Performance-Based Training in Apprenticeship and an Overview of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship System

摘要

The study examined performance-based training at four carpentry and two manufacturing sites. Five of six sites reported satisfaction with this training approach in their apprenticeship programs. The sixth site discontinued this approach in its apprenticeship program but continued using it in other training programs. Each site tried to alleviate problems it had with traditional apprenticeship program approaches. These problems it had with traditional apprenticeship program approaches. These problems included irrelevancy and inadequacy of related instruction courses available from local schools, inavailability of varied on-the-job training, and a lack of a method to evaluate apprentices' application of knowledge and skill training. The sites that continued using performance-based training found that this approach significantly reduced those problems. This study also reviewed the Wisconsin apprenticeship system.