dc.contributor.author | Hämäläinen, Raija | |
dc.contributor.author | De Wever, Bram | |
dc.contributor.author | Malin, Antero | |
dc.contributor.author | Cincinnato, Sebastiano | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-08T05:15:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-07T21:45:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hämäläinen, R., De Wever, B., Malin, A., & Cincinnato, S. (2015). Education and working life: VET adults' problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments. <i>Computers and Education</i>, <i>88</i>(October), 38-47. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2015.04.013" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2015.04.013</a> | |
dc.identifier.other | CONVID_24734591 | |
dc.identifier.other | TUTKAID_66291 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/46220 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Pergamon Press | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Computers and Education | |
dc.subject.other | vocational education and training (VET) | |
dc.subject.other | problem-solving | |
dc.subject.other | technology-rich environments | |
dc.subject.other | large-scale assessment | |
dc.subject.other | PIAAC | |
dc.subject.other | work-based learning | |
dc.subject.other | everyday life learning | |
dc.title | Education and working life: VET adults' problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201506022144 | |
dc.contributor.laitos | Kasvatustieteiden ja psykologian tiedekunta | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | Faculty of Education and Psychology | en |
dc.contributor.laitos | Finnish Institute for Educational Research | en |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Finnish Institute for Educational Research | en |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-06-02T06:15:02Z | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 38-47 | |
dc.relation.issn | 0360-1315 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | October | |
dc.relation.volume | 88 | |
dc.type.version | acceptedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © 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. | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.relation.doi | 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.04.013 | |
dc.type.okm | A1 | |