| Assessing graduate attributes for employability in the context of lifelong learning： The holistic approach |
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| 基金项目： | The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Science Council, Taiwan under project （No. NSC 97-2410- H-328-007-）. |
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| 摘 要： | To promote economic and personal growth, higher education students＇ employability, ensuring their preparedness for the workforce, is emphasized. From the employer＇s perspective, judging whether a graduate is employable depends upon whether the graduate exhibits the attributes which employers value. Yet, with the growing emphasis on lifelong learning, it is important for higher education to re-consider and reframe the development and assessment of attributes of graduates in the context of lifelong learning. In this paper, these attributes will be explored in that context, and the issue of how assessment helps the development of graduate attributes is to be considered. Student engagement is proposed in this paper as the holistic, useful approach for the development of employability and lifelong learning. The holistic approach reflects the fact that what is required in a workforce is not the acquisition of knowledge, skills and dispositions per se, but the capability to make an engagement through which knowledge, skills and dispositions are connected as a whole. The lack of emphasis on students＇ engagement could lead to mistakenly selecting as important for the focus of assessment simply the acquisition of skills, knowledge or dispositions, rather than the holistic connection of these to their application in the workforce.
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| 关 键 词： | 研究生 就业工作 终身学习 教育产业 |
Assessing graduate attributes for employability in the context of lifelong learning： The holistic approach |
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| Authors: | SU Ya-hui FENG Li-yia |
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| Institution: | Teacher Education Centre, National Kaohsiung Hospitality College, Kaohsiung 812, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | assessment employability graduate attributes holistic lifelong learning |
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| Keywords: | assessment employability graduate attributes holistic lifelong learning |
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