Research on soft skills with undergraduate students of faculties of education in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2018.1197" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2018.1197</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2018.1197" target="_blank" >10.21125/inted.2018.1197</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Research on soft skills with undergraduate students of faculties of education in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The article focuses on selected soft skills (particularly communication, team co-operation, problem-solving, autonomy, creativeness, performance, responsibility and the ability to develop new skills) with undergraduate students of faculties of education (expected pre-service teachers) in the Czech Republic. In the theoretical part, (1) basic models of pre-service teacher education applied in the Czech Republic and reflecting the Lisbon process are presented, (2) the soft skills and other competencies required from pre-service teachers are analyzed and discussed. In the empirical part, results of the research conducted on the sample of 1,032 respondents, undergraduate students of faculties of education, are displayed and analyzed. The research sample was divided in two groups: (1) students who do not intend to become teachers after graduation from faculties of education (N = 520); (2) students who decided during the studies to work as teachers after graduation (N = 512). Respondents&apos; feedback was collected through the 80-item questionnaire exploiting five-point interval scale. The questionnaire focused on respondents&apos; self-evaluation of the above listed soft skills. Collected data underwent the normal distribution tests and consequently were processed by appropriate statistical methods. The results discovered statistically significant differences in the level of self-assessment in single skills and competences, e.g. students not planning to work as teachers reached lower scores in the field of communication (compared to those respondents who intended to become teachers); however, they had higher scores of self-assessment e.g. in the field of performance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

INTED 2018 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-697-9480-7

ISSN

2340-1079

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1006-1015

Publisher name

INTED2018 Proceedings

Place of publication

Valencia

Event location

Valencia, Spain

Event date

Mar 5, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000447408801008