From Diagnostics to Learning Success

Proceedings in Vocational Education and Training

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Accelerated substantial progress regarding many fields of production and services imposes pressure upon the labor market. Employers are desperately looking for skilled workers in nearly all technological fields. All over the world this pressure reaches the national systems of vocational education and training. Along with the output orientation turn new standards are imposed, forcing firms and schools to make every endeavor to improve and remodel their programs as well as their practices to reach more and more ambitious goals. To be successful they need the results of scientific research from which they demand reliable information on methods to diagnose the state and learning progress of students and on means to foster and promote competencies of heterogeneous groups of leaners. The book offers 22 state-of-the-art articles covering the central fields of vocational education and training and reporting on new and adequate ways to deal with these challenges.

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Defining a Learning Theory Linked to Instructional Theory
A Fusion of German and American Approaches
Pages: 1–10
Trainability, Vocational Skills and Employability
Different Stories Relating to Basic Skills and Work Virtues?
Pages: 25–43
Improving the Professional Competence of Low-Achieving Apprentices
How to Use Diagnostics for Successful Training
Pages: 169–182
Non-Cognitive Facets of Competence
Theoretical Foundations and Implications for Measurement
Pages: 199–211
Diagnostic Competence of (Prospective) Teachers in Vocational Education
An Analysis of Error Identification in Accounting Lessons
Pages: 225–240
Evaluation – Reform – Advancement?
The Example of the Swiss New Business Education
Pages: 255–268
Teachers’ Evidence-Based Actions
A Comparison of Different School Types
Pages: 281–294
Educational Researchers and their students
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