TY - JOUR AU - Aarkrog, Vibe AU - Wahlgren, Bjarne PY - 2015/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Assessment of Prior Learning in Adult Vocational Education and Training JF - International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training JA - IJRVET VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.13152/IJRVET.2.1.3 UR - https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/ijrvet/article/view/54 SP - 39-58 AB - <p><span class="tx" style="top: 74.6pt; left: 54.8pt; width: 326.2pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 0;">The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.11pt; top: 87.2pt; width: 370.8pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 1pt 11pt;">of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order </span><span class="tx f587" style="word-spacing: 0.35pt; top: 97.6pt; width: 370.6pt; height: 12.2pt; border-width: 0 10pt 1pt 11pt;">to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers’ </span><span class="tx" style="top: 110.2pt; width: 33pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 2pt 0 4pt 11pt;">method</span><span class="tx f587" style="word-spacing: 0.11pt; top: 110.2pt; left: 43pt; width: 337.6pt; height: 12.2pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 0;">s for assessing the students’ prior learning in the programs for gastronomes, </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.71pt; top: 125.2pt; width: 368.4pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 13pt 4pt 11pt;">respectively child care assistants the article discusses two issues in relation to As</span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.71pt; top: 137.8pt; width: 371pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">sessment of Prior Learning: the encounter of practical experience and school-based </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.71pt; top: 150.5pt; width: 370.7pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 1pt 11pt;">knowledge and the validity and reliability of the assessment procedures. &nbsp;Through </span><span class="tx f587" style="word-spacing: -0.24pt; top: 160.8pt; width: 370.8pt; height: 12.2pt; border-width: 0 10pt 1pt 11pt;">focusing on the students’ knowing that and knowing why the assessment is based on </span><span class="tx f587" style="word-spacing: -0.12pt; top: 173.4pt; width: 347.1pt; height: 12.2pt; border-width: 0 0 4pt 11pt;">a scholastic perception of the students’ needs for training, reflecting one of the&nbsp;</span><span class="tx" style="letter-spacing: -0.19pt; top: 173.4pt; left: 357.1pt; width: 23.9pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 2pt 10pt 4pt 0;">most </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: -0.24pt; top: 188.5pt; width: 370.9pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">important challenges in Assessment of Prior Learning: how can practical experience </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 1.57pt; top: 201.1pt; width: 370.6pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">be transformed into credits for the knowledge parts of the programs? The study </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.59pt; top: 213.8pt; width: 368.2pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 13pt 1pt 11pt;">shows that by combining several Assessment of Prior Learning methods and com</span><span class="tx f587" style="word-spacing: 0.83pt; top: 224.1pt; width: 148.7pt; height: 12.2pt; border-width: 0 0 4pt 11pt;">paring the teachers’ assessments&nbsp;</span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.83pt; top: 224.1pt; left: 158.7pt; width: 222pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 2pt 10pt 4pt 0;">the teachers respond to the issues of validity and </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.71pt; top: 239pt; width: 370.6pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">reliability. However, validity and reliability might be even further strengthened, if </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.95pt; top: 251.7pt; width: 370.6pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">the competencies are well defined, if the education system is aware of securing a </span><span class="tx" style="word-spacing: 0.35pt; top: 264.3pt; width: 370.8pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">reasonable balance between knowing how, knowing that, and knowing why, and if </span><span class="tx" style="top: 277pt; width: 289.3pt; height: 9.9pt; border-width: 0 0 4pt 11pt;">the teachers are adequately trained for the assessment procedures.</span></p> ER -