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Education and working life: VET adults' problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments

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Hämäläinen, R., De Wever, B., Malin, A., & Cincinnato, S. (2015). Education and working life: VET adults' problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments. Computers and Education, 88(October), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2015.04.013
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Computers and Education
Authors
Hämäläinen, Raija |
De Wever, Bram |
Malin, Antero |
Cincinnato, Sebastiano
Date
2015
Discipline
Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitosFinnish Institute for Educational Research
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Elsevier. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.

 
The rapidly-advancing technological landscape in the European workplace is challenging adults’ problem-solving skills. Workers with vocational education and training need flexible abilities to solve problems in technology-rich work settings. This study builds on Finnish PIAAC data to understand adults’ (N=4503) skills for solving problems in technology-rich environments. The results indicate the critical issue that more than two thirds of adults with vocational education and training have weak skills or lack the skills in solving problems in technology-rich environments and that more than one fifth of these adults are at risk. Furthermore, this study indicates that the likelihood of having fragile problem-solving skills is six times higher for adults with vocational education and training than for adults with at least upper secondary qualification. Since the need for problem-solving in technologyrich environments is likely to increase in the future, this study also identifies the indicators for problem-solving skills differences. The models predicting problem-solving skills on the basis of theoretical assumptions as well as empirical support are presented. Our results indicate that adults’ lower performance does not seem to be associated with the vocational education and training educational system itself, but is mostly due to age, education in years, occupation, and gender, as well as work-related and everyday life factors. In practice, the models help to develop new approaches to enable novel problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments based on the current European workplace needs. ...
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Pergamon Press
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0360-1315
Keywords
vocational education and training (VET) problem-solving technology-rich environments large-scale assessment PIAAC work-based learning everyday life learning
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2015.04.013
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201506022144

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https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/24734591

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