Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Background: 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 medical assistants in Germany, that these skills have to be assessed in an occupa…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Background: 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 offer authentic situations, similar to real-life (working) situations. Whether d…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Background: 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 social integration, especially a positive apprentice-trainer relationship and work …
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Purpose: 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 analyzing mechanisms and actions addressing the female gender in gender-atypical caree…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Background: 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 molecular structures/chemical substances (i.e. biochemistry) as well as cell cul…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2016)
Background: To measure higher-order outcomes of vocational education and training (VET) we developed a computer-based assessment of domain-specific problemsolving competence. In modeling problem-solving competence, we distinguish four components of competence: (1) knowledge application, (2) metacogn…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
Background: 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 problems and dissatisfaction with the training experience, more VET specific ex…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
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 regional socio-economic contextual settings young adults are embedded in. We apply this approach t…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
Background: 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' professional well-being. In this framework, a growing interest has been observed in th…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
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 theoretical models (e.g., basic deep structure dimensions of instructional quality, self-enha…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
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 market. The data are from three cohorts of the Dutch VE Monitor, a survey of VE graduates 18 mon…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2015)
Background: 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 examined in the current study. The teacher training systems of business and econ…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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 promoting alternative pathways into further education and/or employment. This paper…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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-educational training (VET). Attributes of self-regulation and self-regulatory s…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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 tradition, there is a paucity of studies investigating the effects of the ongoi…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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 two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) representations. Previous stud…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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 countries. The construction program is thereby also a part of this market. Given …
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
'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 between labor turnover and firms' dedication to continuing vocational training (CVT) exploiting n…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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 essentially have two choices to meet their labour demands: to provide their own appren…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2014)
Background: 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. Methods: We conduct a time series on Western German data from 1970 to 2011 and construct a panel d…
