From Diagnostics to Learning Success

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Basic Research Concepts in VET

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Defining a Learning Theory Linked to Instructional Theory

      • Robert D. Tennyson

      Pages 3-10

   3. Universities as a Place of Self-Regulated Vocational Education and Training

      • Marold Wosnitza, Kerstin Helker, Balthasar Eugster

      Pages 11-23

   4. Trainability, Vocational Skills and Employability

      • Jürgen van Buer, Gritt Fehring

      Pages 25-43

3. Content, Objectives and Outcomes of VET

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Professional Role Requirements and Universal Morals

      • Klaus Beck

      Pages 47-59

   3. Situationism in Business Education – Are Situations the Smallest Didactical Units?

      • Thomas Bienengräber

      Pages 61-73

   4. Basic Competencies as Determinants of Success in Commercial Apprenticeships

      • Susan Seeber, Rainer Lehmann

      Pages 75-83

   5. Assessing the Value of Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, Motivation and Emotion from a Pedagogical and an Economic Perspective

      • Fritz Klauser, Juliana Schlicht

      Pages 85-98

4. Methods of Instruction in VET

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. What Can Research on Technology for Learning in Vocational Educational Training Teach Media Didactics?

      • Stefanie A. Hillen

      Pages 101-113

   3. Technical Discussions as Supportive Interventions in the Process of Constructivist Teaching and Learning

      • Alfred Riedl, Andreas Schelten

      Pages 115-126

   4. Social Media

      • H. -Hugo Kremer

      Pages 127-140

   5. The Inferential Construction of Knowledge in the Domain of Business and Economics

      • Gerhard Minnameier

      Pages 141-156

   6. Work-Study Programs for the Formation of Professional Skills

      • Wim J. Nijhof, Cindy Poortman

      Pages 157-167

   7. Improving the Professional Competence of Low-Achieving Apprentices

      • Kerstin Norwig, Cordula Petsch, Reinhold Nickolaus

      Pages 169-182

5. Diagnostics and Assessment in VET

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Structuring and Detecting Competence

      • Andreas Frey, Jean-Jacques Ruppert

      Pages 185-198

   3. Non-Cognitive Facets of Competence

      • Detlef Sembill, Andreas Rausch, Kristina Kögler

      Pages 199-211

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 22state-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.

• competencies
• didactics
• employability
• learning
• vocational education

• Chair of Business and Economics Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

  Klaus Beck

• Chair of Business Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

  Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

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