Historically, vocational subjects have been a part of the Australian school curricula for 200 years. In early school curriculum the vocational aspect was considered to be related to the acquisition of manual skills such as domestic science or woodwork, rather than careers. From the 1950s to mid 1980s, vocational education, focused specifically on career and job training, was the responsibility of the technical colleges, which had been established to develop these skills. The concept of high schools targeting identified skills for the future work force, and hence becoming involved in the vocational skill development of youth, developed in the mid 1980s in Australia. Industry influence on governments to make educational decisions based on economic initiatives has increased over this time.Major growth has occurred in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in schools, with student participation rates in vocational education trebling in the past six (6) years (House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Training, 2004). This increase is predicted to continue as VET qualifications and the process of accreditation is improved and becomes increasingly user-friendly (Polesel, 2004). The focus on vocational education and industry needs is recognised as an economic necessity for Australia. Schools and teachers, however, need to balance the demands of industry and government with the holistic educational needs of the youth they are entrusted to teach.The school curriculum currently offers a broad range of subject choices that provide for diverse student needs. However the rapid growth of vocational education in schools has impeded effective reflective practices of current vocational programs. Vocational education is experiencing a boom due to the increasing popularity of vocational subjects. The planning and implementation of the diverse subject offerings at school level is often a response to immediate needs rather than in-depth analysis and evaluation. For this reason, it is timely for a critical analysis of the current Hospitality programs in schools to ensure currency and relevancy of content and implementation.The project was localised to one school to enable an extensive and thorough analysis of the Hospitality program. Marymount College is a co-educational Catholic College of approximately 1050 students. Located in the Gold Coast suburb of Burleigh, Marymount College offers a wide range of VET subjects ranging across the five (5) industry areas of Information Technology, Business, Marine Science, Industrial Skills and Hospitality & Tourism.The aim of the analysis will be to suggest what measures need to be implemented in the programs at Marymount College, Gold Coast, Burleigh, Australia, to ensure best practice in Hospitality vocational education. These measures can be constructively applied to other Queensland schools currently delivering vocational education and Hospitality, or to those schools considering introducing subjects associated with Hospitality.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-99). Also available on the Internet.

While much is known about the achievement of high ability students, much less research has focused on their lower ability peers. In addition, although academic self-concept, locus of control and learning approaches have been demonstrated to be important personal variables that influence learning outcomes, less effort has been made to integrate these variables simultaneously to understand the complexity of low-achievement. The present research aimed to not only identify key causes of the low-achievement of academically disadvantaged students, but also provide appropriate and productive enhancement approaches to foster low-achieving students’ school success by conducting a pioneering longitudinal experimental study particularly in mainland China. The participants were low-achieving junior secondary students who had recently enrolled in Secondary Vocational Education (SVE) in mainland China (total N = 724). It was found that compared with normal- and high-achieving students in mainstream secondary education, students in SVE were characterized with less achieving motives, less internal-oriented control beliefs and particularly lower academic self-concepts. In addition, the academic self-concept of SVE students was found to be the most significant predictor of their academic achievement (p＜ .001) compared with achieving approach (p＜ .05) and locus of control (p＞ .05). These findings, in light of the 3P learning model, revealed the likely major role of academic self-concept in affecting academic achievement among adolescent students in SVE. In particular, Study 2, a comparative study, confirmed that vocational students had the lowest English self-concept of the groups studied. Hence, the focus of Study 3 (a longitudinal intervention) was on English self-concept. By incorporating recent advances in Western feedback enhancement approaches and the construct-validity approach to fully explore the intervention effects, Study 3 demonstrated that the researcher-administered treatments (performance feedback and combined feedback) in natural classroom settings successfully enhanced participants’ English self-concept, the targeted facet. Importantly, both the competence and affect components within the English self-concept of targeted students also gained statistically significant improvements from the two feedback treatments, compared with those of students who received no particular treatment. An interesting finding was that the two feedback treatments appeared similarly significant in changing the competence component of English self-concept. However, the internally-focused performance feedback was less effective in changing the affect component of English self-concept compared with the combined feedback. Non-significant transfer effects were found on untargeted facets of academic self-concept among participants receiving only the performance feedback. A slightly significant transfer effect was found on Chinese self-concept (one control facet) among participants receiving the combined feedback, indicating the power of the combined feedback to influence a facet that is closely related to the targeted facet. The present findings provided important cross-cultural empirical evidence to support sound within-network validity of the feedback intervention in a vocational setting. Impressively, the English achievements of students in both experimental classes also gained statistically significant improvements. Based on key research designs of the present intervention, future implications of the two feedback treatments to cultivate positive academic self-beliefs and enhance learning among vocational and non-vocational secondary school students are discussed. / published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Magistro darbe yra išanalizuoti ir susisteminti įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių mokslinės literatūros šaltiniai apie organizacijos įvaizdžio konstravimo problematiką: įvaizdžio esmę, jo formavimo bei kūrimo principus; organizacijos komunikacijos charakteristikos reikšmę institucijos įvaizdžiui bei organizacijos įvaizdžio formavimo strategijų aspektus. Darbe atskleidžiama Joniškio miesto ir rajonų 10 – 12 klasių mokinių bei jų mokytojų nuomonė apie visuomenėje vyraujantį Joniškio ŽŪM įvaizdį, atskleidžiamas jo turinys ir nustatomas profesinės mokyklos įvaizdžio konstravimo kryptingumas. Patvirtinamos darbo autorės suformuluotos mokslinio tyrimo hipotezės, jog profesinės mokyklos įvaizdis yra operacionalizuojamas ir identifikuojamas konstruktas; profesinės mokyklos įvaizdis yra sąlygiškai neigiamas ir tai, jog perspektyviausia Joniškio ŽŪM įvaizdžio formavimo kryptis – kurti jaukios, saugios, sudarančios galimybių kokybiškai pasirengti profesinei veiklai, laiduojančios galimybę gauti pradinį startą kvalifikuotai darbo vietai gauti, atviros aplinkai, gerai aprūpintos bei profesionalios mokyklos įvaizdį. / This paper analyses and systematises the literature of diverse Lithuanian and foreign authors who discussed the problems arising when constructing the image of an organisation: the essence of image, the principles of its formation and creation; the impact of the communicational characteristic of an organisation on the image of an institution as well as the aspects of the strategies of the organisation's image creation. The paper covers the analysis of the opinions of Joniškis town and its districts' teachers and pupils from 10 and 12 forms about Joniškis Agricultural School’s image. The content of the image is disclosed and the direction of the vocational school's image building is determined. The following hypotheses set forth by the author are substantiated: the image of the vocational school is an operationalised and identified construct; the image of the vocational school is conditionally negative; the most perspective direction for the image creation of Joniškis Agricultural School - to create the image of a cosy, safe, providing possibilities of qualitative preparation for career, ensuring a possibility to gain the start that opens the gates to a qualified job, open to the environment, fully equipped and professional school.

The change of learning motivation and achievements in general education in vocational school The objective of the research: Evaluation of changes in learning motivation and achievements in general education in vocational schools. The tarks of the research: 1. Determining the fects of studying motivation changes in vocational schools. 2. Deseribing the influence of motivation changes on learning achievements. Methods and sources of the research. The research has been fulfilled applying general and special scientific methods as literature analysis, statistical analysis, grouping of research data, generalization and comparison. The data has been processed by SPSS computer programme. The guestionnaire has been chosen as the main research method. The area of the research. The research has been carried out with 196 students and 40 teachers from vocational schools. Conclusions: · The research results showed that about 60% students decided to study in a vocational school, because their studies in a secondary school were not successful. · The research also revealed the fact that the learning achievements of most students at a vocational shool remain almost the same though motivation rises. · The students and the teachers pointed out the factors which should be important in enhancing the motivation to study. They are such as active training methods, validity of assessment system, motivating training material, interest, figurative style and relation with future profession.

Europos šalių socialinių, politinių, ekonominių ir kultūrinių pokyčių vyksmas ir orientavimasis į rinkos dėsniais pagrįstą ūkį lemia permainas ir mūsų šalies profesinio rengimo sistemoje. Lietuvoje profesinis rengimas tampa viena iš prioritetinės veiklos sričių. Siekiant pagerinti profesinio rengimo kokybę, profesinės mokyklos prestižą, būtina išspręsti vieną iš pagrindinių problemų – sukurti patrauklią aplinką, kuri laiduotų ugdymo kokybę. Šiandien profesinių mokyklų tikslas yra ne tik rengti specialistus, gebančius savarankiškai dirbti konkurencingos rinkos sąlygomis, išsiugdžiusius puikias dvasines, dorovines, kultūrines, pilietines savybes, bet ir sukurti patrauklią, saugią, modernią aplinką, geras ugdymo sąlygas, skatinančias nuoširdžius ir demokratiškus mokytojų ir mokinių santykius. Patrauklios aplinkos kūrimas profesinėje rengimo institucijoje – tai nauja, aktuali, teoriniu ir praktiniu aspektais mažai tyrinėta problema. Šiame darbe moksline prasme nauja tai, kad pateikiamas patrauklios aplinkos kūrimo ir tobulinimo modelis, skirtas profesinio ugdymo proceso įgyvendinimui. Tyrimo objektas: patrauklios profesinio ugdymo aplinkos kūrimas. Tyrimo tikslas: Parengti profesinės mokyklos patrauklios aplinkos kūrimo ir tobulinimo modelį. Tyrimo uždaviniai: išanalizuoti aktualias mokslines teorijas ugdymo ir aplinkos ryšio klausimais; aptarti profesinio ugdymo ir aplinkos sampratas; išanalizuoti profesinio ugdymo aplinką lemiančius veiksnius; ištirti pasirinktos profesinio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The process of social, political, economical, cultural changes and the orientation to the economy based on the laws of the market in European countries causes these changes in the system of the vocational training in our country too. It becomes the aprioristic educational activity in Lithuania. The restoration of the independence, the reform of the educational system in Lithuania stimulated the necessity of taking care of the attraction of our vocational training. The new reform of education, its changes reveal new problems: the interaction between training and its environment. Today it is very important to improve the system of the vocational training. It must correspond to the needs and interests of students, teachers and employers.We must create an attractive environment in order to increase the quality of the vocational training. This problem was discusssed some years ago by many scientists. Today it has become more important creating the model of attrative environment of vocational training and improvement. The goal of the vocational schools is not only to train specialists who will be able to work independently under the competitive conditions of the market having moral, cultural, civic, features, but also to create safe and modern environment, good training conditions stimulating perfect relations between students and teachers.The aim of the research is to create the model of the improvement of such environment in the vocational school. We have carried out the... [to full text]

Tinkamas karjeros pasirinkimas dažnai nulemia visapusiškai kokybišką asmens ateitį. Profesijos pasirinkimas yra daugialypis procesas, kurį lemia daugelis veiksnių, kurie skirstomi į vidinius bei išorinius. Šiame darbe apžvelgiama profesijos pasirinkimo proceso samprata, teorijos, analizuojami pagrindiniai profesinės mokyklos mokinių profesijos pasirinkimą įtakojantys veiksniai: savęs pažinimas, vertybės, interesai, gabumai, darbo rinkos tendencijos, aplinka bei joje veikiantys asmenys. Darbo tikslas – išsiaiškinti profesinės mokyklos mokinių profesijos pasirinkimo veiksnius. Siekiant išsamiai atskleisti tyrimo uždavinius, pasirinktas kiekybinis tyrimo metodas – anketinė apklausa. Tyrime iš viso dalyvavo 252 mokiniai, iš Biržų technologijų ir verslo mokymų centro. Jų amžius – 16-52 metai. Tyrimo metu stengtasi nustatyti profesijos pasirinkimo vidinius bei išorinius pasirinkimo veiksnius, profesinės mokyklos privalumus, ugdymo karjerai, profesinio informavimo veiklos mokykloje ypatumus, mokinių ateities planus. Mokslinės literatūros analizė apie profesijos pasirinkimo procesą atskleidė poreikį įvertinti savo norus, galimybes bei darbo rinkos tendencijas. Tik atsižvelgus į tris profesijos pasirinkimo kriterijus: noriu, galiu, reikia, pavyks tinkamai vystyti savo karjeros kelią. Profesiją būtina rinktis racionaliai, sistemingai – įvertinant tiek objektyvius (vidinius), tiek subjektyvius (išorinius) profesijos pasirinkimo veiksnius. / A proper carrier choice usually has an effect on a person’s stable future. A carrier choice is a multiple process, which is influenced by many factors, subdivided into internal and external. The present research paper reviews the process of carrier choice, theories, analyses the main factors influencing carrier choice of vocational school students: self-cognition, values, interests, capabilities, labour market tendencies, the atmosphere and the persons in it. The aim of the paper – to figure out the factors for carrier choice of vocational school students. In order to fulfil thoroughly the tasks of the paper, the quantitative research method was chosen, mainly – a questionnaire. The research sample consisted of 252 students from Biržai Technology and Business Training Centre. Their age is varied – 16-52 years old. The research aimed to define the internal and external carrier choice factors, the advantages the vocational school offers, the peculiarities of carrier training and professional information at the school, the future plans of students. The scientific literature analysis on the process of carrier choice, gave an impulse to evaluate oneself wishes, possibilities and labour market tendencies. Given the three carrier choice criteria – I wish, I can, I must – one will succeed in properly developing his/her carrier path. The carrier must be chosen with consideration, systematically, having evaluated both subjective (internal) and objective (external) factors of carrier... [to full text]

Thesis (M.P.H.M. (Primary Health Care Management))--Mahidol University, 2007. / LICL has E-Thesis 0024 ; please contact computer services.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 92-97).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-97). Also available in print.