Parental involvement and educational success among vulnerable students in vocational education and training

Vocational education and training

Supervisors and teachers’ influence on expectations on empowering leadership among students in vocational education and training

Background Empowering leadership and occupational safety Globally, the number of fatal occupational accidents in 2003 were estimated to 360,000 (Hämäläinen et al. 2009). The construction industry is one of the worst affected occupational sectors; among European construction workers 4.8% reported one or more accidental injuries in 2007 (Eurostat 2010). Traditionally, occupational safety has been...

The Relationship between Personality Traits, Parental Involvement in their Children's Education, and Students’ Academic Motivation

The Relationship between Personality Traits, Parental Involvement in their Children's Education, and Students’ Academic Motivation   S.M. Pourseyed, Ph.D. [1] M. Fouladchang, Ph.D. [2] S.R. Pourseyed, Ph.D. [3]   The present research sought to examine the relationship between personality traits, parental involvement in their children's education, and students’ academic motivation. The stat...

Quality indicators in vocational education and training

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...