Completed project · 2009–2010
Kfz-Sm Project (Kfz III)
Since August 2004, motor vehicle workshops have been providing training in a two-year occupation introduced on a trial basis until 2009: motor vehicle service mechanic (Kfz-Sm). Since 2005, the ITB has been evaluating the new training occupation in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein in several phases (see Kfz-Sm I and II). The trial period was extended until 2013.
In this third evaluation phase, the task is to determine whether the performance of motor vehicle service mechanics who have moved on to the 3½-year occupation of motor vehicle mechatronics technician is comparable to that of motor vehicle mechatronics technicians who completed the three-and-a-half-year training directly, and whether this performance can be converted into adequate employment in a similar way.
To answer the questions about the whereabouts of the graduates, the written survey instruments already tested are used. They record employment status (employed, unemployed, etc.) as well as how closely a possible job relates in content to the training occupation. On the didactics of vocational school teaching, workshops are held with vocational school teachers, the results of which are condensed into proposals for action. In addition, case studies are carried out both with providers of training measures and with graduates of the two-year occupation in comparison with persons without a vocational qualification. Analyses based on secondary data on the situation in the other federal states round off the surveys.