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There is a compelling case for strengthening the strategies for assessment of competencies adopted in vocational and education training programs in Australia. A review of assessment in nationally recognised Vo...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:14
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, challenges, and economic problems, and they typically act as consumers, savers, voters, and employees. It is highly desirable for ci...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:13
Published on: 21 June 2017
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To maintain relevance, institutes for vocational and professional education (VPE) need to be responsive to changes in society and industry. This requires leaders and educators in VPE to keep developing themsel...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:12
Published on: 6 June 2017
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Students’ positive emotions, such as enjoying learning activities at school, are increasingly recognized as being conducive to learning. Researchers therefore seek to understand the roles that teachers’ emotions ...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:11
Published on: 24 May 2017
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The study aims to investigate stress-inducing potentials of problem-solving activities (e.g., goal elaboration, decision making, and information seeking) within an authentic problem-solving task from the busin...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:10
Published on: 11 May 2017
Review
This review provides an overview of the empirical research concerning guidance in the context of vocational education and training (VET). The study examines practices, providers and supporting and hindering fa...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:9
Published on: 18 April 2017
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Educators today have to be able to make current empirical research results usable for everyday practice. Consequently, there are increasing endeavors to develop and assess competencies in consuming empirical r...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:8
Published on: 27 March 2017
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In Germany, almost 15 per cent of all first-year students leave higher education without obtaining a degree. The German post-secondary educational system is tracked however, and many dropouts enter the labour ...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:7
Published on: 27 March 2017
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Educational experts commonly agree that tailor-made guidance is the most efficient way to foster the learning and developmental process of learners. Diagnostic assessments using cognitive diagnostic models (CD...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:6
Published on: 14 March 2017
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In Sweden, some occupations require post-secondary apprenticeship, e.g. those who are to become construction workers, while some do not, e.g. those who are to become business and administration workers. Resear...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:5
Published on: 11 March 2017
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Nowadays, there are common phenomena among college nursing students who reported increasingly test anxiety. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to increase understanding of American community colleg...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:4
Published on: 2 March 2017
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Vocational education and training (VET) aims to enable young adults or trainees to participate in the workplace, and to promote their vocational capacities. In order to examine trainees’ competencies at the en...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:3
Published on: 27 February 2017
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Empowering leadership practise among leaders in the construction industry contributes to improve occupational safety, by stimulating participative safety behaviour among construction workers. Socialization int...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:2
Published on: 2 February 2017
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In the Netherlands, there has been a strong increase in diversity among students in recent decades. Even though access for previously underrepresented groups based on economic status, ethnicity or culture has ...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2017 9:1
Published on: 17 January 2017
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In an increasingly globalized world, the call for internationally comparable competence measurements has emerged. After several international studies on pre-college education, the focus has shifted to internat...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:18
Published on: 12 December 2016
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This study links TREE panel data surveying school-to-work transitions in Switzerland with unique job advertising data from the Swiss Job Market Monitor that mirrors individual job opportunities. We investigate...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:17
Published on: 3 December 2016
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Commercial apprenticeship is the most commonly chosen type of apprenticeship within vocational education training in Switzerland. Both the Swiss economy and the training companies themselves benefit when appre...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:16
Published on: 29 November 2016
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Investigating individuals’ sequences of occupations and identifying suitable patterns is a complex task. Most research focuses on single time-points, single jobs and single transitions and only few longitudina...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:15
Published on: 25 November 2016
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Mathematical competency is central to life in modern society, and it is particularly important for many occupations and professions. In Germany, young people with insufficient mathematical skills experience si...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:14
Published on: 4 October 2016
Research
In reference to the interactionist paradigm, we analyse how students’ emotional states during class are affected by student’ self-regulation, by time-varying characteristics within learning situations, and by ...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:12
Published on: 26 September 2016
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Since the restoration of independence in Estonia in 1991, much has changed with regard to vocational education and training (VET). Radical social and economic developments took place in the early 1990s and in ...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:13
Published on: 26 September 2016
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This paper examines the transitions made by lower secondary school leavers and intermediate secondary school leavers into vocational education and training in Germany. With the basis that boys have long been u...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:11
Published on: 22 September 2016
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The difficulties regarding the definition and measurement of social competences, crucial to the research in vocational education and training, are well known. In this paper, we show, based on the example of me...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:10
Published on: 22 August 2016
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To measure higher-order outcomes of vocational education and training (VET) we developed a computer-based assessment of domain-specific problem-solving competence. In modeling problem-solving competence, we di...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:9
Published on: 19 July 2016
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Regional opportunity structures have received little attention in research on educational aspirations and attainment. This papers aim is to address whether regional opportunity structures affect educational at...
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:8
Published on: 15 July 2016
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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 SERI, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.
