The contrast between workplace and school-based assessment in China's Vocational & Technical Education System: A structural topic model approach.

This project is conducted by Yan Zhang and supervised by Gavin Brown and Jason Stephens.

The project examines the degree to which there is alignment or discrepancy between assessment policy and practice between the formal college-based instruction and the internship workplace instruction. Data are collected in Guangdong province of PRC and focuses on post-secondary polytechnic vocational and technical education. The project used structured topic modeling to examine policy statements about assessment practices in workplace and college environments.

The first formal output is the attached conference presentation which can be cited as: Zhang, Y., Stephens, J. M., Brown, G. T. L. (2024, July). An Examination of School-Based and Work-Based Assessment Practices at China’s Tertiary TVET Institutes. Paper presented to the biennial meeting of the International Test Commission, Granada, Spain.

The PPT on Structural Topic Modeling is a presentation Yan Zhang gave to the lab group about how the STM machine learning mechanism works. Please cite this as : Zhang, Y. (2023). Structural Topic Model (STM) in R: An Example of Document Analysis of Assessment Practices at Chinese Tertiary TVET Institutes. Presentation to Brown's Lab Group, The University of Auckland.