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WorldSkills competitors and entrepreneurship: strengths and limitations of the study design, data analysis, and findings Maia Chankseliani Department of Education 18 June 2015 A youth festival in which competitors would recognise their
‘A youth festival in which competitors would recognise their role in helping to construct the
sports and the arts, and for this reason it was felt that achievements in vocational education and training were deserving of the same (Wilson, 2000, p. 201).
Project 1. Modelling the characteristics of vocational excellence Aim: to study the characteristics of young people involved in the WorldSkills UK programme. Project 2. Learning environments to develop vocational excellence Aim: to understand what constitutes a learning environment where world-beating performance can be developed. Project 3. Benefits of developing vocational excellence Aim: to examine how and in what way skills competitions provide social and economic benefits, not only to the individual involved but also to society. Project 4. FE college participation in WorldSkills Aim: to establish benefits and costs of involvement in skills competitions for FE colleges. Project 5. WorldSkills contestants and entrepreneurship Aim: to illustrate how the acquisition of greater skill and capability might develop entrepreneurial instinct and ideas and to investigate the sustainability of the activities involved. Project 6. Training managers: benefits and barriers to WorldSkills UK participation Aim: to identify the main benefits and barriers facing TMs in order to inform WorldSkills UK in the recruitment, selection and training of TMs in the future.
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Self-efficacy/confidence - Tell me about your most important experience that developed your confidence to take on challenging tasks, complete them and reach goals [SELF-EFFICACY] Hope/willpower – Tell me about your experience that developed your willpower to attain goals and ability to see the pathways to these goals, redirecting paths to goals in order to succeed. Are you more determined to achieve your goals and is it difficult to distract you from your targets than it used to be prior to that experience? Can you give an example? [HOPE] Optimism - Tell me about your experience that was the strongest influence on developing your optimism, i.e. expectation of positive and desirable events in the future. Since that event, are you more likely to attribute positive events to personal, permanent and pervasive causes and interpret negative events in terms of external, temporary and situation-specific factors now than you used to before that experience? Can you give an example? [OPTIMISM] Resiliency - Tell me about your experience that was most influential in developing your resilience, i.e. the ability to recover from unfavourable events or stressors. When beset by problems and adversity, are you more likely to continue working hard towards achieving your goals than you used to before that experience? Can you give an example? [RESILIENCY]
33% 35% 35% 95% 67% 65% 65% 5% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Resiliency Optimism Hope Self-efficacy
No Yes
Entrepreneurial group Non-entrepreneurial group 62% 71% 74% 93% 38% 29% 26% 7% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Resiliency Optimism Self-efficacy Hope
Type of network Entrepreneurial category % (number of respondents in the entrepreneurial or non-entrepreneurial groups, respectively) recognising the importance of the network Professional networks Entrepreneurial 80% (24) Non-entrepreneurial 80% (8) Family networks Entrepreneurial 67% (20) Non-entrepreneurial 30% (3) WorldSkills community networks Entrepreneurial 47% (14) Non-entrepreneurial 50% (5) Customer-base Entrepreneurial 40% (12) Non-entrepreneurial 0% (0) Friends Entrepreneurial 20% (6) Non-entrepreneurial 10% (1)
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