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Montrosse-Moorhead, Bianca; Gambino, Anthony J.; Yahn, Laura M.; Fan, Mindy; Vo, Anne T. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
A budding area of research is devoted to studying evaluator curriculum, yet to date, it has focused exclusively on describing the content and emphasis of topics or competencies in university-based programs. This study aims to expand the foci of research efforts and investigates the extent to which evaluators agree on what competencies should guide…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Doctoral Programs, Competence, Competency Based Education
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Vaskova Kjulavkovska, Maja; Serafini, Giovanni Oscar; Szamosi, Leslie Thomas – International Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Competency-based training (CBT) is gaining popularity as an approach towards creating a highly skilled workforce while reducing the skill gaps faced by industry. Integrated within an organisation's management systems, it can lead to benefits such as increased productivity and strengthened employee engagement. While CBT of aviation industry…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Aviation Education, Pilot Projects, Employees
Vander Els, Jonathan G.; Stack, Brian M. – Solution Tree, 2022
When implemented effectively, competency-based education (CBE) promotes high levels of learning for every student. Further, the practices and structures of a professional learning community (PLC) support this work. Explore a variety of perspectives and examples from educators who have shifted to CBE with great results. The book details how to do…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction
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Melissa Barnes; Kate Lafferty; Bingqing Li – Educational Review, 2024
There is global recognition of the need to teach and assess complex competencies, which are often referred to as twenty-first century or work-ready knowledge and skills. While several assessment frameworks have been co-developed by researchers and teachers to assess competencies in schools, little is known about how these frameworks are shaped,…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Student Attitudes
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Chalachew Tarekegne; Renate Wesselink; Harm J. A. Biemans; Martin Mulder – International Journal of Training and Development, 2024
Low yield/hectare gains, food insecurity and environmental unsustainability are challenges experienced by the agriculture sector in Ethiopia despite substantial government investment. Although there are many factors that contribute to the poor performance of the sector, smallholder farmer competence gaps are principal among them. This study aims…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Foreign Countries
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Rosemary Hipkins – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
There is often a steady trajectory of curriculum change under the surface of developments that might seem arbitrary or inconsistent. This article traces the change from key competencies to science capabilities and, most recently, to enduring competencies. All these changes (and names) respond to increasing awareness of the challenges involved in…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries, Science Education
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Parbat Dhungana – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Education expands agency's competency to produce. The expansion of competency and/or product are continuous in education. Education produces and industries reproduce. This essay explains this concept putting them together as competency theory of education. Engagement is important to expand competency; competency is a function of interaction…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Theories, Productivity, Input Output Analysis
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Zaccagnini, Marco; Bussières, André; Mak, Susanne; Boruff, Jill; West, Andrew; Thomas, Aliki – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Scholarly practitioners are broadly defined as healthcare professionals that address critical practice problems using theory, scientific evidence, and practice-based knowledge. Though scholarly practice is included in most competency frameworks, it is unclear what scholarly practice "is," how it "develops" and how it is…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Health Occupations, Health Personnel, Theory Practice Relationship
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Silverthorn, Dee U.; Cafferty, Patrick; Casagrand, Janet; Co, Elizabeth; Flemming, Meg; McFarland, Jenny; O'Loughlin, Valerie; Scott, Derek; Tomicek, Nanette J. – HAPS Educator, 2023
The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) has published a set of learning outcomes to be used for curriculum design of a one-semester introductory physiology course. The outcomes are competency-based and are mapped to core concepts and skills students should develop as undergraduates. This paper is an introduction to how the physiology…
Descriptors: Physiology, Introductory Courses, Curriculum Design, Behavioral Objectives
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Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Shafenberg, Kari – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
An increasing percentage of students entering postsecondary institutions are working at least part-time and balancing multiple identities, responsibilities, and demands on their time and resources. As student demographics change, postsecondary institutions must rise to meet these students where they are. Two effective ways to do that include…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Credits, Prior Learning, Postsecondary Education
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Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Learning to make informed evaluative judgement of holistic competencies prepares students for well-rounded development on a lifelong and self-directed basis. However, a review of the literature reveals that empirical studies framed under evaluative judgement have not yet explicitly acknowledged the judgement of these competencies. If we are to…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Value Judgment, Holistic Approach, Competence
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Pažur Anicic, Katarina; Gusic Mundar, Jelena; Šimic, Diana – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Mastery of generic competences is widely recognized as important for a successful transition from higher education to the world of work, especially in today's networked, digitalized, and globalized environment. This study analyses data of 7201 respondents to the Croatian national graduate survey 2017 on students who graduated in the academic year…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Competence, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
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Noda, Ayaka – Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to examine the rationales for and obstacles to developing a national qualifications framework (NQF) in Japan. From a research perspective, it attempts to propose a model of a qualifications framework in the national context to provoke further political discussion in developing the Japanese Qualifications Framework (JQF).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Models, Mobility
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van der Baan, Niels; Gast, Inken; Gijselaers, Wim; Beausaert, Simon – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The present study proposes coaching as a pedagogical intervention to prepare students for transitioning to the labour market. Taking a competence-based approach, the proposed coaching practice aims to enhance students' employability competences to facilitate a smoother school-to-work transition. However, what transition coaching looks…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Adjustment (to Environment), Competency Based Education, Employment Potential
Kevan, Jonathan Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Competency-Based Education (CBE) is proposed as a model that can solve some of higher education's current challenges including the one size fits all approach to student learning. CBE targets this issue by focusing on a student autonomy and personalized learning approaches; however, successful implementation of this requires students have a level…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models, Undergraduate Students
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