Development of a New Empirical Based Competency

Profile for Malaysian Technical Vocational Education

and Training Instructors

FINAL REPORT FOR FRGS VOT NO 0688

Project Leader

Prof. Dr. Noraini Bt Kaprawi (UTHM)

Project Members

Prof. Dr. Wahid Bin Razzaly (UTHM)

Prof. Dr. Jailani Bin Md. Yunos (UTHM)

Mahazani Bin Ali (MARA)

ABSTRACT

Building the knowledge-based human resources was the major thrusts of the

knowledge-based economy development plan for Malaysia. In order to provide

excellent qualities of knowledge worker for Malaysia, several issues and problems

regarding vocational and technical education must be resolved. The main issues and

problems found; (i) Many instructor lack competency, there is no fiamework (or

competency profile) being developed for the Technical Vocational Education and

Training (TVET) instructors, (ii) the study course at university do not provide

practical pedagogical skills as required by the instructor during their real job, (iii)

and there is no framework or path in training being developed for the instructors. The

focus of this study is developing empirical based competency profile for Electrical

Instructor and validating that profile. For the first stage, 42 general competencies

and 72 technical were identified. Further to the second stage, Ninety-eight

competencies listed in the survey form were considered as important for TVET

instructors in Malaysia. Finally for the 3rd stage, 112 competencies were found to be

required by Electrical Instructors. The questionnaires were send to 619 instructors

throughout Malaysia. Mean score of each competencies found in the range 3.69-

3.89(technical), 3.79-3.86(learning and methodological), and 3.59-3.82(human and

social). The results showed that the majority of Malaysian Vocational Education and

Training instructors score above the moderate (competence) level of each

competencies. The competencies level range fiom Level 1 to Level 5 where Level 1

refer to Very Low (Entry) Level, Level 2 refer to Low (Basic) Level, Level 3 refer to

Moderate (Competence) Level, Level 4 refer to High (Proficient) Level, and Level 5

refer to Very High (Expert) Level. This research also develop a new empirical based

competency profile for Malaysian Vocational Education and Training Instuctors

particularly for electrical Instructor. It is recommended that the concept of profiling

be extended to other field of training instructor.

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