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Direct linkAugustin, T.; Hockemeyer, C.; Kickmeier-Rust, M.; Albert, D. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
The assessment of knowledge and learning progress in the context of game-based learning requires novel, noninvasive, and embedded approaches. In the present paper, we introduce a mathematical framework which relates the (problem solution) behavior of a learner in the game context to the learner's available and lacking competencies. We argue that a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mathematics Instruction, Definitions, Educational Games
Download full textNational Postsecondary Education Cooperative. – 1999
This interim report presents the framework for classifying competency-based initiatives developed by the NPEC (National Postsecondary Education Cooperative) Working Group. Section 1 presents a structure for classifying competency initiatives based upon student progression into, within, and from postsecondary education. Key applications of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Check Lists
Trent, E. Roger; Golden, Edna – North Central Association Quarterly, 1981
Relates the procedures and findings of a study of minimum competency programs (MCPs) in four Ohio school districts, focusing on: (1) operational definitions of MCPs; (2) the effects of MCPs on student achievement; and (3) the usefulness of the evaluation model used in the study for local evaluations. (AYC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Herrscher, Barton R. – Community College Frontiers, 1981
Underscores the problems of misunderstanding and misrepresentation in competency-based education (CBE). Proposes a definition of CBE, acknowledging that it must be adapted to individual colleges. Offers a rationale for adopting a CBE framework and provides an inventory model to facilitate the assessment of the quality of a CBE program. (CAM)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Definitions, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Development
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Bernard – Educational Horizons, 1979
Citing William Spady's distinction between capacity and competence, the author asserts that current competency tests mainly measure academic (capacity) not life (competency) skills. He then considers problems inherent in delineating, teaching, and testing essential practical living competencies and presents some alternatives. Part of a theme issue…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills, Definitions
Bunda, Mary Anne, Ed.; Sanders, James R., Ed. – 1979
Three basic areas of definition, measurement, and research, voiced as concerns by members of the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) to its Task Force on Measurement Problems in Competency-Based Programs, are used as an organizer for a sponsored symposia and the papers in this monograph. The problem of the definition of competency…
Descriptors: Certification, Competence, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Klemp, George O., Jr. – 1980
This introduction and overview is part of a seven-section report that investigates how individual competence is defined and assessed in the settings of education and work. Following background rationale, the first portion develops a definition of competence as "a characteristic of an individual that underlies effective work performance."…
Descriptors: Adults, Certification, Competence, Competency Based Education
