An Assessment of Workplace Skills Acquired by Students of Vocational and Technical Education Institutions

Autor/inn/en	Bakar, Ab Rahim; Mohamed, Shamsiah; Hamzah, Ramlah
Titel	An Assessment of Workplace Skills Acquired by Students of Vocational and Technical Education Institutions
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 6 (2013) 11, S.15-20 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; Job Skills; Industrial Training; Technical Institutes; Trainees; Vocational Education; Measures (Individuals); Demography; Student Characteristics; Statistical Distributions; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Produktive Fertigkeit; Betriebliche Berufsausbildung; Gewerblich-industrielle Ausbildung; Industriebetriebslehre; Technische Fakultät; Auszubildender; Weibliche Auszubildende; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Messdaten; Demografie; Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung
Abstract	This study was performed to identify the employability skills of technical students from the Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) and Indigenous People's Trust Council (MARA) Skills Training Institutes (IKM) in Malaysia. The study sample consisted of 850 final year trainees of IKM and ITI. The sample was chosen by a random sampling procedure from a population of 2520 students from both institutions. Trainees' employability skills were measured using a 40 item questionnaire adapted from the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report. In general, the majority of the trainees possessed a moderate level of employability skills (Mean = 3.88, S.D = 0.49). Their basic skills were at the moderate level (Mean = 3.83, S.D = 0.9); thinking skills (Mean = 3.73, S.D = 0.56); source skills (Mean = 3.83, S.D = 0.57); informational (Mean = 3.61, S.D = 0.76); interpersonal (Mean = 3.92, S.D = 0.57); technical and system skills (Mean = 3.81, S.D = 0.67); and self-qualities (Mean = 4.14, S.D = 0.55). There were no significant differences of employability skills between trainees from IKM and ITI in term of gender, work experience, and between courses. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01