Interpreting competencies in Australian vocational education and training: practices and issues

How vocational education and training (VET) practitioners understand and use competency standards is of fundamental importance to the quality and integrity of the Australian VET system. This small study seeks to address this question by gaining insights from 30 VET practitioners. The research found that VET practitioners have little faith in the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and feel somewhat ill-equipped to interpret competency standards when developing curriculum. Furthermore, the unclear language and 'jargon' contained within the competencies make them hard to decipher. The auth ... Show more

Authors: Hodge, Steven

Published: Adelaide, South Australia, NCVER, 2014

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 30 p.

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