@inproceedings{a791da38dca34233bddc3c369f876365,
title = "Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college",
abstract = "Soft skills play a central role in engineering and technology education, and their importance is expected to increase within the Industry 4.0 framework. However, while the literature covers the soft skills of engineering program graduates, the research focusing on the soft skills required of graduates of a two-year technical college is very limited. In view of this gap, the study described in this paper examines the importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills required of a two-year technology program graduate. Forty-four electronics students and thirteen electronics teachers from a two-year college took part in the study, which used both quantitative and qualitative instruments. According to the findings, the importance assigned by the students to soft skills was significantly lower than the importance assigned by their teachers. It might be possible to explain the findings by the current curriculum not putting sufficient emphasis on providing relevant soft skills.",
keywords = "Electronics students, Electronics teachers, Soft skills, Two-year colleges",
author = "A. Gero and S. Mano-Israeli",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings. All rights reserved.; 47th SEFI Annual Conference 2019 - Varietas Delectat: Complexity is the New Normality ; Conference date: 16-09-2019 Through 19-09-2019",
year = "2020",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings",
pages = "446--451",
editor = "Nagy, {Balazs Vince} and Mike Murphy and Hannu-Matti Jarvinen and Aniko Kalman",
booktitle = "SEFI 47th Annual Conference",
}
