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Zeggelaar, Albert; Vermeulen, Marjan; Jochems, Wim – Professional Development in Education, 2022
The environment in which Vocational Education and Training (VET) schools operate changes rapidly due to more varied student populations, personalised, blended and work-based learning paths, developments in digitalisation, industry, and labour markets. These changes and policy pressures to ensure VET quality, demand teachers to continuously develop…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
Kis, Viktoria – OECD Publishing, 2016
Realising the potential of work-based learning schemes as a driver of productivity requires careful design and support. The length of work-based learning schemes should be adapted to the profile of productivity gains. A scheme that is too long for a given skill set might be unattractive for learners and waste public resources, but a scheme that is…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Productivity, Program Length, Capacity Building
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Amagir, Aisa; Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, HenriĆ«tte; Wilschut, Arie – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2019
Using a framework for educational design research, this article reports and evaluates the (process of the) design of a financial education program. The program is designed for high school students in the prevocational track in the Netherlands. The aim of the program is to improve students' financial knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Design, Money Management, Vocational Education
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Biemans, Harm J. A.; de Bruijn, Elly; den Boer, Peter R.; Teurlings, Christa C. J. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
An important trend in Dutch Vocational Education and Training (VET) to ensure the curriculum continuity of sequential educational programmes is the design of continuing pathways encompassing more than one qualification level. These continuing pathways are characterised by different design formats and differences in learning environment…
Descriptors: Participant Satisfaction, Academic Achievement, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
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Wesselink, Renate; Dekker-Groen, Agaath M.; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
Competence-based education is becoming increasingly popular. Competencies are used more and more as the starting point for designing curricula and instructional methods, especially in vocational education and training, to realize authentic and self-steering study programmes. Despite its popularity in both research and educational settings, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Manpower Div. – 1965
AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF TWO SAMPLES DRAWN FROM ONE GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN EACH OF FOUR COUNTRIES AIMED TO DETERMINE THE TRAINING AND JOB HISTORIES OF SKILLED WORKERS IN THE METAL TRADES AND THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT TRAINING SYSTEMS. THE COUNTRIES WERE SELECTED TO REPRESENT (1) PREDOMINANTLY SCHOOL-BASED TRAINING (BELGIUM), (2) HIGHLY REGULATED…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Rumble, Greville, Ed.; Oliveira, Joao, Ed. – 1992
This book contains the following papers on distance vocational education programs: "Vocational Education at a Distance" (Oliveira, Rumble); "An Introduction to Case Studies" (Oliveira, Rumble); "'Working on Work': Orientation on Work and the Labour Market in the Netherlands" (Bender, Bronkhorst); "Expanding…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Case Studies, College Programs, Computer Science Education