set of learners. This provides the potential for flxibility and responsiveness to the
needs of learners and industry enterprises – a flxibility and responsiveness that is
dependent on the expertise of the VET teaching and training workforce to undertake
such learning design and implementation within an environment of fiite funding and
external accountability.
It is less than fie years since the move to Training Packages as the national
specifiation of vocational education and training in Australia and less than four
years since the fist Training Packages were endorsed. Since then, VET providers,
administrators, and industry have been on a steep learning curve as they unpack the
packages to determine what they mean for the end clients of the system – Australian
and international workers and students undertaking vocational education and training
programs.
A recent strategic evaluation was commissioned by the Australian National Training
Authority (ANTA) into the qualitative impact of the introduction of Training Packages
on vocational education and training clients (Down in press). The purpose of this
paper is to look behind the outcomes and fidings of this report to speculate on what
the research revealed about the nature of the change process concomitant with the
introduction of Training Packages within the vocational education and training sector.
In order to do this, the paper covers the nature of the research undertaken and, in
particular, the approach taken to the data analysis and reporting. It identifis some major
change issues on which a re-analysis of the research shed some light before concluding
with some fidings which might be heeded within subsequent change processes.
Nature of the research
The research process has attempted to collect and collate a broad-brush sweep of
the views of as wide a cross-section of the participant groups (i.e., State Training
Authorities (STAs), Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), Industry Training
Advisory Bodies(ITABs), employers and students), as was possible within the time
and resource constraints of this project. Participants were encouraged to tell their own
stories, and to discuss with their peers, the successes, issues and challenges of Training
Package implementation. As such, semi-structured focus groups supplemented by some
interviews were used to collect the perceptions of participants. The participants were
given a list of questions prior to the focus group (Down in press, pp. 118,121,126 &
130) but were encouraged to use the focus group session as a free-flwing discussion
of their experience in the implementation of Training Packages. A summary survey
instrument was used to give some degree of quantifiation and clarity to the recorded
discussion and several participants also took advantage of the offer of a follow-up
phone interview to discuss particular aspects of their experience.
set of learners. This provides the potential for flxibility and responsiveness to the
needs of learners and industry enterprises – a flxibility and responsiveness that is
dependent on the expertise of the VET teaching and training workforce to undertake
such learning design and implementation within an environment of fiite funding and
external accountability.
It is less than fie years since the move to Training Packages as the national
specifiation of vocational education and training in Australia and less than four
years since the fist Training Packages were endorsed. Since then, VET providers,
administrators, and industry have been on a steep learning curve as they unpack the
packages to determine what they mean for the end clients of the system – Australian
and international workers and students undertaking vocational education and training
programs.
A recent strategic evaluation was commissioned by the Australian National Training
Authority (ANTA) into the qualitative impact of the introduction of Training Packages
on vocational education and training clients (Down in press). The purpose of this
paper is to look behind the outcomes and fidings of this report to speculate on what
the research revealed about the nature of the change process concomitant with the
introduction of Training Packages within the vocational education and training sector.
In order to do this, the paper covers the nature of the research undertaken and, in
particular, the approach taken to the data analysis and reporting. It identifis some major
change issues on which a re-analysis of the research shed some light before concluding
with some fidings which might be heeded within subsequent change processes.
Nature of the research
The research process has attempted to collect and collate a broad-brush sweep of
the views of as wide a cross-section of the participant groups (i.e., State Training
Authorities (STAs), Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), Industry Training
Advisory Bodies(ITABs), employers and students), as was possible within the time
and resource constraints of this project. Participants were encouraged to tell their own
stories, and to discuss with their peers, the successes, issues and challenges of Training
Package implementation. As such, semi-structured focus groups supplemented by some
interviews were used to collect the perceptions of participants. The participants were
given a list of questions prior to the focus group (Down in press, pp. 118,121,126 &
130) but were encouraged to use the focus group session as a free-flwing discussion
of their experience in the implementation of Training Packages. A summary survey
instrument was used to give some degree of quantifiation and clarity to the recorded
discussion and several participants also took advantage of the offer of a follow-up
phone interview to discuss particular aspects of their experience.
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