Abstract:
Competency-based learning has been widely introduced in vocational education in Australia. There has been much debate concerning the nature of competency-based learning and its effects upon learning but there have been few surveys which have reported vocational teachers' attitudes to and experiences with this approach. Vocational teachers are in the position of directly implementing competency-based training policy. They are dealing with the teaching and learning problems stemming from this implementation as these arise and are likely to play a very important role in determining the overall effectiveness of this approach to training. This paper reports the finding of a survey of attitudes towards competency-based training using a group of NSW vocational teachers from a wide range of trade and professions in the first and second years of their Bachelor of Teaching degree at UTS.