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Assessment of Domain-specific Professional Competencies

Edited by
Prof Richard Shavelson
Prof Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

  1. The importance of professional competence (PC) in business administration (BA) has increased considerably in many industrial nations over the past several years. However, while economic competence is being ass...

    Authors: Manuel Förster, Sebastian Brückner and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:6
  2. As teacher training plays a major role in the development of (prospective) teachers’ knowledge, differences between the professional knowledge of prospective teachers at Austrian and German universities were e...

    Authors: Sabine Fritsch, Stefanie Berger, Jürgen Seifried, Franziska Bouley, Eveline Wuttke, Kathleen Schnick-Vollmer and Bernhard Schmitz
    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:4
  3. We posit that nascent entrepreneurs should develop a competence dealing with success and a competence preventing and treating failure. We call these competences “Sense of Success” and “Sense of Failure”. Both ...

    Authors: Fritz Oser and Tanja Obex
    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:3
  4. This article addresses the question of which physical-technical prior competencies students in Germany start their engineering studies with. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence of e.g. formal qualifications...

    Authors: Stefan Behrendt, Elmar Dammann, Florina Ștefănică, Bernd Markert and Reinhold Nickolaus
    Citation: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 2015 7:2