ERIC Number: ED452420
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2000-Mar
Pages: 490
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ISBN: ISBN-0-9586188-3-6
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Future Research, Research Futures. Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) (3rd, Canberra, Australia, March 23-24, 2000).
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria.
These proceedings consist of 66 conference papers on these themes: changing nature of work; emerging technologies; internationalization of vocational education and training (VET); enterprise and educational innovation; flexible delivery approaches; and research and technology and using technology in research. The papers are "Training Needs of Older Workers" (Ball et al.); "In Search of Evaluation Truths--Representation and Abstraction" (Barratt-Pugh); "Competency-Based Assessment--One-Minute Wonder or Here to Stay?" (Booth); "Technical and Further Education (TAFE) as a Pro-Active Partner in VET in Schools" (Bradbery, Murphy); "Work-Related Learning and Changing the Nature of Work" (Brown); "Improving the Incentives for Investment in Learning by Adults" (Burke); "Seductive Hope of Education Work" (Childs); "Managing a Case Study Approach in VET Research to Address the Funding Agency's Criteria" (Choy, Hill); "Constructing Work" (Crowley et al.); "Changing Nature of Work and the New Politics of Literacy" (Devereaux); "Key Competencies in Training Packages" (Down); "Facilitating Educational Growth" (Down); "Unintegrated Training? Exploring Links Between Off- and On-the-Job Learning" (Dymock, Gerber); "Leadership in VET" (Falk); "Outcomes for Apprentices and Trainees in Australian Small Enterprises" (Freeland); "National VET Research and Evaluation Program" (Gibb); "University-VET Transition" (Golding, Vallence); "Voices in VET" (Green); "Work as Paid Employment" (Hanrahan); "Trying to Hit a Moving Target" (Harris, Simons); "'There Are Workplace Trainers and Then There Are Workplace Trainers'" (Harris, Simons); "Measuring Organizational Capability" (Hase); "VET Research Information from Around the World" (Hayman); "Collaborative Insider Research in VET" (Herbert); "Researching VET and the Voluntary Sector" (Hopkins); "English Rules OK?" (Kell et al.); "VET in Rural Schools" (Kilpatrick et al.); "Contributions of VET to Regional Communities" (Kilpatrick et al.); "'I Am Still Studying, I Just Have Not Finished'" (Kirkby); "Lifelong Learning in the New Millennium" (Krogh); "Learning from History" (Kronemann); "Admin Training Company's Best Practice Models" (Lewanski); "RAVL Symposium" (McIntyre et al.); "Further Local Participation Study" (McIntyre); "Using Longitudinal Data for Research on VET" (McKenzie); "Value of Work-Based Learning" (McNickle);"Effectiveness of Workplace Training and Assessment Practices in On-the-Job Traineeships" (Misko et al.); "Impact of E-Commerce on Online Learning Systems in the VET Sector" (Mitchell); "Exploring Capacity-Building" (Modra, Seddon); "Relationship Between Course Design, Delivery, & Course Outcomes" (Moy et al.); "What Skill? Whose Knowing? Futures for Competency Based Training" (Mulcahy, James); "Management Education" (O'Keefe); "Strategic Alliances and the New World of Work" (Owen, Bound); "Outcomes from Enabling Courses" (Phan, Ball); "Selling TAFE Short" (Pitt); "Leadership of Change--TAFE Study" (Rice); "Learning and Assessment Issues in Apprenticeships and Traineeships" (Robertson et al.); "How Owner/Managers Decide to Participate with New Apprenticeships for the First Time" (Rowlands); "Impact of VET Research" (Smith); "Police Culture and the Learning Organization" (Shanahan); "Teenagers' Full-Time Work and Learning" (Smith); "Preparing Learners and Workplaces in the Effective Use of Flexible Delivery for Workforce Training" (Smith); "Research and Technology--Using Technology in Research--Implications for Researchers and the Researched" (Smyth et al.); "Implementing Training Packages" (Stewart); "Trainee and Apprentice Retention and Attrition in Australia" (Symons, Simons); "Measuring Performance" (Symons); "Workbased Learning as Critical Social Pedagogy" (Wagner, Childs); "Flexibility Through Technology--Lessons from the Field" (Walsh); "Equity in Australian Education and Training" (Watson, Pope); "Three Years Down the Track" (Webb, Gibson); "Best Practice in Managing Diversity in TAFE Distance Learning Centers" (Weeks); "Flexible Delivery Approaches--Evaluating Outcomes and Informing Learning" (Wemyss); "Introduction to the New Zealand Industry Training Sector and the Industry Training Federation" (Williams); "Current and New Research Tools and Techniques in Planning" (Young, Stockdale); "Measuring Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Projects" (Young); and "In Their Own Words" (Zuvich). (YLB)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Diversity (Student), Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, English (Second Language), Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Industrial Training, Job Training, Lifelong Learning, Literacy Education, Longitudinal Studies, Migrant Education, Off the Job Training, On the Job Training, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation, Research and Development, Rural Schools, School Holding Power, Second Language Instruction, Secondary Education, Staff Development, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Technological Advancement, Vocational Education, Volunteer Training
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Locked Bag 70, Alexandria NSW 1435; Web site: http://www.avetra.org.au.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria.
Identifiers - Location: Australia; New Zealand
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