärbel Fürstenau and Mandy Hommel

Content type: Research

18 September 2019
Associations between vocational students’ perceptions of goal structures, mastery goals, and self-efficacy in five subjects—practical relevance as a potential mediator

Authors: Lisa Bardach, Vera Popper, Elke Hochfellner and Marko Lüftenegger

Content type: Research

4 June 2019
A comparative analysis of the OECD/INFE financial knowledge assessment using the Rasch model

Authors: Bernadene de Clercq

Content type: Research

15 April 2019
Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder

Authors: Giovanni Russo, Marco Serafini and Antonio Ranieri

Content type: Research

21 March 2019

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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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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.

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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