Validation and Assessments in Vocational Hospitality Training
Atkins, Jesmond (2020)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020101221258
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020101221258
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The research presented in the thesis is about assessments and validation issues in vocational training in hospitality. The objective of this master’s thesis is to investigate and analyse possible and existing challenging factors, including administrative challenges in asessments and validation processes used in vocational training.
The context chosen for this study is the hospitality vocational education in which I have been working and teaching for the past 33years.
The research methods chosen were deductive and qualitative where a qualitative questionnaire was sent to selected people who are somehow involved in the education sector and assessments, starting from working colleagues and others. I had also analysed literature review about challenges that assessments and validation may present to individuals as well assessors which may include also administrative challenges. This study is a continuation to my previous research study in my bachelor’s degree. The previous study was about validation of informal and non- formal learning at the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) in the Food and Beverage area. Though having a wide experience in teaching and assessing, I need to do further research to see what are the most common good practices that can be used for both validation and assessments.
The findings are presented with listed tables from the answers that I have received from the questionnaires which have been analysed with listed results and further recommendations to this study.
The context chosen for this study is the hospitality vocational education in which I have been working and teaching for the past 33years.
The research methods chosen were deductive and qualitative where a qualitative questionnaire was sent to selected people who are somehow involved in the education sector and assessments, starting from working colleagues and others. I had also analysed literature review about challenges that assessments and validation may present to individuals as well assessors which may include also administrative challenges. This study is a continuation to my previous research study in my bachelor’s degree. The previous study was about validation of informal and non- formal learning at the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) in the Food and Beverage area. Though having a wide experience in teaching and assessing, I need to do further research to see what are the most common good practices that can be used for both validation and assessments.
The findings are presented with listed tables from the answers that I have received from the questionnaires which have been analysed with listed results and further recommendations to this study.