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Dispositional and maturational development through competency-based training

journal contribution
posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00 authored by Derek Kosbab
Presents a perspective on vocational learning that proposes that vocational competence is dependent upon dispositional development, which in turn, results in moves towards maturation. Reports research with unemployed adults engaging in vocational training and resulting in four findings. First, while training packages describe assessable outcomes in competency-referenced terms, trainees describe learning outcomes in non-competency referenced terms. Second, vocational trainees describe their learning in terms of dispositional outcomes; that is, in terms of values, interests and attitudes. Third, dispositions can be categorised in terms of maturational concepts. Fourth, trainees made moves towards maturation as a result of CBT/NEIS training over the six-week period of the course. The findings have important ramifications for all future VET/CBT trainees since it is the researcher's formative theory that maturation is a subset of competence in every vocational skill domain.

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Journal

Education and training

Volume

45

Issue

8-9

Pagination

526 - 541

Publisher

Emerald

Location

Bingley, England

ISSN

0040-0912

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

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