Designing and delivering skills transferability and employment mobility: the challenges of a market-driven vocational education and training system     

Victor Gekara  Darryn Snell 《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2018,70(1):107-129

As job security declines and precarious employment arrangements become more prevalent, transferable skills have become vital for job seeking success. In recognition of this issue, many governments are seeking to redesign their training systems in ways that transferable skills become better emphasised. This paper examines the challenges of developing transferable skills among a nation’s workforce and the tensions that can emerge between training design intentions and training delivery outcomes when training delivery is marketised. Australia, where incremental training sector reforms have occurred since the late 1980s, serves as the context for this study. While training design occurs through a tripartite process involving employer, government and union representatives, training delivery is now determined in an open, deregulated market environment. Our analysis reveals a complex underlying design with an in-built intention of developing widely transferable skills, yet there exists significant concern about the actual training outcomes. We conclude that in an environment where VET delivery is user-choice driven with the aim of fulfilling specific employer skills needs the quality, depth and breadth of transferable skills are compromised.  相似文献   

Building community bonds,bridges, and linkages to promote the career readiness of high school students in the United States     

Victor M. Hernandez-Gantes  Sasha Keighobadi  Edward C. Fletcher Jr. 《Journal of Education & Work》2018,31(2):190-203

The career readiness of high school students has been a longstanding issue that has received renewed attention in recent years. To document an approach to promoting career readiness in the United States, we conducted an exploratory case study of a distinguished information technology career academy. Using the premises of capital building as a frame of reference, we found a community who viewed career readiness as a form of investment in human capital development. As such, a network of business partners collaborated with academy staff in providing school- and work-based learning opportunities for academy students. This approach was complemented by an emphasis on the development of social capital with social bonds, bridges, and linkages in place to sustain the network identity and development.  相似文献   

Caffeine ingestion changes time-motion and technical-tactical aspects in simulated boxing matches: A randomized double-blind PLA-controlled crossover study     

Victor Silveira Coswig  Paulo Gentil  Francine Irigon  Fabrício Boscolo Del Vecchio 《European Journal of Sport Science》2018,18(7):975-983

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Evidence-based biomedical research in Sub-Saharan Africa: how library and information science professionals contribute to systematic reviews and meta-analyses     

Toluwase Victor Asubiaro  Elueze Isioma 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2022,110(1):72

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Getting Better Faster: Accelerating Learning and Improvement     

Victor R. Dingus  Russell Justice 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1993,6(3):28-34

Acquiring process knowledge and skills and transferring technology into and across the organization creates a distinctive competitive advantage. A world-class methodology that accelerates improvement is presented. This methodology is proven effective in manufacturing and service industries, various government agencies and educational institutions. The process of planning and accelerating improvement using an integrated, self-evident set of principles distinguishes between mediocrity and excellence. This approach through systematic application results in more depth and breadth of process learning and facilitates greater acceptance of new thinking and using the latest technology. Our findings through this approach demonstrate that a pathway to continuous improvement can be achieved; thus, unbounded performance levels exist. Since improvement is always a people business, the model also enables each person to attain a greater sense of accomplishment, to acquire skills and knowledge that serve our lives and achieve our goals with a greater sense of confidence and hope.  相似文献   

Cross‐time attitudes,concept formation,and achievement in college freshman physics     

Victor L. Willson  Cheryl Ackerman  Cesar Malave 《科学教学研究杂志》2000,37(10):1112-1120

The relationships among science and engineering attitude, physics conceptual understanding, and physics achievement were explored for a population of college freshman engineering students over two semesters. Gender and SAT‐Quantitative measures were included as exogenous variables in a longitudinal path analysis. Attitude was theorized to predict achievement contemporaneously and at the next time point, while conceptual understanding was theorized to predict physics achievement contemporaneously and at the next time point. Each at one time was theorized to predict scores at the next time. A sample of 200 freshman engineering students participating in an integrated curriculum were assessed in September, December, and April (with a loss of 64 students) with the Force Concepts Inventory (FCI), Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT), and a locally developed attitude measure. The observed model indicated that the FCI predicted attitude at time 1 with no other paths between them, that FCI at time 1 predicted MBT at time 1 and time 2, FCI at time 2 predicted MBT at time 3, and MBT at time 1 predicted FCI at time 2. Gender and SAT‐Quantitative scores were predictive only of FCI and MBT at time 1. Results supported an interactive model of conceptual understanding and achievement, with attitude largely irrelevant to the process for this population. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 37: 1112–1120, 2000  相似文献   

Guest editorial: Global science literacy: An earth system view     

Victor J. Mayer 《科学教学研究杂志》1997,34(2):101-105

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A polymeric micro-optical interface for flow monitoring in biomicrofluidics     

Francesca Sapuppo  Andreu Llobera  Florinda Schembri  Marcos Intaglietta  Victor J. Cadarso    Maide Bucolo 《Biomicrofluidics》2010,4(2)

We describe design and miniaturization of a polymeric optical interface for flow monitoring in biomicrofluidics applications based on polydimethylsiloxane technology, providing optical transparency and compatibility with biological tissues. Design and ray tracing simulation are presented as well as device realization and optical analysis of flow dynamics in microscopic blood vessels. Optics characterization of this polymeric microinterface in dynamic experimental conditions provides a proof of concept for the application of the device to two-phase flow monitoring in both in vitro experiments and in vivo microcirculation investigations. This technology supports the study of in vitro and in vivo microfluidic systems. It yields simultaneous optical measurements, allowing for continuous monitoring of flow. This development, integrating a well-known and widely used optical flow monitoring systems, provides a disposable interface between live mammalian tissues and microfluidic devices making them accessible to detection∕processing technology, in support or replacing standard intravital microscopy.  相似文献   

Uncommon commons: rethinking affects,practices, and spaces of urban activism in Asia     

Lu Pan  Hyunjoon Shin 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2018,19(3):355-358

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Halls of Fame: An American Phenomenon     

Victor J. Danilov 《Curator: The Museum Journal》1986,29(4):245-258

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