Turning the final vocational examination into a test of dual competence

Final examinations in dual vocational education and training are currently facing huge pressure to modernise. The project “Employee examination system representatives in the digital world of work” (APdA), which is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) [Federal Ministry of Education and Research], has undertaken a detailed investigation of these changes and has presented a proposal for the further development of examinations in the dual system in the form of a paper entitled “Dual competence testing”. This article highlights the background to the project and the main demands being made.