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How should 'quality' technical education and training be defined?: a statement from the National Council for Occupational Education

This paper attempts to define quality in technical education and training in terms of its outcomes and in terms of its contexts. Although it addresses objectively measurable achievement of outcomes as an important guide to quality, the paper deals, to a greater extent, with the ways in which technical education must define and assure quality in terms of its instructional resources, its institutional identity, and the demands of its environment. It concludes with a set of policy recommendations.

This paper attempts to define quality in technical education and training in terms of its outcomes and in terms of its ...  Show Full Abstract  

Authors: Everett, James; Gershwin, Mary; Hayes, Homer;
Jacobs, James; Mundhenk, Robert T. show more

Corporate authors: United States. Department of Education. Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
Date: 2002
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report
Subjects: Quality; Vocational education and training

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