Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training

Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training

Adrie J. Visscher Editor Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings 123

Editor Dr. Adrie J. Visscher Twente University Fac. Behavioural Sciences Department of Educational Organisation and Management 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands a.j.visscher@utwente.nl ISBN 978-1-4020-9526-9 e-isbn 978-1-4020-9527-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9527-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008940857 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com

Contents 1 Introduction to the Problem of the Under-Utilisation of Quality Assurance Data, and the Research Approach... 1 Adrie J. Visscher 2 A Theoretical Framework for Analysing the Implementation and Effects of Quality Assurance Systems in European VET... 7 Adrie J. Visscher 3 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in Dutch (I)VET for the Health Care Sector... 33 Maria Hendriks and Adrie Visscher 4 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in English (I)VET for the Health Care Sector... 51 David Pepper 5 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in Danish VET for the Health Care Sector... 71 Jørgen Ole Larsen and Ole Dibbern Andersen 6 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in Estonian (I)VET for the Health Care Sector... 91 Eeva Kesküla and Krista Loogma 7 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in Italian (I)VET for the Health Care Sector...109 Giorgio Allulli and Ismene Tramontano 8 Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in German (I)VET for the Health Care Sector...125 Lars Heinemann and Ludger Deitmer v

vi Contents 9 The Factors that Matter for Quality Assurance Across Six Countries. 145 Adrie J. Visscher and Maria Hendriks 10 Guidelines for the Quality Assurance of Vocational Education and Training in EU Countries...171 Adrie J. Visscher, Maria Hendriks, Ole Dibbern Andersen, Ludger Deitmer, Lars Heinemann, Eeva Kesküla, Jørgen Ole Larsen, David Pepper and Ismene Tramontano Author Index...177 Subject Index...179

Contributors Giorgio Allulli Instituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione Professionale dei Lavoratori (ISFOL), Via Giambattista Morgagni 33, 00161 Rome, Italy, g.allulli@isfol.it Ole Dibbern Andersen Danmarks Erhverspaedagogiske Laereruddannelse (DELUD) Rosenǿrns Allé 31, 1970 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, ole.dibbern.andersen@delud.dk Ludger Deitmer ITB Institut Technik und Bildung, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany, deitmer@uni-bremen.de Lars Heinemann ITB Institut Technik und Bildung, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany, lheine@uni-bremen.de Maria Hendriks University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Educational Organisation and Management, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, m.a.hendriks@utwente.nl Eeva Kesküla University of Tallinn, Institute of Educational Research, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120 Talinn, Estonia, eeva.keskula@tlu.ee Jørgen Ole Larsen Danmarks Erhverspaedagogiske Laereruddannelse (DELUD), Rosenǿrns Allé 31, 1970 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, joergen.ole.larsen@delud.dk Krista Loogma University of Tallinn, Institute of Educational Research, Uus- Sadama 5, 10120 Talinn, Estonia, Krista.loogma@tlu.ee David Pepper Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, England, Picadilly 83, W1J 8QA London, United Kingdom, PepperD@qca.org.uk Ismene Tramontano Instituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione Professionale dei Lavoratori (ISFOL), Via Giambattista Morgagni 33, 00161 Rome, Italy, i.tramontano@isfol.it Adrie J. Visscher Department of Educational Organisation and Management, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, a.j.visscher@utwente.nl vii