Generic capabilities for lifelong education: Conceptualization and construct validity

Generic capabilities for lifelong education: Conceptualization and construct validity

AARE 2007 International Education Research Conference: Fremantle: Papers collection

• Yeung, Alexander Seeshing University of Western Sydney
• Ng, Christina Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Liu, Winnie Puiling University of Western Sydney

• Jeffrey, P. L.

Melbourne

Australian Association for Research in Education

2008

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Conference (2007: Fremantle WA)

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AI Life Skills
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AH Adolescence Development

Construct Validity Dropouts Generic Skills Adolescents Recurrent Education Surveys Hong Kong Confirmatory Factor Analysis

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

To facilitate lifelong learning, recent education reforms have emphasized the development of generic capabilities. However, despite various lists found in previous studies, generic skills and capabilities have neither been well defined nor statistically validated. The present study attempted to (a) conceptualize generic capabilities in terms of 3 dimensions--cognitive, academic, and self, and (b) test the construct validity of generic capabilities using confirmatory factor analysis. Students who attended a continuing education program that was designed to provide an alternative pathway for students who failed in the Hong Kong secondary school system to pursue continuing education (N=2,806) responded to 13 survey items about their generic capabilities before the program (Time 1) and 13 parallel items after it (Time 2). Results supported a multidimensional structure of generic capabilities with the three dimensions at each time point. The conceptualization of a multidimensional structure provides a useful framework for the study of generic capabilities. It also calls for attention to the importance of generic capabilities in curriculum design.
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• English

Conference Papers

• 13249339 (Web)
• 13249320 (CD ROM)

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/85d49940

2010-11-25