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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 ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:12
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...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:11
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...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:10
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...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:9
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...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:8
The ASCOT research initiative funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research had the objective to measure vocational competencies in high-quality jobs. To adequately assess these it is important to o...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:7
The Federal Vocational Baccalaureate constitutes the major link between the academic and vocational tracks in the Swiss educational system. Statistics show that only 20 % of a cohort move immediately to an aca...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:6
Research on teachers’ professional knowledge and skills is becoming increasingly important. However, valid assessments of teachers’ knowledge and skills are scarce. In this study, we report on our development ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:5
Social integration is an important outcome of organizational socialization. It helps adolescents after transition to their first job to adapt rapidly to the new work and organizational situation. Positive soci...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:4
Laboratory assistants in biology and medicine play a central role in the operation of laboratories in hospitals, research institutes, and industries. Their daily work routine is characterized by dealing with m...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:3
The paper investigates the perceptions of young women during their vocational education and training (VET) in traditionally male-dominated STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—by analy...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:2
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:1
The original article was published in Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:12
Completion rates in Australian vocational education and training (VET) are notoriously low. While there are conventional reasons such as issues with course, health, institutional factors, financial and family ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:14
There is a general consensus regarding the stressful nature of the teaching profession and an extensive body of literature has shown a multitude of risks and protective factors that influence teachers’ profess...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:13
Regional context conditions can have a crucial impact on school-to-work transitions and subsequently individual life chances. This paper aims to develop an approach to analyse the spatial references of regiona...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:12
The Erratum to this article has been published in Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:1
Descriptive accounts of instruction in German vocational schools consistently indicate whole-class dialogue to be prevalent. We aim to extend previous research by elucidating pedagogically valuable dialogic pr...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:11
Given the lack of research on predictors of students’ learning success in vocational domains, the present study aims to identify determinants of student competence growth in the subject Accounting. Based on th...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:10
This paper compares narrow, or specialised, and broad, or less specialised, upper-secondary vocational education (VE) programmes in the Netherlands with respect to their graduates’ position in the labour marke...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:9
The vision of an “Internet of Things” seems to capture numerous application fields at present, especially in the field of logistics. Despite the undisputed advantages the implementation of the “Internet of Thi...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:8
This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers. As a starting point, vocational teaching as a profession is based on a type of dual professionalism. Thus, the conditio...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:7
The importance of professional competence (PC) in business administration (BA) has increased considerably in many industrial nations over the past several years. However, while economic competence is being ass...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:6
This study explores the interaction between organizational and psychological factors that play a role in professional teacher learning. More specifically, how teachers’ engagement in learning activities (e.g. ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:5
As teacher training plays a major role in the development of (prospective) teachers’ knowledge, differences between the professional knowledge of prospective teachers at Austrian and German universities were e...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:4
We posit that nascent entrepreneurs should develop a competence dealing with success and a competence preventing and treating failure. We call these competences “Sense of Success” and “Sense of Failure”. Both ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:3
This article addresses the question of which physical-technical prior competencies students in Germany start their engineering studies with. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence of e.g. formal qualifications...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:2
There has been much interest in the notion of vocational competencies of late. The pressing question, however, is how to measure vocational competencies. In order to contribute to this ‘how’, the results of th...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:1
Using a unique, longitudinal survey that follows school-to-work transitions of pupils who participated in PISA 2000, this paper investigates adverse consequences, so-called scarring effects, of early unemploym...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:12
The purpose of this survey was to relate completion rate and results on national clinical final examinations to student’s admission background and examination results for nursing and medical courses.
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:11
Using a sample about company hiring behaviour from the BIBB Establishment Panel on Training and Competence Development 2011, this paper analyses the hiring decisions of German establishments. Companies essenti...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:9
Recent developments in policy concerned with raising achievement in schools have given rise to work-based learning as a mechanism for dealing with disaffection. Alongside this redress is the potential for prom...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:10
This study investigates the determinants of career change for individuals who change their job to become a teacher in vocational education and training (VET) as a second career. The question of what motivates ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:8
A hypothetical descriptive behavioral model extending the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was examined for subjective perceived control beliefs as antecedents of the apprenticeship orientation for vocational-...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:7
Switzerland is host to many international companies, and a large share of Swiss firms is exporting goods and services abroad. While the vocational education and training (VET) system in Switzerland has a long ...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:5
In the German dual system of vocational education and training, the question arises of whether and how enterprises react to demographic changes by adjusting their supply of training places.
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:4
Spatial skills are crucial for carpentry and are a major learning objective in the initial vocational training of carpenter apprentices. Carpenters specifically need to develop the capability to switch between...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:3
Vocational learning comprises more than factual knowledge and procedures; the development of a vocational identity is a key aspect and outcome of vocational education provisions and assumed to play an integral...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:6
‘Non-excludability’ of skills is suspected to give rise to poaching externalities and cause under-investment in training. To substantiate this hypothesis, the paper at hand investigates the relationship betwee...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:1
In many OECD countries an apparent connection is shown between education, the local economy and the local labor market. This connection seems to be stronger and more radical in Sweden, than in other similar co...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:2
The world is facing a worsening youth employment crisis. In response, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is back on the development agenda after years of neglect. This systematic review exa...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:3
Both fostering and measuring action competence remain central targets of vocational education and training research; adequate measurement approaches clearly are prerequisites for international, large-scale ass...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:2
The number of registered apprentices in Canada more than doubled between 1995 and 2007, yet successful completion of apprenticeship programs increased by only about one-third as much. Uncovering the factors re...
Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:1
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