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  1. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Felix Walker, Nico Link and Reinhold Nickolaus

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:7

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    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...

    Authors: Michael Jüttler, Andreas Jüttler, Stephan Schumann and Franz Eberle

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:6

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  3. Content type: Research

    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 ...

    Authors: Christiane Kuhn, Alicia C. Alonzo and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:5

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  4. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Christof Nägele and Markus P. Neuenschwander

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:4

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  5. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Stephan Gantner, Jörg Großschedl, Devasmita Chakraverty and Ute Harms

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:3

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  6. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Elena Makarova, Belinda Aeschlimann and Walter Herzog

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:2

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  9. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Viviana Sappa, Elena Boldrini and Carmela Aprea

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:13

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  10. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Katarina Weßling, Andreas Hartung and Steffen Hillmert

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:12

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2016 8:1

  11. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Tobias Kärner and Julia Warwas

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:11

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  13. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Johan Coenen, Hans Heijke and Christoph Meng

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:9

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  14. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Anne Bremer

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:8

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  15. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Per Andersson and Susanne Köpsén

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:7

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  16. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Manuel Förster, Sebastian Brückner and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:6

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  17. Content type: Research

    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. ...

    Authors: Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Peter JC Sleegers and Klaas van Veen

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:5

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  18. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Sabine Fritsch, Stefanie Berger, Jürgen Seifried, Franziska Bouley, Eveline Wuttke, Kathleen Schnick-Vollmer and Bernhard Schmitz

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:4

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  19. Content type: Research

    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 ...

    Authors: Fritz Oser and Tanja Obex

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:3

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  20. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Stefan Behrendt, Elmar Dammann, Florina Ștefănică, Bernd Markert and Reinhold Nickolaus

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:2

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  22. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Laura A Helbling and Stefan Sacchi

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:12

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  23. Content type: Research

    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.

    Authors: Maria Emilsson, Martin Gellerstedt, Maria Skyvell Nilsson, Ina Berndtsson, Kristina Johansson and Sandra Pennbrant

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:11

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  24. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Lutz Bellmann, Philipp Grunau, Klaus Troltsch and Günter Walden

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:9

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  25. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: David Allan

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:10

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  26. Content type: Research

    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 ...

    Authors: Stefanie Hof and Mirjam Strupler Leiser

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:8

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  30. Content type: Research Article

    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...

    Authors: Sebastien Cuendet, Jessica Dehler-Zufferey, Christoph Arn, Engin Bumbacher and Pierre Dillenbourg

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:3

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  31. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Viola Katharina Klotz, Stephen Billett and Esther Winther

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:6

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  32. Content type: Research

    ‘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...

    Authors: Normann Mueller

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:1

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  33. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Magnus Fjellström

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2014 6:2

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  34. Content type: Review

    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...

    Authors: Janice S Tripney and Jorge G Hombrados

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:3

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  35. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Esther Winther and Viola Katharina Klotz

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:2

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  36. Content type: Research

    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...

    Authors: Christine Laporte and Richard E Mueller

    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2013 5:1

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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.

  • ISSN: 1877-6345 (electronic)

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