What is formative education in modern secondary vocational education?

Support in self-assessment in secondary vocational education

For students to become prepared for the workplace, the skill of students to assess themselves is of larger long-term significance than the specific professional competences they acquire. This paper discusses the role of providing support to the students in the form of information on the relevance of the assessment criteria on their self-assessment skills. It is hypothesized that students are mo...

Targeted In-Depth Assessment of Promising Practices in Secondary Vocational Education— What

This paper concentrates on a strategy that uses schoolwide data to identify secondary schools where students’ academic achievement has been improving at a relatively fast rate, and other schools where it has not. Schools with the most involvement in vocational education can be selected from the group where achievement is increasing relatively fast, and from the group where it is not. These two ...

Vocational education and training

Evidence on the returns to secondary vocational education

Vocational education in high schools has frequently been stigmatized as an anachronistic, dead-end path for students. We use data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988 to examine claims that students on a vocational track would benefit from a more academically rigorous education. Clearly, selection bias confounds attempts to untangle the effects of academic tracking on income ...

Career Guidance and Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training