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<p>The article presents an analysis of the results of a survey conducted in 2022 among students and young graduates of three vocational education courses, studying in EU countries (<italic>N</italic> = 428). The area of research concerns the awareness of competencies sought-after by employers and the self-assessed level of these competencies. The authors used tests of the equality of two means in order to check for differences in assessments according to the respondents’ metric characteristics, and also factor analysis to check for similarities in attitudes towards different types of competencies in the respondents’ assessments. Finding such similarities would allow to use a summative scale and reduce the dimensions.</p>
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The article presents an analysis of the results of a survey conducted in 2022 among students and young graduates of three vocational education courses, studying in EU countries (N = 428). The area of research concerns the awareness of competencies sought-after by employers and the self-assessed level of these competencies. The authors used tests of the equality of two means in order to check for differences in assessments according to the respondents’ metric characteristics, and also factor analysis to check for similarities in attitudes towards different types of competencies in the respondents’ assessments. Finding such similarities would allow to use a summative scale and reduce the dimensions.

The Vocational Education Sector in Relation to Labour Market Expectations. The Analysis of the Results of an International Student Survey

Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Econometrics

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The article presents an analysis of the results of a survey conducted in 2022 among students and young graduates of three vocational education courses,...

The Vocational Education Sector in Relation to Labour Market Expectations. The Analysis of the Results of an International Student Survey

Data publikacji: 10 lis 2022

Zakres stron: 35 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2022.3.03

Słowa kluczowe
vocational education, the importance of competence, self-assessment of the level of competence, questionnaire research, statistical analyses

© 2022 Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The Vocational Education Sector in Relation to Labour Market Expectations. The Analysis of the Results of an International Student Survey

Data publikacji: 10 lis 2022

Zakres stron: 35 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2022.3.03

Słowa kluczowevocational education, the importance of competence, self-assessment of the level of competence, questionnaire research, statistical analyses

© 2022 Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
vocational education, the importance of competence, self-assessment of the level of competence, questionnaire research, statistical analyses