MODULARTE NATIONAL PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND EVALUATION OF THE FEEDBACKS

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MODULARTE NATIONAL PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND
EVALUATION OF THE FEEDBACKS
Higher School of Transport Sofia Bulgaria

• IVAN KOLAROV
• Department of Machine Elements, Material Science
  and Chemistry
• TEODOR KIRCHEV
• Department of Transport Technologies and
  Management

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INTRODUCTION

• The technological education is an important part
  of the students common education in direction of
  creating practical skills needed for the everyday
  life.
• Attending the basic compulsory theoretical
  teaching, the technological training sets tasks
  of no lesser importance and their accurate
  formation and execution assists for building a
  correct way of looking, usage culture,
  understanding the work of apparatus permanently
  being around us.

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INTRODUCTION

• The creation of united European curriculum and
  programs for training of technological training
  teachers will help for equalizing and improvement
  of the existing educational standards between the
  European countries in this area, modernization of
  the syllabus and relatively will give a better
  preparation to students.
• The task of this report is to present the basic
  moments of the project execution and evaluation
  of the purposeful groups results.

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Project Activities

• During the project development, a very good
  cooperation between the partners was achieved,
  that led to effective work together in the
  project development process.
• Due to the good management, the project work was
  in synchrony with the preliminary scheduled plan.

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Project Dissemination

• Information about the project was spread, through
  a national specialized and school newspaper and
  through the Internet.
• A graphic material for the project was printed,
  including the basic stages of its development.
• Good personal contacts between the target groups
  were made, and through the project site a data
  base of the people working in the sphere of
  technological training was created.
• A national seminar where all target groups were
  invited was organized and the basic results from
  the project development were presented.
• In addition a face-to-face meetings were
  performed where were discussed the specialists
  and teachers eyesight, that were impeded from
  coming to the national seminar.

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National Project Evaluation

• A list of Questions was given to representatives
  of target groups and their opinion regarding the
  quality of main project outcomes was
  investigated.
• The questions and their order are according to
  the common project plan.

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Results Teachers
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Results Specialists
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Results Students
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Discussion of Results

• About 90 from the inquired people approve the
  conception, structure, content and the dept of
  this training elaboration.
• The course is consistent with the quality and
  reliability standards, and the information is
  shown in a modern way.
• The content is appropriate for the purpose group
  (students) the content is presented in an
  attractive and modernized way.

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Discussion of Results

• The percentage of non-approval increases in the
  answers of 5th , 11th , 13th and 14th questions.
• In all inquiries the answer I have no opinion
  of question 15 is predominant, because the people
  inquired are not aware of the European standards.
• By additional conversations was determined that
  the inquiries had expected to see disciplines
  giving knowledge for technologies related to the
  national tradition and way of life, because these
  fields are vastly covered in the Bulgarian
  technological training.
• This is the reason for the imperfect approval of
  5th, 13th and 14th questions in the inquiries.

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Discussion of Results

• Terminological differences between the names of
  the offered and present disciplines are apparent.
  
• There is a lack of the classical disciplines for
  pedagogical preparation of the teachers.
• Diversions in some disciplines names have been
  noticed, for example Introduction in the
  didactics and technological teaching part I and
  II, where the introduction word is not
  logically grounded.

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CONCLUSION

• Due to the effective work of all the partners,
  the good creative milieu and the established
  communicational means, a very good quality of the
  developed material was achieved.
• On this base there have been made a conclusion
  that the presented materials corresponds to the
  set aims and namely the elaboration of
  technological training modules which cover the
  required content and answers the modern
  requirements for this type of specialists
  preparation.
• The results from the MODULARTE project can be in
  favour of one good new basis for the European
  technological training development.

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