The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the development of student knowledge in Pre-Vocational Secondary Education schools which differ in the manner and extent to which they have implemented characteristics of competence-based education. The implementation of these characteristics was examined …

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations between goal orientations, information processing strategies and development of conceptual knowledge of pre-vocational secondary education students (n=719; 14 schools). Student preferences for certain types of goals and information processing strategies …

Dutch prevocational secondary schools are reforming their educational programmes to make them more competence-based. This reform has substantial implications for the roles played by teachers. Yet, little empirical research has been conducted on teachers' processes of competence development in vocational …

This article aims to provide an insight into how students construct their professional knowledge and what the content and nature of personal professional knowledge is through the concept of PPTs (personal professional theories).

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In dit paper wordt het actor-centered institutionalism model toegepast om onderzoek te kunnen doen naar flexicurity startegieën. Eerst wordt het actor-centered institutionalism model van Renate Maynt, Frits Scharf en anderen samengevat; daarna wordt geschetst hoe dit model kan worden gebuikt om t.a.v. …

The purpose of this study is to gain insight in the development of student knowledge in PVSE-schools that differ in the way and extent in which they are implementing characteristics of competence-based education. The implementation of these characteristics was examined by means of a questionnaire.The …

This study explores the psychometric properties of three instruments: a semi-structured interview, a questionnaire and a sorting task. The central question is which instrument is most suitable to investigate the goal orientations of students in competence-based Pre-Vocational Secondary Education. The …

This book is about markets for intermediate skills. It is also about the coordination within and between the (vocational) education system and the (sub-baccalaureate) labor market, and the institutions that govern them. Our goal was to improve our understanding of how particular governance regimes influence …