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Stress Management For Teachers In Vocational Education And Training Sector, Gloria, Ching Wah Chan Aug 2000

Stress Management For Teachers In Vocational Education And Training Sector, Gloria, Ching Wah Chan

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Much of the stress of teaching is related to problem behaviour in the classrooms. The most effective way of managing behavioural problems is to prevent them from arising, and to minimize their occurrence. The focus is the teacher's ability and willingness to create a successful learning situation appropriate to the student's needs. Essentially, stress can be a challenging, exciting stimulus to personal growth, whilst excessive stress can prove damaging to psychological and physical health because it often triggers emotional and physical strain that may be harmful. So, people are motivated to cope with stress. However, the reactions to stress and …

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Contingency Theory Is Of Little Value In Helping Leaders Or Potential Leaders To Perform Successfully, Eric Cheng Aug 2000

Contingency Theory Is Of Little Value In Helping Leaders Or Potential Leaders To Perform Successfully, Eric Cheng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Contingency Theory does not provide a recipe to problems, but some argue that it could provide an action list. I am going to discuss the Contingency Theory of leadership in the light of whether it enhances performance. Contingency Theory is one that if we know which particular leadership style in a particular situation is more appropriate, the leader will adjust his behaviour to the situation in order to enhance performance, subordinate's job satisfaction, etc. The beginning section of the essay will be devoted to a literature review and a discussion on the theoretical framework on the three approaches of the …

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Continuing Professional Development Towards Employee Empowerment In Manpower Training: A New Domain Of Organisational Strategy, Joseph S.L. Yip Aug 2000

Continuing Professional Development Towards Employee Empowerment In Manpower Training: A New Domain Of Organisational Strategy, Joseph S.L. Yip

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In response to the growing complexity and dynamics of global environment, the key to success is to encourage employee to be responsible for the success or failure of the enterprise. The process for securing that employee involvement and creating change is employee empowerment. This paper provides an overview of the employee empowerment considerations pressing upon the managers’ attitude and proposes an overall empowerment process management model and training curriculum in effective quality service delivery. It also reports on a case study investigating the current and potential existence, implementation and levels of training in empowering management styles in ten international property …

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Attitude Of Gaming Employees Towards Problem Gambling: How It Affects Their Learning At An Awareness Training, Lisa M. Bybee Aug 2000

Attitude Of Gaming Employees Towards Problem Gambling: How It Affects Their Learning At An Awareness Training, Lisa M. Bybee

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The purpose of this study: Analyze the efficacy of a problem gambling training class to train adult learners and determine whether the attitude of this sample towards problem gambling affects their ability to learn about this issue. A survey instrument was designed by the author. The researcher used frequency distribution, crosstabulations, and linear regression to analyze the collected data. The survey sample consisted of adult gaming employees in Las Vegas who attended compulsory problem gambling awareness training.

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Integrating The Strengths Of The Web-Based And Traditional Models Of Teaching, T.Y. Leung, Sarah Y.S. Tran Aug 2000

Integrating The Strengths Of The Web-Based And Traditional Models Of Teaching, T.Y. Leung, Sarah Y.S. Tran

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate and created new paradigms for innovation in education. This paper discusses the pedagogical issues conforming to constructivism that educators may consider in the delivery of instruction in post-secondary vocational education. The roles of both the students and teachers must be redefined in the new paradigm. An intellectually exciting learning experience can happen in a classroom, a laboratory or the cyberspace. The art of combining the strengths of classroom face-to-face teaching and Web-based self-directed instruction will be a challenge to educators. In addition to management support and a fair reward system as drivers …

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How To Teach Students In The Information Era?, K.C. Chu Aug 2000

How To Teach Students In The Information Era?, K.C. Chu

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a way to help students to think and make use of suitable information to solve their problem. However, direct import of the typical PBL model may not be appropriate to local student. This study focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of previous PBL model used and studying the effect of modified PBL model in a Higher Diploma engineering course in the HKIVE(TY). This modified PBL model uses a variety of teaching and learning modes to facilitate students to solve the real world cases. Promising results gathered from summative test and student interview show that this local …

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Web-Based Vocational English: Development, Practice And Problems, Kim Hung, Martina Chan, Chi Ming Lee Aug 2000

Web-Based Vocational English: Development, Practice And Problems, Kim Hung, Martina Chan, Chi Ming Lee

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In response to the IT in education initiative by Hong Kong's Vocational Training Council, a project on web-based vocational English course was carried out at the Language Centre of Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) in September 1999. This project aimed to find out how to enhance language learning through integrating web-based and classroom-based activities. A survey was administered to investigate students' response to this type of learning experience. In this paper, the development of the web-based activities and the integration process would be described and the survey results would be discussed.

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Role Of Supported Services In The Provision Of Vocational Training For Open Employment To People With Disabilities In Hong Kong, Woon-Ching, Eliza Lo Chan Aug 2000

Role Of Supported Services In The Provision Of Vocational Training For Open Employment To People With Disabilities In Hong Kong, Woon-Ching, Eliza Lo Chan

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The performance indicator for training for open employment is on how successfully the trainee is being employed in a job. Other than providing the job skills required which was always the emphasis in the vocational training, there are other issues, equally important, that should be addressed to prepare the trainees to enter into the competitive open job market. Independent and social skills should be strengthened through programmed activities. Attention should also be paid to minimize the mismatch between skills training and job opportunities to the trainees. Based on the provision in the skills centres for the people with disabilities aiming …

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Using The Web To Enhance Language Teaching And Learning And Distributed Cognitions In A Conventional Sub-Degree Setting, Wanda W.Y. Lau Aug 2000

Using The Web To Enhance Language Teaching And Learning And Distributed Cognitions In A Conventional Sub-Degree Setting, Wanda W.Y. Lau

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper examines the functions and uses of IT, specifically the internet for educational purposes in general, and for the teaching and learning of English in a sub-degree course in particular. The design of an exercise in an English course at sub-degree level, with the objective of using the web to encourage interactive discussion among students and staff and the development of distributed cognitions (Pea, 1993) and “person-plus” (Perkins, 1993) in the students, is looked into and its effectiveness analysed. Some of the problems arising from the exercise are discussed as well.

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Workplace Learning As An Investment In Human Capital, Johanna Lasonen, Reijo Parikka Aug 2000

Workplace Learning As An Investment In Human Capital, Johanna Lasonen, Reijo Parikka

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The paper considers, on the basis of the theory of human capital, in what sense the various agents involved in work-based learning perceive the on-the-job learning period in vocational upper secondary education as an investment-like activity driven by expectations of longterm benefits held by individuals, enterprises and society. The focus of the paper is an empirical survey of Finnish students, teachers, company managers and workplace trainers participated in a work-based learning pilot project. Students believe that their stay in working life improves their employment prospects, enterprises do not incur any additional costs, and workplace trainers and teachers are coping with …

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Key Policy Issues In The Promotion Of Information Technology In Vocational Education: Some Lessons From The Five-Year Strategy In Hong Kong, Kathleen S.K. Ng Aug 2000

Key Policy Issues In The Promotion Of Information Technology In Vocational Education: Some Lessons From The Five-Year Strategy In Hong Kong, Kathleen S.K. Ng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In this information era, the promotion of information technology (IT) in education has become an important agenda for governments all over the world. In June 1998, the Hong Kong Government of the Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) published a policy document entitled “Information Technology for Quality Education: Five-Year Strategy 1998/99 to 2002/03” as a blueprint for the promotion of IT in education. Despite the commitment and financial support provided by the HKSAR government, several problems have been identified in the policy plan and in fact, have emerged in the course of its implementation. This paper applies four key policy evaluation categories …

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How Effective Are Our Teaching Methods For Vocational Education, Yik Lung, Lawrence Wong Aug 2000

How Effective Are Our Teaching Methods For Vocational Education, Yik Lung, Lawrence Wong

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In vocational education, students' attitudes are often overlooked in its pedagogy deployment. The theme of this paper is to investigate how to measure the effectiveness of teaching in student's affective domain. The research experiment was designed with time-span of 15 weeks. A set of questionnaires was designed as the instrument of the investigation. Prior to the experiment, students were split into two groups. Subsequently, these two groups of students went through different approaches of teaching. At the end of the experiment, the same questionnaires were used to probe students' attitude. Data analysis was used to measure the shift of attitude …

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What Is Missing From Iso 9000 International Quality Standards Training In The United States?, Paul Krueger Aug 2000

What Is Missing From Iso 9000 International Quality Standards Training In The United States?, Paul Krueger

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Carnevale, Gainer and Villet (1991) observed that employers have too often used training approaches that failed to deliver “new knowledge in a context meaningful to the learner.” This conclusion was consistent with the results found in a recent study of 406 United States companies that used training to prepare their employees for registration to the ISO 9000 series of international quality assurance standards. The vast majority of companies failed to address employee learning needs, and used few research-based instructional strategies to enhance training transfer from workshop to shop floor. Companies rarely grouped employees by their ability to learn and infrequently …

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Curriculum Development In Vocational Education: Achieving Balance And Coherence, Christopher Parkin Aug 2000

Curriculum Development In Vocational Education: Achieving Balance And Coherence, Christopher Parkin

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In the era of lifelong learning, with the potential of new information technologies to facilitate learning and assessment, the need for curriculum balance and coherence is as important as ever. Lessons from the past should be applied to future development. Over specification of curriculum requirements must be avoided, alternative viewpoints of coherence accommodated, and continuity in development sought. Curriculum components should be in balance, with appropriate emphasis on valued learning experiences. Emphasis should be given to developing key skills in breadth and depth, and to a balance of accountability and flexibility. A template of interrelated key descriptors is suggested.

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Teaching Statistical Problem Solving In Vocational Education, Wing Kin, Ken Li Aug 2000

Teaching Statistical Problem Solving In Vocational Education, Wing Kin, Ken Li

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

As our society is moving towards information economy, vocational education programs should equip students with the skill able to search, use and analyse information. Although the rapid and continuous development of information technology can ease the computational burden of data analysis, statistical analysis of data is not a simple task that acquires statistical practitioners having specific knowledge and skills to deal with statistical problems. Education of statistical practitioners is specifically concerned with preparation for improving performance in applications of statistics in industries such as finance, manufacturing, etc.. This advocates learning problem solving skills which require practice in thinking about, implementing …

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Telling Stories In The Use Of Portfolio Assessment In Higher Education: Some Implementation Issues, Annie Y.W Nicholson, Sharon Bryant, Judy W.F. Ng Aug 2000

Telling Stories In The Use Of Portfolio Assessment In Higher Education: Some Implementation Issues, Annie Y.W Nicholson, Sharon Bryant, Judy W.F. Ng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Evidence has shown that the results of traditional standardized tests characterized by pencil and paper formats, multiple-choice responses and time-restricted completion are not sufficient in telling how pupils engage in the learning process and their progress in learning. In addition, these tests tend to emphasize on the assessment of basic skills but fail to measure higher level thinking and problem solving skills. This inadequacy can be addressed by incorporating authentic assessment approaches such as performance tasks, portfolios, and grading for team effort. This paper aims to tell stories from an action learning research group whose members have used ‘portfolio’ as …

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Structure And Cultivation Of The Knowledge And Abilities Of Students Of Higher Vocational Technical Education, Jiyao Zhou, Kaiyu Zhen, Weihua Liu Aug 2000

Structure And Cultivation Of The Knowledge And Abilities Of Students Of Higher Vocational Technical Education, Jiyao Zhou, Kaiyu Zhen, Weihua Liu

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper puts forward the constitution module for the knowledge and ability structure that students of higher vocational education should have. It sets forth at the full some basic principles that the basic knowledge the students of higher vocational education should master ought to be limited to no more than enough for their future use while their special skills and knowledge should be advanced, practical and their humane knowledge should be rich and extensive. It also suggests certain measures for the cultivation of their comprehensive practical abilities and the dialectical relationship between knowledge and ability which leads to the conclusion …

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The Effects Of The Whole Educational Experience On Graduate Employability And Further Study, Michael John Pomfret Aug 2000

The Effects Of The Whole Educational Experience On Graduate Employability And Further Study, Michael John Pomfret

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

A study of recent graduates was conducted in which their present status, campus life experiences, perceptions of their own performances in work or study, and suggestions on improving the curriculum design were explored. Altogether, 315 completed questionnaires were received and the result confirmed that students’ campus involvement positively but weakly correlated with their perceived performances in both working and studying environments after graduation. To enhance students’ involvement in attaining whole educational experience, group-based programmes involving peer activities are suggested.

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Discovery Learning Approach To Classic Electrical Machines Principles, S.K. Wong, K.F. Chan, David T.W. Chan Aug 2000

Discovery Learning Approach To Classic Electrical Machines Principles, S.K. Wong, K.F. Chan, David T.W. Chan

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper aims at presenting the concept of Socratic interactions and discovery learning of classic electrical machines principles. The theories of electrical machines are by nature quite boring and abstract although there are a lot of experiments supported the theories. Traditional, students learnt the subject by drill and practice approach with standard textbooks. In the past two decades, computer is no doubt recognized to be the educational tool. The so-called “interactive” approach is applied to the learning process. Most of this approach applied to various subjects in different levels is mainly based on drill and practice. However, few packages are …

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How Effective Are Our Teaching Methods For Vocational Education, Yik Lung, Lawrence Wong Aug 2000

How Effective Are Our Teaching Methods For Vocational Education, Yik Lung, Lawrence Wong

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In vocational education, students' attitudes are often overlooked in its pedagogy deployment. The theme of this paper is to investigate how to measure the effectiveness of teaching in student's affective domain. The research experiment was designed with time-span of 15 weeks. A set of questionnaires was designed as the instrument of the investigation. Prior to the experiment, students were split into two groups. Subsequently, these two groups of students went through different approaches of teaching. At the end of the experiment, the same questionnaires were used to probe students' attitude. Data analysis was used to measure the shift of attitude …

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Deafdigest Gold: Vol. 5, No. 1 August 6, 2000, Barry Strassler Aug 2000

Deafdigest Gold: Vol. 5, No. 1 August 6, 2000, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2000

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Deafdigest Blue: Vol. 5, No. 1 August 6, 2000, Barry Strassler Aug 2000

Deafdigest Blue: Vol. 5, No. 1 August 6, 2000, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2000

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Exploring A New Pattern Of Vocational Education And Training, Haicheng Yang, Tingrui Wang Aug 2000

Exploring A New Pattern Of Vocational Education And Training, Haicheng Yang, Tingrui Wang

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The 21st century is a new era in which information technology is developing rapidly and the demand from labor force market has broken the traditional concept of education. Vocational education and training as a life education is now regarded as a new type of educational system. But how to help this new system further develop so as to become gradually perfect is a big issue which calls for exploration in our country. We have done a great deal of beneficial exploration in this field and have founded a new Information Technology College by taking the advantage of teaching resources from …

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A Joint Venture In Distance Education Program Between Hong Kong And Australia, Fun-Ting Chan, John Messing Aug 2000

A Joint Venture In Distance Education Program Between Hong Kong And Australia, Fun-Ting Chan, John Messing

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This article examines how the use of information technology overcomes some of the difficulties in delivering vocational education at a distance. It then discusses how the collaboration of an overseas institution with a local academic partner can offer an enhanced distance education program. In addition to the reflections of the academic and administrative staff, feedback from the students is collected through a questionnaire survey. The students’ general course satisfaction and their opinions to the enhanced form of distance education are investigated. The findings of this case study provide a useful reference for distance education providers to enhance their competitiveness when …

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Web-Site Teaching: Analysis Of Its Future Development, Ying Wai Peter Chiu Aug 2000

Web-Site Teaching: Analysis Of Its Future Development, Ying Wai Peter Chiu

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Web-site teaching has become increasingly popular in universities and continuous education. This article discusses the advantages of web-site teaching. In particular the effect of web-site teaching on life-long learning is examined. It is concluded that web-site teaching will have large scope of future development and that education institutions especially those aiming at providing life-long learning to mature working people will need to start preparing for this revolutionary change in method of teaching.

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The Effectiveness Of Using Technology To Teach English As A Second Language, Rita Yuk Kwan Ng Aug 2000

The Effectiveness Of Using Technology To Teach English As A Second Language, Rita Yuk Kwan Ng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This study focuses on the effectiveness of using technology such as e-mail and websites in teaching and learning English. Around 50 in-depth interviews were made with teachers and students in the College to examine the effectiveness of using technology, such as e-mail, websites as teaching tools. Through such analysis, we can develop a better understanding on the students' and teachers' perception of their language abilities and effectiveness of using e-mail and websites for teaching. If there is a wide discrepancy between teachers and students' perception, it is better to equip our teachers with better understanding of the students' problems when …

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Use Of Web-Based Collaboration And Knowledge Transformation Tools To Support The Development Of A Learning Community To Enhance Careers Guidance Practice, Alan Brown, Graham Attwell, Jenny Bimrose Aug 2000

Use Of Web-Based Collaboration And Knowledge Transformation Tools To Support The Development Of A Learning Community To Enhance Careers Guidance Practice, Alan Brown, Graham Attwell, Jenny Bimrose

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper outlines progress towards the development of a learning community to enhance careers guidance practice, through the process of developing web-based collaboration and knowledge sharing tools. These will be used in order to provide a comprehensive telematic platform for interactive and focused knowledge sharing and transformation for Careers Guidance students, tutors, practitioners, policy makers, and training organisations as collaborative participants in a dynamic community of practice. Note some of the technical detail of the operation of the system is given in the linked paper of Attwell and Brown (2000) describing knowledge development in the CEDEFOP Research Arena.

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Industrialization, The New Economy, And The Occupational Work Ethic, Gregory C. Petty Aug 2000

Industrialization, The New Economy, And The Occupational Work Ethic, Gregory C. Petty

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the new international economy. The information age, the internet, along with e-commerce, e-communication, and e-learning are changing the way businesses and workers interact, communicate and problem solve. The challenges of these multitude of demands on today’s workers has greatly altered our traditional knowledge of the world of work. Vocational educators and trainers worldwide are now faced with a myriad of training challenges. Perhaps the most salient challenge is the understanding and communicating (teaching) of a work ethic suitable for the workplace of this new age.

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150th Commencement, Summer Aug 2000

150th Commencement, Summer

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University Of Central Florida Commencement, August 5, 2000, University Of Central Florida Aug 2000

University Of Central Florida Commencement, August 5, 2000, University Of Central Florida

Commencement Programs

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