AKAB (Kriterienkatalog des Arbeitskreises Automobilindustrie Bildung)

(Criteria Catalogue of the Automotive Industry Education Work Group)

THeike Wölke  holds the copyright. The following description of her program and its availability has been produced with her approval.

You can access the digital AKAB criteria catalogue here (zip, 328 kB, in German)!
It is also available as a printable file: AKAB criteria catalogue_paper (pdf, 36 kB, in German).

In the help section of the catalogue ("Über diesen Kriterienkatalog"), it states:
Dieses Programm ist eine vollauffähige Probeversion mit einer Beschränkung auf drei CBT-Bewertungen. Eine vollwertige Version erhalten Sie zum Preis von DM 98,- bei VW Coaching GmbH (translation: This program is a fully enabled trial version limited to three CBT evaluations. You can obtain a complete version from VW Coaching GmbH for DM 98.-)

    Selbstlernzentrum
    Brieffach 0616
    D 38436 Wolfsburg
    Tel.: (0 53 61) 9-2 23 80
    Fax: (0 53 61) 9-7 15 63

In brief:

• user-friendly with 74 questions ;
• therefore less precise and more superficial than detailed checklists;
• is available as a program but the application was only developed for Windows operating systems up to Windows NT 4.0 and thus is not fully operational under Windows XP;
• the graphic interface is user-friendly;
• 4-levels of answers possible;
• weighting and calculating of a total score is performed by the program itself following rules which cannot be changed;
• sufficient consideration of technical and didactic aspects of the learning program;
• time-saving short evaluation with a more technical orientation is possible;
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• trial version is free, allows evaluation of a limited number of products;
• the current version is dated (price in deutschmarks, data up to 1999).

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