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Lin Wei; Bung-On Sereerat; Saifon Songsiengchai; Phenporn Thongkumsuk – World Journal of Education, 2024
The research objectives were (1) to study the factors affecting the development of hope of college freshman students in Guangxi International Business Vocational College. (2) to develop curriculum based on the happiness theory. (3) to compare the hopes of college freshman students before and after learning by curriculum based on the happiness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Business Schools, Vocational Education
Guadagni, Donald; Xu, Ziming – Online Submission, 2021
This paper outlines and details historical L2 curriculum development for segments of China's State education system over a ten-year period beginning with the start of the Sino -- Foreign joint programs classes in 2011. A two-year post assessment from 2015-2017. Tracking students continuing test results for both the CET (College English Test)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Guadagni, Donald – Online Submission, 2015
This instructional paper examines the lack of L2 English skills demonstrated by Chinese post-secondary education students and the results of empiric testing to determine what key language functions were missing from a student's tool box when exiting their primary education phase.The identification of these skills and ability gaps allowed for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Total Quality Management, English (Second Language)
Gunning, Dennis; Raffe, David – London Review of Education, 2011
This article reviews recent policies for 14-19 learning in Wales and Scotland, and discusses the extent to which these policies have diverged from England following parliamentary devolution in 1999. It distinguishes different types of divergence and suggests that many policy differences have not been about major issues of educational philosophy or…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Objectives
Pilz, Matthias; Li, Jun – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article compares the pre-vocational education curriculum plans in lower-secondary schools in Germany and Mainland China, and their implementation. Choosing the curricula of certain school types in two selected regions in both countries, this research first carries out a content analysis of the curriculum plans, using the criteria developed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Berner, Boel – Journal of Education and Work, 2010
This article discusses forms of "boundary-work" in school-based training for industrial work or, put another way, discourse and practices that cross, blur or reinforce boundaries between school and industry. The discussion builds on two ethnographic studies, one conducted in the 1980s and one in 2006, to provide insights on continuity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, School Business Relationship, Ethnography
Priest, Annie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on the quality and accessibility of underpinning knowledge in competency-based training. It uses the Vocational Graduate Certificate and the Vocational Graduate Diploma in Education Design in a Queensland TAFE [technical and further education] institute to examine how the "traditional"…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Competence, Training, Foreign Countries
Nelson, Hilding E. – Amer Vocat J, 1969
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Finlayson, Jean, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Materials are presented from a seminar that brought together practicing German and British educationalists to compare the differing curriculum decisions and implementation processes in England and Wales with those in the Federal Republic of Germany. A foreword provides the objectives, methods, and funding bodies. Section 2 is a comparative…
Descriptors: Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Conference Proceedings, Curriculum

Putnam, A. R. – Journal of Epsilon Pi Tau, 1992
Responses from industrial arts/technology education state supervisors from all states but Michigan showed the greatest technology education implementation and human adaptive systems orientation in the east central and midwest regions and more vocational orientation in the southeast and northeast. Teacher associations were important change agents.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Differences
Gardner, David C.; Beatty, Grace Joely – 1979
A pilot study was conducted to investigate the relationship between preferred incentives for participation in curriculum projects and the change orientation of teachers. The subjects were 96 teachers from a Northern New England community. The "Teacher Opinion Survey" on preferred incentives was found to have a test-retest reliability of .98 and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Wisconsin State Employment Service, Madison. – 1970
In this project, five alternative methods of forecasting labor supply and demand in an urban labor market were compared in order to determine the optimal method for supplying labor market information to public vocational education systems. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin SMSA was chosen as the site of the project. The project determined the extent to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Employment Opportunities
German Federal Inst. for Vocational Training Affairs, Berlin (Germany). – 1996
Representatives from 13 Central and Eastern European countries, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development met for 2 days in Berlin to continue European Training Foundation (ETF) efforts to design a methodology for formulating standards in vocational training (VT)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Conferences
Camaren, R. James; And Others – 1975
A statewide census of all Colorado's handicapped citizens led to a research project which was designed to assess the vocational education and service needs of Colorado's handicapped youth and develop guidelines to modify and improve the existing secondary vocational programs to meet these needs. After collecting the data (primarily by survey), a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities
Marklund, Sixten – 1986
The forms of coordination between general and vocational education, including the vocationalization of education, have only become a general issue of school policy during the postwar years. Vocationalization can occur at different levels, and includes making individuals aware of their future roles in the world of work, informing individuals about…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change