Evaluation of Sustainability of Czech Vocational Education and Practical Training for the Position of Construction Manager

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Interesting text!

The discussion needs a necessary extension!

No conclusion and no conclusions from the research!

The text needs to be completed!

Interesting text!

The discussion needs a necessary extension!

No conclusion and no conclusions from the research!

The text needs to be completed!

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper explores an interesting internship or co-op required for graduation.  However, the paper reads more like "what we did last summer" as opposed to a research paper with specific questions, results, and tangible implication. While a paper does not have to be completely novel, it should make signficant contributions to the field and add new knowledge or insights.  I don't see this in this paper yet.  

I think this could become a solid paper by focusing on the educational piece of this and the results that yields.  The reflection piece may provide this information.  

Major issues:  1) The goal of the paper to evaluate education and the labor market in the abstract seems huge.  Is this really what you did?  How could this be more succinct? What new information was generated, and what question did you answer? 2) I'd like to know more about the "record of work experience".  This reflection is really much of the educational piece of this course, and it deserves further explanation.  3) I haven't seen a paper before that referenced so much stuff from a University website.  I'd just offer that if it is material to the paper, it needs to be in the paper and not referred to in a website.  Honestly, I can't tell.  4) I'm not sure what "students are developing an interest in digital technologies" means.  Is this required?  What are the outcomes of the course?  How are these outcomes realized? 5) I'm not sure the COVID stuff really fits in this paper.  We get it-it was a problem, but that's not the focus of the paper.  I'd consider deleting or at least minimizing.  

Minor comments:  1) The "of students of the faculty" in the title seems misplaced/ackward.  Is there a place to relocate this or omit it to make the title more succinct?  2) Line 41 on p. 1 is not a sentence. 3) Line 55 refers to "he".  I suggest writing this per the journal's instruction or keeping gender neutral.  3) Add a "to" in line 140.  

Some of the writing could be more succinct.  I'm guessing that the paper may be from someone where English is a second language.  Phrases like, "that the student is during" are not as clean as perhaps they should be.  A suggestion could be to have someone proof the paper.  

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Reviewer 3 Report

COMMENTS

 

 

Sustainability of Czech vocational education and training for the position of construction manager of students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Technology in Brno: Evaluation of a decade of professional practices and the impact of the Covid 19 period

 

Radka Kantová and Vít Motyčka

 

	Comments
Title	·         Suggested the title should be reduced the number of words.
Abstract	·         Suggested the author can made the abstract more concise, compact and cover the important points. An introduction in abstract can be made briefly and then focus on what to be focused in this paper including objective, methodology, impacts and contributions. ·         No need paragraph for abstract. ·         It is better to follow the abstract writing style for the paper and not like the abstract in thesis writing style.
Introduction	·         The introduction serves the purpose of leading the reader from a general subject area to a particular field of research. It establishes the context of the research being conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the hypothesis, question, or research problem, briefly explaining your rationale, methodological approach, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal, and describing the remaining structure of the paper. ·         Suggested the authors can enter the “research gap” to show the gap from the previous study.
Methodology	·         Suggested the authors can show clearly about the type of method use.
Results	·         Acceptable but too short.
Discussion	·         Suggested the author need to rewrite the discussion with correct style. ·         Discussion is a section that clearly discusses the results of the study that has been conducted with previous studies. The authors needs to improve the way of writing in this section by combining the results of the study done with the results of previous studies using appropriate words such as "This study is in line with previous study by..."
Conclusion	·         The author have to do the conclusion to view overall result of the study. ·         Need to write with the correct style and can include the impact or contribution of study to show to reader how the important this study.

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I continue to like the exploration of the internship required for graduation as a topic.  The big problem is that the paper continues to read more like a magazine article than a research paper.  1) There are 12 research questions in  lines 105-140.  I'm not sure the research answers any of these. 2) The abstract talks about the quality of education.  3) The results give the total number of students at each company and some anecdotal evidence of students that continue with a company, the graduates who go on to work with the program, the number of students that completed the internships.  1, 2, and 3 above must align.

I think you've got to take the data you have and write the research questions to that at this point.  Is that significant enough?  I'm not sure.  

I'm not sure I see the value of Table 1 based on your current research questions.  Figure 6 provides much of this data.  What research question are the tables and figures answering?

I'd suggest getting this down to 3-4 meaningful research questions you can clearly answer in the results of the paper.  

At the end, please consider adding limitations of the paper and suggestions for future research.  

There are a few minor items. See "Tus" on line 458, for example.  

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Reviewer 3 Report

Sustainability of Czech vocational education and practical training for the position of construction manager

 

Radka Kantová and Vít Motyčka

 

	Comments
Title	·         Acceptable
Abstract	·         Acceptable
Introduction	·         Can still be improved.
Methodology	·         If this article is a review style, it needs to be clearly stated in the method section. ·         No need to enter things that are not applicable.
Results	·         Acceptable.
Discussion	·         Can still be improved.
Conclusion	·         Where is your conclusion?

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Round 3

Reviewer 2 Report

There are 12 research questions in  lines 105-140.  I'm not sure the research answers any of these.  In order to make this paper worthy of published research, the authors have got to figure out which specific questions their data answers and structure the paper to respond to those questions.  Currently, the abstract talks about quality; there are 12 research questions in the front part of the paper that are never answered directly; and the results resolve perhaps something that is related to the questions.  It is just not clear and succinct.  

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