The roles of evaluation for vocational education and training : plain talk on the field of dreams
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The roles of evaluation for vocational education and training : plain talk on the field of dreams
International Labour Office , Kogan Page, 1999
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Vocational education and training
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Bibliography: p. 167-185
Includes index
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Focusing on the why and how of evaluation before judging the results of available evaluations of vocational training, this is a critical appraisal of attitudes and approaches from around the world. Topics include the use and abuse of evaluation results and the shift to work-based learning.
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While it is commonly believed that investment in vocational education and training is worthwhile, as it benefits individuals, enterprises and societies at large, it remains difficult to demonstrate precise returns to such training and scattered evaluations present disparate results. As a consequence, human resource development may lag behind investments which produce more tangible results. This text begins by examining the conceptual issues, then moves on to focus on the why and how of evaluation, and the presenting and judging of available results of evaluations. The discussion takes in the use and abuse of evaluation results in policy-making and the implications for evaluation of trends and issues in VET, such as decentralization, a declining role for the state, a shift towards work-based learning and a continued concern for meeting equity concerns through vocational education and training.
Table of Contents
Introduction !: Conceptiopns of vocational education and training: variety, causaility, and implications for evaluation 2. Why evaluate? The multiple and conflicting purposes underlying evalauation 3: Approaches to evaluation: from the ridiculous to the sublime 4: Evaluation findings 5: Judging evaluation: the limits of the evaluation enterprise 6: From evaluation to policy: the treatment of evaluation evidence in policy-making 7: International developments and their implications for evaluation 8: Conclusions and recommendations: towards a pragmatic perspective on evaluating VET
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