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National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
"Research Messages 2021" highlights the diverse range of research activities undertaken over the past year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). In 2021, research was shaped both by the VET (vocational education and training) reform agenda, and issues emerging from the pandemic. The 2021 national VET research…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Job Training
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Robbins, Joy; Firth, Amanda; Evans, Maria – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2018
Work based assessment (WBA) is a common but contentious practice increasingly used to grade university students on professional degrees. A key issue in WBA is the potentially low assessment literacy of the assessors, which can lead to a host of unintended results, including grade inflation. We identified grade inflation in the WBA of the clinical…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Weighted Scores, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Freeberg, Norman E.; Shimberg, Benjamin – 1976
A battery of tests dealing with attitudinal, reasoning and job-orientation skills were predictively validated against trainee performance criterion information obtained at completion of the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) manpower training program and at approximately six to eight months following training. Validity coefficients based…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Guidance, Cognitive Tests, Disadvantaged
Freeberg, Norman E.; Reilly, Richard G. – 1972
Correlations between the Enrollee Test Battery (ETB) and performance on more conventional tests were examined to determine the ETB validity, in addition to a small-Scale study of predictive validity of both ETB and the conventional tests. Three types of paper and pencil measures were utilized: the ETB, conventional cognitive skills tests, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Black Youth, Cognitive Tests
Seyfarth, John T.; And Others – 1973
The report analyzes the values of the Career Development Inventory (CDI) as a means of assessing the vocational maturity of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The test instrument measures attitudinal and cognitive skills which correspond with program goals, and was…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Freeberg, Norman E. – 1974
A battery of tests, designed expressly for use in assessment of disadvantaged adolescents enrolled in youth-work training programs, was validated predictively against both short-term (program completion) and longer-term (post-program) behavioral outcome dimensions. Measures of the battery displayed their best validities with such longer-term…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged