978 Smart moves – more healthy and safe activities in vocational schools

Teacher training for vocational schools in Germany

Identification of Components and Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship of Students in Vocational Colleges and Schools of Gilan

Purpose: Entrepreneurship is the basis and foundation of successful economy and a hope for developing economic systems. Nowadays, engineering students must become engineers with entrepreneurial attitude. Unemployment of graduates of higher education is one of the recent problems of many countries of the world and one basic issue of higher education is development of factors affecting entreprene...

Evaluation of an adoption strategy for a healthy diet programme for lower vocational schools.

This paper describes the evaluation of an adoption strategy for the school-based healthy diet programme Krachtvoer. Health promotion (HP) professionals from five Regional Public Health Services (RPHSs) in The Netherlands were asked to recruit a total of 25 schools to adopt the Krachtvoer programme in accordance with this strategy. Afterwards, they were interviewed about their adherence to and s...

Construction and Validation of Quality of Education in Schools Questionnaire (QESQ) for Vocational High-School Students.

Improve the quality of education is a necessity. Quality education means, the ability to produce quality results, the knowledge, skill and purpose .The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a questionnaire for quality of education in schools. The research was descriptive and psychometric studies. The population consisted of all students in vocational-training high schools in Tehra...

A mixed-method exploration of functioning in Safe Schools/Healthy Students partnerships.

This paper presents a mixed-method approach to measuring the functioning of Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative partnerships. The SS/HS national evaluation team developed a survey to collect partners' perceptions of functioning within SS/HS partnerships. Average partnership functioning scores were used to rank each site from lowest to highest. Sites with the most favorable percepti...