Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college

A. Gero; S. Mano-Israeli

Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college

A. Gero, S. Mano-Israeli

Education in Science and Technology

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SEFI 47th Annual Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings
Editors	Balazs Vince Nagy, Mike Murphy, Hannu-Matti Jarvinen, Aniko Kalman
Pages	446-451
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9782873520182
State	Published - 2020
Event	47th SEFI Annual Conference 2019 - Varietas Delectat: Complexity is the New Normality - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 16 Sep 2019 → 19 Sep 2019

Publication series

Name	SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings

Conference

Conference	47th SEFI Annual Conference 2019 - Varietas Delectat: Complexity is the New Normality
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	16/09/19 → 19/09/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Electronics students
Electronics teachers
Soft skills
Two-year colleges

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Engineering
Education

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Gero, A., & Mano-Israeli, S. (2020). Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college. In B. V. Nagy, M. Murphy, H-M. Jarvinen, & A. Kalman (Eds.), SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings (pp. 446-451). (SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings).

Gero, A. ; Mano-Israeli, S. / Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills : The case of a two-year technical college. SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings. editor / Balazs Vince Nagy ; Mike Murphy ; Hannu-Matti Jarvinen ; Aniko Kalman. 2020. pp. 446-451 (SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings).

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Gero, A & Mano-Israeli, S 2020, Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college. in BV Nagy, M Murphy, H-M Jarvinen & A Kalman (eds), SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings. SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings, pp. 446-451, 47th SEFI Annual Conference 2019 - Varietas Delectat: Complexity is the New Normality, Budapest, Hungary, 16/09/19.

Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college. / Gero, A.; Mano-Israeli, S.
SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings. ed. / Balazs Vince Nagy; Mike Murphy; Hannu-Matti Jarvinen; Aniko Kalman. 2020. p. 446-451 (SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings).

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Gero A, Mano-Israeli S. Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college. In Nagy BV, Murphy M, Jarvinen H-M, Kalman A, editors, SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings. 2020. p. 446-451. (SEFI 47th Annual Conference: Varietas Delectat... Complexity is the New Normality, Proceedings).

Importance assigned by students and teachers to soft skills: The case of a two-year technical college

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