Technical and vocational education quality and employability skills: a study of stakeholders ' views in Iran
Subject Areas : Special
ebrahim
salehi omran
1
anahita
ghasemzadeh
2
Keywords: echnical and vocational education, employability skills, stakeholders, quality,
Abstract :
The goal is here to study the views of technical and vocational stakeholder in order to introduce general skill needed in the labor market to improve the quality of these trainings .This study is a kind of descriptive survey and its population consists of three groups of stakeholder of technical and vocational education as follows: trainers, founders of private institutes, and industry owners. According to theoretical fundamentals and global studies, components of general skills were extracted and subcategories of each component were determined separately and based on that, a questionnaire were prepared and after ensuring the validity and reliability necessary information were gathered .For analyzing the data, Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and Structural equation modeling were used with the help of SPSS and Lisrel software. Results showed all components are positively associated with the quality of technical and vocational education, components of specialized knowledge and scientific skills have less contribution of this correlation rather than other general skills components and it can be concluded that in the three stakeholders’ point of view, general skills components related to the quality of technical and vocational education are more important. Moreover, in the three groups same point of view, based on the results of multiple regressions and structural equation modeling, the priority has been reported as follows: 1-Commitment and responsibility skills 2-Communicationand teamwork skills 3-Creativityand problem solving skills 4-Planning and organizing activities skills 5-Usingcomputational up to date techniques and technology skills Finally, based on the three groups’ point of view, a new definition has been presented for the quality of technical and vocational education: Integration of general skills in order of priority listed above with specialized skills in each training course.