65.078 - "Context Matters!" Antecedences of Vocational Education and Training Competencies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session aims at enhancing research on conceptualizing competencies in vocational education and training (VET) for modelling, developing and measuring competent workplace behavior. As there is growing recognition within competence research for the importance of context, we map out the diversity of antecedences of VET-competencies determined by multiple contexts. The presenters show how authentic tests of VET-competencies measure ecologically validly. By empirical studies the papers demonstrate that individual prerequisites (interest, emotions, career aspirations) as well as organizational and regional factors (like institutional training settings, firm size) are decisive influencing context factors on VET-competencies – going far beyond pure cognitive factors: context matters! These insights provide fruitful hints for further research on VET-competence and its conversion into practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Workplace Learning

Chair

• Frank Achtenhagen, University of Goettingen

Papers

• Professional Competence in Context: A Conceptual Study - Martin Mulder, Wageningen University

• Creating Context and Ensuring Authenticity in Scenarios for Measuring Domain-Specific Problem-Solving Competences - Kristina Koegler, University Frankfurt am Main; Andreas Rausch, University of Bamberg; Eveline Wuttke, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University; Juergen Seifried, University of Mannheim; Julia Warwas

• The Conflict Between Intrapreneurial Intention and Intrapreneurial Competence: An Analysis of Influence of Antecedences - Sandra Bley, Ludwig-Maximilians. University Munich; Susanne D.E. Weber, University of Munich

• The Impact of Training Settings on Competence Development in the Area of Health Care - Susan Seeber, University of Goettingen

Discussant

• Leonard George Cairns, Monash University