1. MODULARTE – NATIONAL PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND EVALUATION OF THE FEEDBACKS IVAN KOLAROV Department of Machine Elements, Material Science and Chemistry TEODOR KIRCHEV Department of Transport Technologies and Management Higher School of Transport Sofia Bulgaria

2. INTRODUCTION The technological education is an important part of the students’ common education in direction of creating practical skills needed for the everyday life. Attending the basic compulsory theoretical teaching, the technological training sets tasks of no lesser importance and their accurate formation and execution assists for building a correct way of looking, usage culture, understanding the work of apparatus permanently being around us.

3. INTRODUCTION The creation of united European curriculum and programs for training of technological training teachers will help for equalizing and improvement of the existing educational standards between the European countries in this area, modernization of the syllabus and relatively will give a better preparation to students. The task of this report is to present the basic moments of the project execution and evaluation of the purposeful groups results.

4. Project Activities During the project development, a very good cooperation between the partners was achieved, that led to effective work together in the project development process. Due to the good management, the project work was in synchrony with the preliminary scheduled plan.

5. Project Dissemination Information about the project was spread, through a national specialized and school newspaper and through the Internet. A graphic material for the project was printed, including the basic stages of its development. Good personal contacts between the target groups were made, and through the project site a data base of the people working in the sphere of technological training was created. A national seminar where all target groups were invited was organized and the basic results from the project development were presented. In addition a face-to-face meetings were performed where were discussed the specialists and teachers eyesight, that were impeded from coming to the national seminar.

6. National Project Evaluation A list of Questions was given to representatives of target groups and their opinion regarding the quality of main project outcomes was investigated. The questions and their order are according to the common project plan.

7. Results: Teachers

8. Results: Specialists

9. Results: Students

10. Discussion of Results About 90% from the inquired people approve the conception, structure, content and the dept of this training elaboration. The course is consistent with the quality and reliability standards, and the information is shown in a modern way. The content is appropriate for the purpose group (students); the content is presented in an attractive and modernized way.

11. Discussion of Results The percentage of non-approval increases in the answers of 5th, 11th, 13th and 14th questions. In all inquiries the answer “I have no opinion” of question 15 is predominant, because the people inquired are not aware of the European standards. By additional conversations was determined that the inquiries had expected to see disciplines giving knowledge for technologies related to the national tradition and way of life, because these fields are vastly covered in the Bulgarian technological training. This is the reason for the imperfect approval of 5th, 13th and 14th questions in the inquiries.

12. Discussion of Results Terminological differences between the names of the offered and present disciplines are apparent. There is a lack of the classical disciplines for pedagogical preparation of the teachers. Diversions in some disciplines names have been noticed, for example “Introduction in the didactics and technological teaching” part I and II, where the “introduction” word is not logically grounded.

13. CONCLUSION Due to the effective work of all the partners, the good creative milieu and the established communicational means, a very good quality of the developed material was achieved. On this base there have been made a conclusion that the presented materials corresponds to the set aims and namely the elaboration of technological training modules which cover the required content and answers the modern requirements for this type of specialists preparation. The results from the MODULARTE project can be in favour of one good new basis for the European technological training development.

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