Enhancing Students’ Vital Skills for Work at Technical Vocational Education and Training

Abstract

Internal Summative Assessment Task (ISAT) is an educational tool included as a practical requirement in TVET curriculum for students to acquire skills of a particular trade. This tool has not been well utilized at (TVET) Colleges consequently, limiting the National Certificate (Vocation) (NC(V) graduates’ professional prospects. This research explored prospects of acquiring (WIL) by managing Internal Summative Assessment Task as a tool that would enhance in-house practical work by preparing set tasks to be done at college in workshops to assist National Certificate (Vocation) students to qualify as capable mid-level artisan. Mixed methods convergent design was used to understand the possibility of how ISAT would be managed at (TVET) Colleges to provide additional in-house practical hours. Data was collected and analyzed separately for both methods qualitative and quantitative using in-depth interviews, with survey questionnaires were distributed to 181 TVET students. Observations were also done during ISAT and gave perspective for this research. The findings showed that students felt more could be done with the ISAT tool to expand their possibilities of employment. If the proposed (ISAT) model is implemented, it would enhance their qualification and allow a total of 400 hours of in-house practical work by end of their three years training hence qualifying as employable mid-level artisans at a (TVET) College.