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VET Program Completion Rates: An Evaluation of the Current Method. Occasional Paper
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National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
This work asks one simple question: "how reliable is the method used by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) to estimate projected rates of VET program completion?" In other words, how well do early projections align with actual completion rates some years later? Completion rates are simple to calculate with a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Using Peer Assessment of Fieldwork to Enhance Students' Practical Training
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El-Mowafy, Ahmed – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
Fieldwork training is a key component of several practical disciplines. In this study, students' peer assessment of fieldwork is explored as a method to improve their practical training. Peer assessment theories are first discussed. A framework for peer assessment of fieldwork is proposed, and the steps taken for preparation of students for this…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Field Experience Programs, Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students
Click or Clique? Using Educational Technology to Address Students' Anxieties about Peer Evaluation
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Walker, Ruth; Barwell, Graham – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
Peer bias is recognised as a primary factor in negative student perceptions of peer assessment strategies. This study trialled the use of classroom response systems, widely known as clickers, in small seminar classes in order to actively engage students in their subject's assessment process while providing the anonymity that would lessen the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Peer Evaluation, Audience Response Systems, Focus Groups
Annual National Report of the Australian Vocational Education and Training System, 1999. Volume 3: Vocational Education & Training Performance.
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Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 2000
This three-volume report provides a comprehensive picture of the vocational education and training (VET) system in Australia, its key policies, initiatives undertaken, and achievements during 1999. This publication contains volume 3, which presents a detailed statistical report against the key performance measures for the VET system. Volumes 1 and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Data Analysis, Developed Nations
International Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training.
Freeland, Brett – 2000
This report, which is based primarily on figures released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reviews the indicators available for international comparisons of vocational education and training (VET) to clarify the following issues: the kinds of comparability problems that exit, their extent and severity, their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Using Training Indicators To Improve Planning for Vocational Education and Training.
Saunders, S. – 2001
Training indicators are functional suites of quantitative and qualitative indicators of current or future vocational education and training (VET) supply and demand. The training indicators approach to educational planning considers indicators of present and likely future conditions for skilled labor and forms judgments about the most appropriate…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis