Abstract
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">The issue of the quality of vocational education, school, teaching and learning of students should be in the interests of all participants in the education process. The quality of secondary school is the critical element in enhancing the attractiveness of vocational education in Slovakia. Finding an offcial scale that would provide such a&nbsp;information in Slovakia is unfortunately impossible. There is no system for evaluating the quality of vocational education and training (VET) at vocational schools. There are no clearly defined criterias, rules or any standards. Speaking of an assessing the level of quality of vocational education on the base of existing outcomes in formal education such as monitoring, final exams, graduation exams is resulting in one-sided evaluation and does not address the systematic coherence and complexivity of this issue. An essential step os to create a&nbsp;functional system of evaluation of VET in Slovakia. The article describes importance of VET which can play a&nbsp;central role in preparing young people for work, developing the skills of adults and responding to the labour market needs of the economy and presents the project Model of the quality evaluation of vocational education and training at secondary vocational schools in Slovakia that is currently ongoing on many secondary vocational schools in western Slovakia and Austria. The aim of the project is to develop and apply an open, flexible and adaptable quality management system. The article not only presents indicators for evaluation but also the way how can be evaluated each of them. The effort of this project is also to create specialized portal with support services that provide transparent, clear and specific information from this area of interest. The introduction of the evaluation framework, the selection of indicators that take established criteria into consideration and assembling of the scale is therefore more than relevant and required</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">.</span>
Highlights
The awareness to solve the issue of evaluating the quality of vocational education and the creation of the Quality Management System for Vocational Education and Training are stimulated by impulse, need, urgency and pressure of the general public as well as the schools themselves. [3]
Since OECD countries can not compete with less developed countries regarding labor costs, they need to compete in terms of the quality of goods and the services they provide
Objectives: to design a model based on criteria and indicators for the evaluation of the quality in vocational education and training, to design a methodology including the proposal of tools for supporting the implementation of proposed models within the first verification at selected vocational schools
Summary
Many countries are recognizing that good initial vocational education and training can make major contributions to make the economy competitive. Vocational education and training (VET) can play a central role in preparing young people for work, developing skills of adults, and responding to the labor market needs of the economy. It means to start building a foundation of basic and transferable skills into vocational qualifications, to reflect the chances of a world career and personal development rather than one job for life. Numeracy and literacy are of increasing importance in the labor market, and weaknesses in these fields are very common to those in vocational programs. The awareness to solve the issue of evaluating the quality of vocational education and the creation of the Quality Management System for Vocational Education and Training are stimulated by impulse, need, urgency and pressure of the general public as well as the schools themselves. [3]
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