Students in the transition system between school and vocational education and training. Occupations in the field of metals technology, e.g. plant mechanic, industrial mechanic, tools mechanic, metal worker are covered.
The project will publish an information document for companies on ECVET; and an information document for chambers on pre-vocational education and ECVET.
EASYMetal built on substantial work carried out in the context of the DECVET initiative. Four units of learning outcomes have been built, relating to seven qualifications of the metal sector trained in the ‘dual system’. The identified learning outcomes were derived from the respective training regulations applied at company level and from the curricula applied at vocational schools (dual system). The starting point was to look at the first year of training of these seven qualifications of metal industry and to identify similar learning outcomes. In a second step of defining the units, complete work tasks were designed. Each unit describes complete work tasks, representing a working process beginning with the subtask of ‘Information and Planning’ to ‘Execution of Work’, and ending with ‘Control and Evaluation’. Concrete learning outcomes were allocated to all of these sub-tasks in the working process, e.g. ‘Information and Planning: Gathers work sequences from technical drawings and puts them in a reasonable order for later completion.’
To describe these different learning outcomes of the working situation the team used the EQF descriptors ‘Knowledge’, ‘Skills’ and ‘Competences’ and identified active verbs to describe each learning outcome. Finally, for each learning outcome test criteria are allocated to (a), support the learning venues to organize the learning process, and (b), to make the results of the learning process more comprehensible and transparent for companies.