Design of a curriculum based on the job search behavior at the technical and vocational school

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Sadegh Norooz Masarmi ¹
• Mokhtar Ranjbar ²
• Abbas Gholtash ³

¹ Ph.D. Student in Curriculum Planning, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd Branch, Lamerd, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Lamerd Branch, Lamerd Islamic Azad University, Lamerd, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht, Marvdasht, Iran

10.30495/jedu.2023.26642.5344

Abstract

Introduction: Preparing young people for employment has always been a member of the higher education system, which is perhaps the most important goal in the current era. With the rising unemployment rate of technical and vocational arts graduates, some officials and professionals have tried to take measures to curricula the community and the world of transplant work. The purpose of this study is to design and validate a curriculum based on the search for entrepreneurial job behavior in technical and vocational education.
research methodology: The general approach of the research was mixed (qualitative-quantitative) with the exploratory design. The purpose of this research is applied; The data collection method is hybrid. The type of research data, in the qualitative part, is theoretical study and deductive content analysis. In the quantitative part, the research is a descriptive survey with the questionnaire and the method is statistical. The statistical population of the study included experts and experts in technical and vocational education of education conservatories in Bushehr province, which according to the saturation principle, 47 people were selected. In this study, in accordance with the questions and objectives of the research, a closed-ended questionnaire with 53 questions 5-choice based on the Likert scale was developed. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, content and structural validity were used and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by taking into account Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 96.04 and combined reliability, which were confirmed. The method of data analysis in the qualitative part of the theoretical coding was derived from the concepts and principles of research. For set of the model, the method of deductive content analysis has been used. In the second level, statistical factor analysis method was used to validate the designed model.
Findings: The designed model has a good fit in terms of defined indicators. In other words, the collected data supports a theoretically developed model. The internal reliability of the model depends on the strength of the relationships between the variables or the degree of correlation and factor loadings between them.
Conclusion: The results of the study showed that since job search behavior is the driving point of education in successful countries in the field of technical and vocational curricula, designing a model of job behavior in the future is a necessity of technical and vocational skills training. The lack of a validated model of technical and vocational education, negligence in allocating the share of skills training in the education system and the lack of necessary skills in graduates of technical and vocational centers are the most important challenges in this area.

Keywords

• Curriculum Design
• Job Behavior Search
• Entrepreneurship Training

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