the weighting of journalistic competences from the perspective of students
online survey for EJTA
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Carmen Koch, Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Wyss
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Third party (EJTA)
- Project partner : EJTA
- Contact person : Carmen Koch
Description
1 Initial position
At the AGM in 2006 in Estonia the EJTA European Journalism Training
Association has developed the Tartu-declaration. In the declaration
ten main journalistic competences each with five journalistic
qualifications are set out. Although all of these 50 qualifications
are of great importance, new trends and developments within
journalism and a lack of resources journalism schools are forced to
decide on which parts of the competence profile they lay their main
focus in their education. How important the EJTA members (mostly
heads of journalism schools) weight the different competences was
explored in a first pre-study. In a next step was investigated how
professional key persons across 20 European countries weight the
different elements of the EJTA Competence Profile.
2 Goal of the survey
The main goal of the third phase of the Competence Research Project
was to find out how students and teachers from different European
countries weight the importance of the ten main competences
respectively the fifty qualifications and how they believe current
and future developments in journalism will affect the relative
weight of each of these elements in the coming ten years.
3 Method
The questionnaire that was designed for the second phase was used
again. To spread the link to the online-questionnaire a contact
person (EJTA-member) for each participating country was designated.
The contact persons selected the respondents (150 students and 50
teachers from each country) to whom the link to the questionnaire
was forwarded.
The outcomes of the EJTA Competence Research Project were
summarized in a research report (commented tables) which is
available for all EJTA members. The headlines were presented at the
AGM of EJTA in London in May 2011.