Content Analysis of technical and vocational textbooks paying attention to professional competencies in Iran at 2018

Vocational education a Key role in employment because of the training and skills needed to enable people to get jobs. the importance of the role of technical and vocational education in economic development and employment, It has tried to orient the system towards the development of technical and vocational education with the aim of educating the community on the skills and skills needed. On the other hand, competency-based education is an educational model in technical and vocational education that focuses on professional competencies. According to this, the aim of this study is to investigate the content of technical and vocational textbooks based on the level of attention to professional competencies. In this study, content analysis method has been used. The statistical population includes all technical and vocational books that comprise 589 books in the cluster of technical and non-technical technical courses in 41 fields. Using the sampling method, four workshop books were aimed at innovation, entrepreneurship, application of new technologies, work environment requirements and production management, common among all disciplines. A tool for measuring was the researcher-made checklist of content analysis. For data analysis based on content analysis method, Shannon entropy technique was used. Content validity was obtained using CVR 0.90.The agreement coefficient for the reliability evaluation was 0.90, too. The results of this research in the reviewed books indicate that, in total, 558 frequencies are considered as a component of technical and non-technical competencies. The highest frequency was related to non-technical competencies. In the component of technical competency, the highest frequency with respect to skill index was observed with 72 frequency and non-technical competency component with respect to business skill index was with 154 frequency.