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Table 1 Overview of the studies

From: Guiding workplace learning in vocational education and training: a literature review

Study

Sample

Country

Data

Method

1. Chan (2014)

90 apprentices

New Zealand

Interviews

Qualitative

2. Collin and Valleala (2005)

18 design and development engineers,

15 youth workers

Finland

Observations

Interviews

Qualitative

3. Corney and du Plessis (2010)

106 male apprentices

Australia

Questionnaire with scales: Mentoring Relationship Scale (Scandura and Ragins 1993), 3 subscales: Psychosocial support

Career development

Role modelling

Quantitative

4. Evanciew and Rojewski (1999)

Three apprentices, 3 mentors

United States of America

Observations

Field notes

Interviews

Document analysis

Qualitative

5. Filliettaz (2011)

Cohort of about 40 apprentices

Switzerland

Observations

Audio-video recordings

Qualitative

6. Fuller and Unwin (2004)

29 apprentices, 29 workers

UK

Interviews

Learning logs

Surveys

Observation

Mixed methods

7. Gurtner et al. (2011)

19 apprentices

Switzerland

Audio-recordings on mobile devices

Mixed methods

8. Koskela and Palukka (2011)

Stage 1: 9 trainees, 6 trainers

Stage 2: 2 trainees, 4 trainers

Finland

Observations

Video recordings

Qualitative

9. Nielsen (2008)

Four apprentices, 2 journeymen, 1 master,

12 apprentices (from 3 group interviews)

Denmark

Observations

Interviews

Qualitative

10. Onnismaa (2008)

27 students

Finland

Interviews

Qualitative

11. Reegård (2015)

11 apprentices, 7 managers

Norway

Interviews

Observations

Qualitative

12. Savoie-Zajc and Dolbec (2003)

175 students, teachers, stakeholders

Canada

Three questionnaires:

Expectations

Learning

Overall appraisal

Interviews

Mixed methods

13. Smith (2000)

389 apprentices, 8 apprentices

Australia

Questionnaire Canfield Learning Styles Inventory, CSLI (Canfield 1980), 16 subscales

Interviews

Mixed methods

14. Tanggaard (2005)

10 male apprentices

Denmark

Interviews

Observations

Qualitative

15. Wegener (2014)

More than a 100 students, teachers and supervisors

Denmark

Field observations

Interviews

Qualitative

16. Winters et al. (2009)

24 students, 15 teachers, 18 mentors

Netherlands

Conversation

Qualitative

17. Virtanen and Tynjälä (2008)

531 vocational students

Finland

Questionnaire (Tynjälä and Virtanen 2005; Virtanen and Tynjälä 2006)

Quantitative

18. Virtanen et al. (2014)

1603 vocational students

Finland

Questionnaire

Quantitative