Analysis of the Development of Key Skills for Employability in Professional Centres of the Basque Country

Abstract

This communication demonstrates research about how key skills are developed, carried out and assessed in professional and undergraduate studies in the Basque Country. This study is directed by the Gaitasunez research team and the aim of the project is a critical and rigorous analysis of the successful experiences in the development of key skills in professional centres in the Basque Country. We will try to find and identify the main success rate of centres firstly based on the teacher's curriculum design, methodology strategy, material use and skill assessment and secondly on the student's perception of applied key skills.Our aim is to define the basic knowledge which favours the development of these competences, drawing up proposals for their systematic development. The results and reflections of this first stage, which basically aimed to analyse the most successful experiences in terms of teaching practice and of the students’ self-perception of these competences are presented here.The second step was to select the most significant centres which are focusing on these skills. Here, a profound analysis is made especially for these centres and results will be presented.The drawing up of the map of the situation, or state of affairs, was based on the perceptions and evaluations of the teachers themselves, included in a specific questionnaire. The results and reflections presented in this report fall within this first phase of work, whose main objective is to analyse the most successful experiences, viewed both from teaching practice and from students’ self-perception of these competences.