Calero López Inmaculada, Rodríguez-López Beatriz
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
Empir Res Vocat Educ Train. 2020;12(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s40461-020-00100-0. Epub 2020 Nov 6.
Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes have included the acquisition of transversal competences in their curricula as a tool to increase employability. The number of researches has exponentially grown in the last years, emphasizing its relevance and the multiple approaches and factors involved in the learning process. The present bibliometric study aims to provide an overview of the scientific research carried out during the last 10 years and to shed some light on several relevant topics in this field. The results indicate the need to improve students' transversal competences in order to meet the demands of the labour market, the importance of the collaboration of all the actors involved in the process (policy makers, industry and educators) and from a pedagogical point of view, the necessity of introducing new teaching approaches to implement and assess the acquisition of transversal competences. However, and despite the surge of interest in the study of transversal competences in the last decade, further empirical research is needed, especially at Vocational Education and Training level, to understand how transversal competences develop and what kind of initiatives have an impact of their acquisition.
职业教育培训（VET）项目已将横向能力的培养纳入其课程体系，作为提高就业能力的一种手段。在过去几年中，相关研究数量呈指数级增长，凸显了其重要性以及学习过程中涉及的多种方法和因素。本文献计量研究旨在概述过去10年开展的科学研究，并阐明该领域的几个相关主题。结果表明，有必要提高学生的横向能力以满足劳动力市场的需求，强调了参与该过程的所有行为主体（政策制定者、行业和教育工作者）合作的重要性，并且从教学角度来看，有必要引入新的教学方法来实施和评估横向能力的获得情况。然而，尽管在过去十年中对横向能力研究的兴趣激增，但仍需要进一步的实证研究，尤其是在职业教育培训层面，以了解横向能力是如何发展的，以及何种举措会对其获得产生影响。
