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VQTS Vocational Qualification Transfer System

• Sabine Tritscher-Archan
• ibw Institut für Bildungsforschung der
  Wirtschaft
• 17 January 2008, Bergen

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Outline

• Key parameters
• Aims
• Products

ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Key parameters

• Project period Oct. 2003 Sept. 2006
• Coordinated by 3s, co-coordinated by ibw and öibf
• Steering group 9 institutions from 7 countries
  (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the
  Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary)
• 37 partners from 8 countries

ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Aim of the project

• Guiding question
• How is it possible to describe
• the acquirable competences within a VET programme
  as well as
• the competences a person in training has already
  acquired until the start of the mobility exchange
• in a clear and transnationally understandable
  way?
• ? Common language to enhance transparency
  without defining training standards

ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Products
Core elements / instruments Competence Matrix
displays competences structurally in a
table Competence Profiles (including Credit
Points) are formed from individual parts of
this Competence Matrix Competence Profile
Certificate a document that provides
information about the competence profile of a
person in training
ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Competence Matrix Mechatronics

Competence areas 5-25 areas
Steps of competence development 2-6 steps
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and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Competence Profiles
Organisational profile Overview of all
competences acquired in the VET programme
Individual profile Overview of all
competences a person has acquired at the start of
his/her mobility period
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Competence Profiles include CP

• Quantification of each competence area and each
  step of competence development
• 60 CPs per year of typical training, total number
  of CPs divided among competence areas and steps
  of competence development
• Allocation complexity, significance of
  competence within competence profile, student
  workload
• For competence profiles only those credit points
  that are fully relevant to the vocational profile
  are calculated
• CPs should not be viewed independently without
  competence description nature of additional
  information

ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy
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Competence Profile Certificate

Organisational profile incl. Credit Points
Individual profile incl. Credit Points
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Context-related descriptions Learning outcomes

• related to the process of work (core work tasks)
  as well as to the competences required to
  accomplish specific work tasks (can do, can
  perform, is able to)
• work-related categories as context
  characteristics objects of skilled work tools,
  methods and organisation of skilled work
  requirements for (skilled) work and technology
• descriptions are complimented by examples

ibw Institute for Research on Qualifications
and Training of the Austrian Economy