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Bounekkar, Ahmed; Cauvet, Corine; Desmoulins, Cyrille; Marquie, Daniel; Schneider, Michel; Souveyet, Carine; Teyssie, Cédric – Cogent Education, 2022
Competency repositories have been developed for several years with various objectives: helping to establish competency assessments, helping with recruitment, helping to build training. A repository can bring together the descriptions of several hundred competencies. However, few studies have focused on the structuring of a competency repository.…
Descriptors: Competence, Archives, Information Systems, Prerequisites
Yang Yu; Faye Duchin – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This paper proposes a new approach for combining top-down and bottom-up approaches intended to lead to a curriculum for action in the public interest that builds on social entrepreneurship and digital skills for students at community colleges. This integrated approach requires a collaborative, participatory approach and aims to provide relevant…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Entrepreneurship, Social Problems, Curriculum Development
Forcael, Eric; Garces, Gonzalo; Orozco, Francisco – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: To guide engineering educators on the complex path of understanding how to teach future engineers and how they can help engineering students to obtain the professional competencies required by frameworks and syllabus, based on didactic techniques that determine an orderly learning process. Background: University education is…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Competence, Competency Based Education, Role of Education
Martín Erro, Alfonso; Nuere Menéndez-Pidal, Silvia; Díaz-Obregón Cruzado, Raúl; Acitores Suz, Adela – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2022
Visual literacy is essential for engineers. Technological professions have important visual characterization, both in the transmission of information and problem-solving. This means that future engineers must be proficient at communicating, thinking, and learning visually. However, engineering curricula takes partially the need to have visually…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Competence, Engineering Education, Competency Based Education
Smedick, Bill; Rice, Eric – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2018
This chapter provides an overview of leadership competencies and ways in which colleges and universities can use competency assessment as a tool for current leadership education offerings to assist professionals in revising and expanding programming to better enable their students to become career ready.
Descriptors: Leadership, Competence, Competency Based Education, Student Evaluation
Vitello, Sylvia; Greatorex, Jackie; Shaw, Stuart – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2021
The aim of this report is to build a shared understanding of competence by providing clarity around the concept and its implications for educational practice. The authors present an understanding of competence that is research-based, relevant and appropriate for diverse educational contexts. This will help to create stimulating, thoughtful and…
Descriptors: Competence, Definitions, Educational Practices, Competency Based Education
Telling, Kathryn; Serapioni, Martino – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
The principal aim of this article is to provide a historical overview of 25 years of competence policy in the European Union, highlighting connections between past and current initiatives and outlining possible scenarios for the decade to come. The article presents the social investment turn in social policy as the critical political background…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Competence, Foreign Countries
Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, 2019
The Total Learning Architecture (TLA) program sponsored by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative seeks to develop a set of policy and standards defining the process for developing a "learning ecology," where multiple services and learning opportunities (of various modalities and points of delivery) can be managed in an…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Ecology, Delivery Systems, Learning Analytics
Almutiry, Muhannad; Alshehri, Mohammad Y.; Sayed, Gary – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Higher education is challenged by workforce needs to transform its outcomes from "knowledge-based" to "competency-based" outcomes. High-impact educational practices, commonly referred to as HIPs, provide, among other benefits, efficacious development of workforce-ready specific competencies. Strategic implementation of HIPs has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Competence
Devaney, Elizabeth – American Institutes for Research, 2015
During the past 20 years, the afterschool field has been held accountable in varying ways--first, on the ability to provide safe places for young people to spend time while their parents work; then, on success in helping to improve participants' academic achievement as a supplement to the school day. Today, measuring success in afterschool…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Socialization, Emotional Development, Definitions
Roegiers, Xavier – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2016
There can be no denying the influence of competencies on the development of the school and its curricula. It is increasingly the case that, to enrol in a socio-economic fabric, whether locally or globally, learners--male or female--must learn to place their knowledge and know-how at the service of action: they must be able to deal with complex…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Performance Factors, Competency Based Education, Minimum Competencies
Harney, John O. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This article picks up on columnist Mike Barnicle's lazy style and "I was just thinking" format in his column for the "Boston Globe." Using that model, John Harney shares a few of his thoughts on various education topics such as co ops, "competency-based education," and making civics part of the curriculum at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Qualifications, Competency Based Education, Competence
Surr, Wendy; Redding, Sam – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2017
In order to be successful in the 21st century, students will need to master an expanded set of competencies that extends beyond discrete academic standards. Competency-based education (CBE) is an educational approach that focuses on mastery of these competencies -- rather than seat time -- as a measure of student learning. This approach is being…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Competence
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2015
Around half of Europe's population acquires their first job-related skills through vocational education and training (VET). Many more develop those skills and learn new ones through continuing training and other forms of learning at the workplace. VET is central to the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Job Skills
Csiernik, Rick; McGaghran, Christie – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
Historically, addiction has been an area in which Canadian social workers have received limited formal education. This reality led to the development of 18 core technical competencies through the auspices of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse in 2006. A survey of Canadian schools and faculties of social work found that social work students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Drug Addiction, Graduate Students