Competence Assessment in Education

Competence Assessment in Education
Author: Detlev Leutner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319500309

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which focused on competence assessment across disciplines in Germany. The six-year program coordinated 30 research projects involving experts from the fields of psychology, educational science, and subject-specific didactics. The main reference point for all projects is the concept of “competencies,” which are defined as “context-specific cognitive dispositions that are acquired and needed to successfully cope with certain situations or tasks in specific domains” (Koeppen et al., 2008, p. 62). The projects investigate different aspects of competence assessment: The primary focus lies on the development of cognitive models of competencies, complemented by the construction of psychometric models based on these theoretical models. In turn, the psychometric models constitute the basis for the construction of instruments for effectively measuring competencies. The assessment of competencies plays a key role in optimizing educational processes and improving the effectiveness of educational systems. This book contributes to this challenging endeavor by meeting the need for more integrative, interdisciplinary research on the structure, levels, and development of competencies.

Competence Assessment Tools for Health-System Pharmacies

Competence Assessment Tools for Health-System Pharmacies
Author: Lee B. Murdaugh
Publisher: ASHP
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1585283118

Since its original publication, Competence Assessment Tools for Health-System Pharmacies has continued to meet the changing needs of pharmacy directors and their staff. Designed as a complete human resource competence assessment program, this benchmark resource ensures pharmacies comply with the competence assessment standards of The Joint Commission. Newly updated and revised, Competence Assessment provides practical tools to assess and document an employee’s ability to perform assigned duties and meet Joint Commission human resource requirements. Save time and increase efficiency with this essential tool that supplements and reinforces staff knowledge in key competency areas.

The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Health Care

The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Health Care
Author: Donna K. Wright
Publisher: Creative Health Care Management
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1886624666

It is time to move your competency assessment process beyond meeting regulatory standards to creating excellence The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Health Care is packed with ready-to-use tools designed to help you develop, implement and evaluate competencies. More than that, you will find a new way of thinking about competency assessment - a way that is outcome-focused and accountability-based. With over 20,000 copies sold world-wide, it is the most trusted resource on competency assessment available.

Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards

Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards
Author: Mien Segers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781402013577

This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. It addresses relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective and, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches.

ICT Fluency and High Schools

ICT Fluency and High Schools
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2006-07-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309180708

Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern life-educational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages that enable ICT competencies acquired in one domain to benefit another, this goal has largely remained unrealized. In particular, while technology skills and applications at work could be greatly enhanced by earlier complementary learning at school-particularly in K-12 education, a formative and influential stage in a person's life-little progress has been made on such linkages. At present, the curricula of most U.S. high schools focus on skills in the use of tools such as specific word-processing software or contemporary Internet search engines. Although these kinds of skills are certainly valuable-at least for a while-they comprise just one component, and the most rudimentary component, of ICT competencies. The National Academies held a workshop in October 2005 to address the specifics of ICT learning during the high school years would require an explicit effort to build on that report. The workshop was designed to extend the work begun in the report Being Fluent with Information Technology, which identified key components of ICT fluency and discussed their implications for undergraduate education. ICT Fluency and High Schools summarizes the workshop, which had three primary objectives: (1) to examine the need for updates to the ICT-fluency framework presented in the 1999 study; (2) to identify and analyze the most promising current efforts to provide in high schools many of the ICT competencies required not only in the workplace but also in people's day-to-day functioning as citizens; and (3) to consider what information or research is needed to inform efforts to help high school students develop ICT fluency.

Performance Assessments for Adult Education

Performance Assessments for Adult Education
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309084539

In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and limited English proficient adults. Those receiving adult education services have diverse reasons for seeking additional education. With the passage of the WIA, the assessment of adult education students became mandatory-regardless of their reasons for seeking services. The law does allow the states and local programs flexibility in selecting the most appropriate assessment for the student. The purpose of the NRC's workshop was to explore issues related to efforts to measure learning gains in adult basic education programs, with a focus on performance-based assessments.

Competency Assessment

Competency Assessment
Author: Brenda Gail Summers
Publisher: Hcpro Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Health facilities
ISBN: 9781601462510

Competency Assessment, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to the Joint Commission Brenda G. Summers, MBA/MHA, MSN, RN, CNAA-BC; WendySue Woods, RN, CSHA, MHSA Your one-stop competency compliance guide. Competency Assessment remains among The Joint Commission's top problematic standards. You need a resource that not only explains exactly how to comply with this perennial problem area but also provides real-time tools to evaluate competency. To help you, we've updated our "must-have" competency assessment resource: "Competency Assessment: A Practical Guide to the Joint Commission Standards, Third Edition." You'll have the information and tools you need to achieve compliance. Population-specific competencies, ongoing assessment...we'll help you comply We understand your need for more than just theorizing on the competency assessment standards. That's why this edition of "Competency Assessment" focuses on ongoing competency and validating competency in accordance with Joint Commission standards. You get an easy-to-reference guide with the very best real-world strategies, the most useful forms, and the most practical tools you can incorporate into your own competency assessment program immediately, including: Sample Orientation Outline Competency Assessment Tool Sample Questions for Self-Assessment Six Steps to a Successful Competency Assessment Program Job Descriptions List of Questions Surveyors Might Ask Sample Population-Specific Components Two posters you can hang in your facility to make sure everyone is aware of your commitment to competency assessment Ongoing Competence Decision Tree REAL-LIFE Case Study One of the most useful features of "Competency Assessment: A Practical Guide to the Joint Commission Standards, Third Edition," is a valuable real-life case study. You'll learn how an Ohio hospital put one of the authors' techniques into action, and how they benefited as a result.BONUS This valuable resource includes a CD-ROM full of job descriptions and competency plans you can customize to meet your facility's needs. This book and CD-ROM set is your perfect solution to competency assessment compliance. With your copy close at hand, you'll: UNDERSTAND the intent of each Joint Commission standard and how best to comply and demonstrate compliance to surveyors LEARN how to assess competency, including population-served (age-specific) competencies CREATE effective strategies for carrying out ongoing competency assessments CUSTOMIZE the tools and techniques provided for your competency assessment program BENEFIT from knowing what to do with the results of your assessments Your staff must be qualified to perform their job; your patients' health--and lives--rest in their hands. Ensure a strong competency management system with this hands-on, how-to compliance guide.

Beyond Testing (Classic Edition)

Beyond Testing (Classic Edition)
Author: Caroline Gipps
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136592954

It is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of assessment, and I am (along with anyone else who broods about education) much in your debt. Jerome Bruner, personal communication with the authorWhen this award-winning book was originally published in 1994, a review in the TES said: Beyond Testing is a refreshingly honest look at the dilemmas faci

Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia

Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia
Author: Jens Drummer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319730932

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The volume presents papers on vocational education, project-based learning and science didactic approaches, illustrating with sample cases, and with a special focus on Central Asian states. Thematically embedded in the area of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), the book examines the following main topics: project-based learning (PBL), specific didactics with a linkage to food technologies and laboratory didactics, media and new technologies in TVET, evaluation of competencies including aspects of measurement, examination issues, and labour market and private sector issues in TVET, and research methods with a focus on empirical research and the role of scientific networks. It presents outcomes from TVET programmes at various universities, colleges, and teacher training institutes in Central Asia.