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Assessing life skills in young working adults – Part 1: the development of an alternative instrument

Rachel Jacoba van der Wal (Rachel Jacoba van der Wal is a Director at Thusa‐Help Consultants, Helderkruin, South Africa. Ruurd van der Wal is Head of Department at Techniken Witwatersrand, Helderkruin, South Africa.)
Ruurd van der Wal (Ruurd van der Wal is Head of Department at Techniken Witwatersrand, Helderkruin, South Africa.)

Education + Training

ISSN: 0040-0912

Article publication date: 1 May 2003

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Abstract

This research was motivated and initiated by a request from industry to present a life skills learning programme to supplement young workers’ training. Subsequently, the dilemma faced by facilitators and trainers to assess the learners’ attainment of the learning outcomes of a life skills learning programme provided the impetus to develop an alternative assessment method – the collage and the stimulus instruments. A model developed by the researchers guided the development of the alternative assessment method and the stimulus instruments. Taking into account the demands, requirements and characteristics of life skills, a collage consisting of ten pictures and ten verbal concepts was developed to assess the learners’ attainment of the learning outcomes of a particular life skills learning programme. The life skills learning programme was presented to 18 artisans employed in industry. The selected material in the collage depicts more than one life skill and reflects the learning outcomes of the programme. The article is published in two parts. Part 1 is outlined above. The second part of the article will report on the outcomes of the application of the assessment instrument with the subject group of young workers.

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Jacoba van der Wal, R. and van der Wal, R. (2003), "Assessing life skills in young working adults – Part 1: the development of an alternative instrument", Education + Training, Vol. 45 No. 3, pp. 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/00400910310471000

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