Category Archives: Trades training

Research to enhance success for Māori by supporting organisations to address internal cultural competency and good practice for Māori in trades training. Continue reading →

Research to increase the participation and success of women in construction and engineering related trades where they are traditionally under-represented. Continue reading →

Research exploring the identity trajectory of established trades practitioners transitioning into teaching roles at ITPs. Continue reading →

These case studies illustrate key training characteristics, excellence in training and professional training achievements that support and enhance the success and motivation of apprentices. Continue reading →

A research project to identify useful strategies that lead to longer-term benefits for Youth Guarantee students. Continue reading →

This research produced a video outlining the learning strategies that support student success in hospitality education. Continue reading →

This research highlights effective systems of on-job assessment and show how these systems can build organisational capability and improve outcomes for learners. Continue reading →

Research to determine the impact of mentoring training on the quality of the mentoring support provided by coordinators and supervisors and on apprentice learning outcomes such as retention, credit achievement, completion and progression, in the New Zealand ITO context. Continue reading →

Research that investigates peer learning processes by students across four pre-trade programmes at CPIT. Continue reading →

Research to develop guidelines for using videos and multimodal discourse analysis to study the learning of trades skills. Continue reading →

This research shares key practices that deliver high student success and retention outcomes on a Youth Guarantee Scheme. Continue reading →

Research about contextualising vocational automotive training programmes to match institutional and industry settings. Continue reading →

Research to develop a shared base of online teaching courseware to align with the revised standards for three national diplomas in the domain of building and construction. Continue reading →

Research to develop discipline specific e-training model for trades tutors that can be applied to any trades discipline. Continue reading →

These resources aim to describe the trades-specific language used in the automotive technology, carpentry, fabrication and plumbing trades, as well as how this language is taught and learned at institutes of technology and polytechnics in New Zealand. Continue reading →

Research to ensure apprentices access adequate training and practice-based learning to become competent practitioners. Continue reading →

This research investigates how a tuākana-tēina model of trade training can provide better learning outcomes and greater success for Māori learners in the construction industry. Continue reading →