Accomplishments / Statement of Organizational Capability

Professional Development

As a part of our everyday duties at VTECS, staff routinely conduct numerous presentations and workshops regarding competency-based occupational-technical education,  occupational analysis, instructional design, skill standards, assessment, and the use of our software, VTECS DIRECT™ and VTECS Connect™ for local, state, national, and  international audiences. In addition, every project we manage involves some form of in-service or training regarding the development of standards, assessments, assessment systems, and software systems to manage the type of information we develop.

Other related activities include, but are not limited to, having:

• Co-sponsored, with the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education, the National Career Clusters Institute for over 400 people in Phoenix, Arizona, in June 2003.
• Provided leadership for the conduct of four national conferences regarding critical issues in vocational-technical education assessment of standards and measures.
• Hosted a National Forum on State Level Standards and Assessment Systems for Vocational-Technical Education, with sixty-six individuals from twenty-two states in attendance.
• Hosted forty-five delegations from some 35 foreign countries at the VTECS offices in Decatur, Georgia. These visits were arranged by the U. S. Department of Labor or the World Bank.
• Conducted VTECS training sessions for 10 US Army Branch Schools.