Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Call for Papers - Assessing Financial Literacy as a Basis for Designing and Evaluating Interventions in Vocational and Adult Education and Training

The increasing importance of financial literacy in everyday life is mainly driven by socioeconomic trends, such as changes in the financial and labour markets and the decline of the welfare state, that impose challenges on citizens that cannot be tackled by family socialisation and everyday experience alone. In contrast, they demand education or training intervention. This thematic issue is focused on different approaches of assessing financial literacy.

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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

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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ISSN: 1877-6345

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Journal metrics 2016

Speed
27 days from submission to first decision
13 days from acceptance to publication
Usage
39,354 downloads
1,650 median Usage Factor
Impact
CiteScore 2016
0.71
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
0.307
Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.644

Society affiliation

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 SERI, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.