Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development

Autor/inn/en	Rasul, Mohamad Sattar; Rauf, Rose Amnah Abd; Mansor, Azlin Norhaini; Puvanasvaran, A. P.
Titel	Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 5 (2012) 5, S.43-56 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; Technical Education; Technical Occupations; College Graduates; Outcome Based Education; Job Skills; Skill Development; College Outcomes Assessment; Evaluation Methods; Measures (Individuals); Interpersonal Competence; Thinking Skills; Personality Traits; Values; Information Skills; Basic Skills; Manufacturing Industry; Validity; Interrater Reliability; Statistical Analysis; Questionnaires; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Technikunterricht; Technical occupation; Technischer Beruf; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Lernerfolgsmessung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Messdaten; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Denkfähigkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Wertbegriff; Informationskompetenz; Orientierungswissen; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Fertigungswirtschaft; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Gültigkeit; Interrater-Reliabilität; Statistische Analyse; Fragebogen
Abstract	Research nationally and internationally found that technical graduates are lacking in employability skills. As employability skills are crucial in outcome-based education, the main goal of this research is to develop an Employability Skill Assessment Tool to help students and lecturers produce competent graduates in employability skills needed by the industry. The employability skill Assessment Tool was developed using the Kepner-Tregoe (K-T) method. Samples were 107 employers from five types of Malaysian manufacturing industries. The findings showed that employers agreed on the importance for all seven of the employability skills: interpersonal skills, thinking skills, personal qualities/values, resource skills, system and technology skills, basic skills and informational skills. These skills were ranked and chosen as items for the Employability skills assessment tool. The tool developed was tested and validated by manufacturing employers and lecturers in institutions. The agreement coefficient was found to be between substantial agreement and almost perfect agreement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01