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Direct linkDarmawan Muttaqin – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) is one of the instruments that can be used to assess vocational identity. Conceptually, VISA consists of six sub-dimensions and has been validated using factor analysis. This study provides a factor structure test of the Indonesian version of VISA using the exploratory structural equation modeling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Vocational Interests, Occupational Tests
Martyn Quigley; Charlotte Smith; Eloise Stocker; Alexander Bradley – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to examine university students' knowledge, confidence and experience of popular graduate employer selection tests. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional self-report survey was administered to gather a sufficient number of quantitative responses from undergraduate students. A total of 241…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Employers, Personnel Selection
Judy Goldenberg – Teacher Development, 2024
Classroom teaching is a demanding and arduous profession, requiring teachers to have a suitable personality to succeed and persevere. However, academic institutions usually determine acceptance based solely on cognitive test scores, despite research indicating the added value of personality measures. This study presents the MESILA personality…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Research, Prediction, Alternative Assessment
Angelina Lim; Sunanthiny Krishnan; Harjit Singh; Simon Furletti; Mahbub Sarkar; Derek Stewart; Daniel Malone – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Work Based Assessments (WBAs) are the mainstays of assessing clinical competency in health professions' education. Underpinned by the extrapolation inference in Kane's Validity Framework, the purpose of this study is to determine whether OSCEs translate to real life performance by comparing…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Performance Based Assessment, Vocational Evaluation
Download full textNurtanto, Muhammad; Arifin, Zainal; Sofyan, Herminarto; Warju, Warju; Nurhaji, Soffan – Online Submission, 2020
The field legality of expertise for job applicants in the field of vocational education is one of the strong considerations. This recognition can obtain through accredited professional institutions such as the Professional Certification Institute (PCI), which operates independently. The problem arises that PCI in the automotive sector consists of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Auto Mechanics, Job Skills, Occupational Tests
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Educational Researcher, 2023
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Bayrakci, Mustafa; Karacaoglu, Ömer Cem – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
Learning outcomes are the first and most essential element of the curricula and the correct and rigorous determination of the learning outcomes is very important in order to ensure formal education in schools to be well-planned and to design and apply curriculums effectively. Because, the other elements of the curriculum which are content,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Tests, Curriculum Development, Teaching (Occupation)
Kim, Yoon Jin; Tak, Minhyeok – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
The form of Physical Education (PE) teacher selection matters in that, as a system of rules (i.e. institution), it shapes the practices of Initial Teacher Education (ITE), including pre-service PE teachers' daily preparation for teaching qualification and employment. This article examines the secondary PE teacher selection examination as one of…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Selection, Socialization, Preservice Teacher Education
Karatas, Tuçe Öztürk; Okan, Zuhal – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
In the face of a growing population in the world, an increase in the number of large-scale or standardized testing practices in various contexts has been observed not only to measure individuals' achievement and proficiency but also to serve political, social, economic and ideological functions. In Turkey, English language teacher recruitment is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Stocks, Eric; Culclasure, Brooke; Odell, Michael – Grantee Submission, 2021
The effect of the New Tech Network (NTN) design on students' academic achievement and workforce skills was tested in several schools in the southeastern United States. Results are provided for a sample of four treatment and four matched and equivalent control schools. Results suggest that the NTN treatment in schools implementing with fidelity…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Job Skills, High School Students, Integrated Curriculum
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Coskuner, Zeki; Ugurlu, Fatih Mehmet – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
This study was conducted to reveal the occupational anxiety levels of prospective physical education and sports teachers in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 354 prospective teachers who were chosen by the random sampling method from four universities. The "Occupational Anxiety Scale" was used to collect the data from the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Athletics, Anxiety
Dorans, Neil J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
A distinction is made between scores as measures of a construct and predictions of a criterion or outcome variable. The interpretation attached to predictions of criteria, such as job performance or college grade point average (GPA), differs from that attached to scores that are measures of a construct, such as reading proficiency or knowledge…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Scores, Data Interpretation, Statistical Distributions
Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Girdler, Ray – ACT, Inc., 2020
The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) is focused on transforming Arkansas to lead the nation in student-focused education. To accomplish this vision, one of ADE's goals is for each student to meet or exceed milestones along pathways to graduate high school prepared for college, career, and community engagement. Some career and technical…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, High Schools, High School Students, Job Skills
Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Hawk, Wendi – ACT, Inc., 2020
This study sought to estimate the potential benefits of using ACT® WorkKeys® Curriculum to improve foundational workplace skills and subsequent performance on the ACT® WorkKeys® Applied Math, Workplace Documents, and Graphic Literacy assessments. Students at Nevada State High School (NSHS) took the WorkKeys Assessments before and after using ACT…
Descriptors: High School Students, Program Effectiveness, Job Skills, Occupational Tests
