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Clustering of Skills and Occupations: A Generic Skills Approach to Occupational Training.

Bikkar S Randhawa
- 01 Feb 1978 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 1, pp 80-92
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The process and procedures of determining generic occupational skills and clusters of occupations for optimal occupational training needs is presented and training and curricular implications were explored.
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This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 1978-02-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Skills management & Job analysis.

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Qualifying for the future

Wim J. Nijhof
TL;DR: The integration of general and vocational education is a perennial problem in education as mentioned in this paper and it seems that in recent years the pressure on both parts of the educational system to integrate, is rising and will lead to a rethinking of preparation for life for young people and will have consequences not only for secondary and also for primary and for further and higher education.
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Bridging the skills gap: the search for powerful skills, tools and techniques

TL;DR: In the early eighties, the focus of this debate shifted to the actual match between the qualifications acquired through vocational education and training and the competences demanded by business and industry as discussed by the authors.
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The job components inventory and the analysis of jobs requiring limited skill

TL;DR: The Job Components Inventory (JCI) as discussed by the authors is a new job analysis technique examining the use of tools and equipment, physical and perceptual requirements, mathematical requirements, communication requirements, and decision-making and responsibility requirements.

The Validity of an Occupational Classification Based on Job Competencies for Assessing Employability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Skills Map, a comprehensive classification of occupations based on their competency requirements, which is based on the Dic- tionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) ratings of worker traits required.
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The scree test for the number of factors

TL;DR: The Scree Test for the Number Of Factors this paper was first proposed in 1966 and has been used extensively in the field of behavioral analysis since then, e.g., in this paper.
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Maximizing the discriminating power of a multiple-score test.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for constructing multiple-score tests from items whose intercorrelations are not too high is presented, where the saturation, defined as the proportion of inter-item covariance to total variance, is maximized for each subtest.
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