ERIC Number: ED456252
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2001-Mar
Pages: 925
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Research to Reality: Putting VET Research To Work. Proceedings of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) Conference (4th, Adelaide, Australia, March 28-30, 2001).
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria.
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of learning organizations; school noncompleters' outcomes in VET; increasing disabled students' participation in VET; VET management; bringing research and policy development together; innovative and flexible approaches to training package implementation; online support for VET clients; work-based learning; self-determined learning in the workplace; quality control and employability; using statistical software to interpret educational research; moving from andragogy to heutagogy in VET; drivers of learning cultures within organizations; VET practices in foreign countries; action research as action learning; challenges facing TAFE teachers; urban disadvantage and provider equity strategies; factors preventing uptake of apprenticeships and traineeships among secondary school adolescents; literacy and first-line management; performance level assessment; linkages between adult continuing education and VET; using training indicators to improve VET planning; student experiences of generic competency learning; managing the transformation to an e-learning organization; learning from small enterprise structured work placements; and using research to inform business and strategic decisions. Many papers include substantial bibliographies. (MN)
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Dropout Research, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Information Technology, Job Placement, Labor Force Development, Models, National Programs, Outcomes of Education, Partnerships in Education, Policy Formation, Postsecondary Education, Research and Development, Research Utilization, School Business Relationship, Secondary Education, Staff Development, Statistical Analysis, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Training, Transfer of Training, Universities, Vocational Education, Womens Education, Work Experience Programs, Workplace Literacy
AVETRA Conference Proceedings, Locked Bag 70, Alexandria, New South Wales 1435, Australia ($39.95 Australian). For full text: http://www.avetra.org.au/confarchives.htm.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria.
Identifiers - Location: Australia; China; Germany; Japan; New Zealand; United Kingdom (Great Britain); United States
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