The purpose of this research was to Identify the teachers` perceptions on the key competencies of vocational high school students. The research was based on the data collected from 739 school teachers who worked at 780 vocational high schools. The results of this study were as follows. First, The key competencies are defined as the abilities that include the knowledge, skills, attitude, and experiences comprehensively required for the successful performance of most jobs. Those were communication, numeracy, problem solving, self-management & development, resource use, human relationship, information, technology, and organizational skills. Second, as for the vocational high school students, key competencies across all departments turned out to be rather low, and they lacked the competency in numeracy most of all, followed by the problem solving, organizational skills resource use, and communication competencies. Third, Most of key competencies of business school and home economic school students proved to be higher than that of agricultural school, industrial school and fish-marine school students.
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