Competencies of Vocational Teacher: A Personnel Measurement Framework

Arifin, Muhammad Aiman; Rasdi, Roziah Mohd; Anuar, Mohd Ashraff Mohd; Omar, Muhd Khaizer

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v7-i14/3659

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“…Findings were based on personal experiences of TVET teachers from 19 developing countries. The findings suggest that the blame that TVET teachers are mostly incompetent and do not make adequate efforts to help students develop employability skills, as reported in the literature (e.g., Arifin et al, 2017;Chua & Jamil, 2012;Paryono, 2015;Sulaiman et al, 2014;Yusuf & Soyemi, 2012;Yangben & Seniwoliba, 2014) is problematic and may be misleading.…”

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How TVET teachers foster employability skills: insights from developing countries

Okolie¹,

Elom

Igwe

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International Journal of Training Research

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Employability skills are a set of skills that when developed make graduates more likely to gain employment in their chosen careers. Despite the diversity views in the literature about what employability skills are, there appears to be general agreement that employability skills are important. However, there are concerns about whether Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates in developing countries are developing these skills and the onus falls upon TVET teachers to ensure they do so. In this qualitative study, 35 TVET teachers from 19 developing countries were interviewed to learn how TVET teachers foster employability skills of learners. Data collected were transcribed, coded and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings show that the well-published notion that TVET teachers in many developing countries do not make efforts to impart employability skills to their students could be brought into question. Results of this study show that TVET teachers use various techniques to foster employability skills in their TVET learners. Continuous professional development of TVET teachers to ensure quality graduate outcomes is recommended.

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How TVET teachers foster employability skills: insights from developing countries

Okolie¹,

Elom

Igwe

et al. 2020

International Journal of Training Research

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“…Competency Definition Aiman Arifin et al (2017) A set of personal and job knowledge, skills, abilities or attitude for a specific task, job or profession towards job performance. McClelland (1973) Set of traits toward effective or superior job performance Boyatzis (1982Boyatzis ( , 2008 Relationship between an individual to superior job performance in a job Spencer and Spencer (1993) Ability and skills gains through training, job, and life experience.…”

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Validating an Instrument for Competency Measurement: The Art of Using Rasch Measurement Model

Arifin¹

2021

IJARBSS

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Assessment of competency including the knowledge, skills, and abilities of an employee is vital to provide good information for an employer to enhance employees' future performances as well as maintaining organization performances. To measure the current level of employee competencies, tools such as an instrument for competency measurement that is valid and reliable should be used. To provide the validity and reliability evidence, instead of using the classical test theory (CTT), another measurement model that can be utilized to conduct a more precise measurement is the Rasch Measurement Model (RMM). This paper describes the application of the Rasch Measurement Model toward a study on competency measurement instrument development and validation. A discussion of several RMM diagnoses such as Person and Item Separation Index, Item Polarity, Fit Statistics, Item Dimensionality, Standardized Residual Correlation, and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) can be used to guide social science researchers in developing an instrument to measure employee competencies.

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“…In this study, teacher competency is defined as a set of personal characteristics, knowledge, skills and integrated attitudes needed for effective performance in various teaching contexts (Arifin, Rasdi, Anuar, & Omar, 2018;Stoof, Martens, Van Merriënboer, &Bastiaens , 2002;Tigelaar, Dolmans, Wolfhagen, & Van Der Vleuten, 2004). Performance theory is a basic concept for competence which believes maximum performance is to occur when people's abilities are in accordance with the needs of the job (Boyatzis, 1982).…”

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“…Performance theory is a basic concept for competence which believes maximum performance is to occur when people's abilities are in accordance with the needs of the job (Boyatzis, 1982). Where, one's abilities are explained by personal philosophies, visions, values; knowledge; competence; life and career stages; style and interests (Arifin et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%