Direct evaluation of vocational training outcomes in eleven industrial metal and electrical occupations

In addition to individual performance, vocational final examinations also shed light on the quality of training in individual companies. Taken together, they also say something about the quality of the entire training system. Examination content, including the ways in which it is selected and assessed, is a steering instrument for the quality development of the dual VET system.

The guiding question in the DERBI project is how the business- and work-process-oriented examination “company-based assignment” can meet conceptual criteria for examining occupational competence. For this purpose, various surveys are carried out in the project:

- survey of the examination boards and their members as well as of trainees

- statistical evaluation of the results of the chamber examinations

- document analysis and evaluation

As a result, we expect well-founded criteria on the suitability of the examination variant “company-based assignment” for the users (companies and trainees) and, building on this, proposals for a further development of the examination structure of the industrial metal and electrical occupations.