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Development of a New Empirical Based Competency
Profile for Malaysian Technical Vocational Education
and Training Instructors
FINAL REPORT FOR FRGS VOT NO 0688
Project Leader
Prof. Dr. Noraini Bt Kaprawi (UTHM)
Project Members
Prof. Dr. Wahid Bin Razzaly (UTHM)
Prof. Dr. Jailani Bin Md. Yunos (UTHM)
Mahazani Bin Ali (MARA)
ABSTRACT
Building the knowledge-based human resources was the major thrusts of the
knowledge-based economy development plan for Malaysia. In order to provide
excellent qualities of knowledge worker for Malaysia, several issues and problems
regarding vocational and technical education must be resolved. The main issues and
problems found; (i) Many instructor lack competency, there is no fiamework (or
competency profile) being developed for the Technical Vocational Education and
Training (TVET) instructors, (ii) the study course at university do not provide
practical pedagogical skills as required by the instructor during their real job, (iii)
and there is no framework or path in training being developed for the instructors. The
focus of this study is developing empirical based competency profile for Electrical
Instructor and validating that profile. For the first stage, 42 general competencies
and 72 technical were identified. Further to the second stage, Ninety-eight
competencies listed in the survey form were considered as important for TVET
instructors in Malaysia. Finally for the 3rd stage, 112 competencies were found to be
required by Electrical Instructors. The questionnaires were send to 619 instructors
throughout Malaysia. Mean score of each competencies found in the range 3.69-
3.89(technical), 3.79-3.86(learning and methodological), and 3.59-3.82(human and
social). The results showed that the majority of Malaysian Vocational Education and
Training instructors score above the moderate (competence) level of each
competencies. The competencies level range fiom Level 1 to Level 5 where Level 1
refer to Very Low (Entry) Level, Level 2 refer to Low (Basic) Level, Level 3 refer to
Moderate (Competence) Level, Level 4 refer to High (Proficient) Level, and Level 5
refer to Very High (Expert) Level. This research also develop a new empirical based
competency profile for Malaysian Vocational Education and Training Instuctors
particularly for electrical Instructor. It is recommended that the concept of profiling
be extended to other field of training instructor.
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