چكيده لاتين :
Needs assessment is an essential requirement for curriculum development in vocational education. Due to complexity of analysis of all influential factors and the degree of their contribution, needs assessment for vocational education has been quite demanding and perplexing. Direction of technology, employment, future trends, population, further education as well as current needs of industry, business, and agriculture are among influential factors in this regard. The challenge is which direction is to be taken in vocational education and to what extent each influential factor is supposed to affect vocational education curriculum. Since curriculum developers could not overcome this paradox, policy makers developed various structures to offer vocational courses. Therefore, vocational education is mainly offered in two forms: school-based and industry-based courses, either of which has its own shortcomings. Now the question is whether or not a third alternative would be possibly available which could meet the demands of society at present and in future and at the same time, it would contribute to development of devout citizens with competence to pursue their studies at higher levels. Through examination of performance of two current approaches in different countries, this paper aimed to propose a third alternative to deliver vocational courses in an integrated fashion to satisfy both the demanding society and the individual learner.
