Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

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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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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