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Janet S. Millikan; Susan W. Arendt – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2023
Unparalleled changes in dietetics education are underway with a new competency-based model and graduate degree requirements. This two-phase mixed methods study explored dietetics directors' perceptions of costs and benefits to implement the new model. First, e-Delphi participants identified 34 cost and 22 benefit items, which were then used to…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Dietetics, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
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Sundby, Anniken Hotvedt; Karseth, Berit – Curriculum Journal, 2022
'The knowledge question', addressing what students need to know and learn, becomes particularly relevant during the process of a new school reform. This paper examines the political messages and the role of knowledge in the current curriculum reform initiative for primary and secondary education in Norway (2020). The study is based on a document…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Course Content, Competency Based Education
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Saulnier, Bruce; Ceccucci, Wendy; Sendall, Patricia; Peslak, Alan – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
This paper invites Computer Information System (CIS) program stakeholders to consider several strategic issues. They include: Curriculum & Pedagogy, Business Model & Value Proposition, Increasingly Diverse Student Body, and Student Success & Completion. These strategic issues are those in which faculty have the ability to provide the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Information Systems, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
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Wheelahan, Leesa – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
Australia's vocational education and training (VET) qualifications comprise units of competency that are bundled together in qualifications and nestled in training packages developed for particular industries. This article argues that this model is broken and cannot be fixed by patching bits of the system. Competency-based training (CBT) is based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
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Akvazba, Ekaterina O.; Gabysheva, Lyudmila K.; Medvedev, Pavel S.; Skok, Natalya I.; Ukhabina, Tatyana E. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The relevance of studying the problem is conditioned by a number of circumstances existing in the Russian social education. Among the most important ones, the following should be named: having to bring the Russian education close to and harmonize it with the European one in line with the Bologna requirements, the need to overcome its excessive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Training Methods, Models
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Markle, Ross – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
From 2006 to 2008, Educational Testing Service (ETS) produced a series of reports titled "A Culture of Evidence", designed to capture a changing climate in higher education assessment. A decade later, colleges and universities already face a new set of challenges resulting from societal, technological, and various other influences. ETS…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Scores
Sturgis, Chris – iNACOL, 2016
In the upper northeast corner of the United States, the commitment to competency education has grown so strong that entire states are embracing it through high-leverage comprehensive policies. Of the six New England states -- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont -- four have established comprehensive state…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, State Policy, Educational Policy, Student Certification
Book, Patricia A. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2014
The perceived value of postsecondary education to economic competitiveness and individual success is driving innovation in higher education. Competency-based education (CBE) is the latest disruption that seeks to respond to the growing sense of national urgency to boost education attainment. The target audience generally includes those adult…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models, Courses
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Jacobson, Trudi E.; Mackey, Thomas P. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
Metaliteracy is envisioned as a comprehensive model for information literacy to advance critical thinking and reflection in social media, open learning settings, and online communities. At this critical time in higher education, an expansion of the original definition of information literacy is required to include the interactive production and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Definitions, Models, Educational Practices
Johnston, Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2011
Proficiency-Based Education is a contemporary instructional model that grew out of the competency-based education movement of the 1980's and 90's. It is based on the premise that TIME is flexible and that students work at their own pace until they have mastered necessary content and skills. As students demonstrate proficiency, then move on to more…
Descriptors: Credits, Competency Based Education, Remedial Programs, Models
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Ridley, Charles R.; Mollen, Debra; Kelly, Shannon M. – Counseling Psychologist, 2011
Heeding the call to the profession, the authors present both a definition and model of counseling competence. Undergirding the model are 15 foundational principles. The authors conceptualize counseling competence as more complex and nuanced than do traditional microskills models and include cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. The…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Competence, Models, Educational Principles
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Hatcher, Robert L. – Counseling Psychologist, 2011
Focusing on the challenges of training counseling psychologists, Ridley and colleagues offer in this issue a review and critique of microskills training, the dominant training model in counseling psychology graduate programs. Recognizing the role of higher order cognitive and affective functions in expert practice, they propose a hierarchical…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counseling Psychology, Competence, Models
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Schulze, Uwe; Gryl, Inga; Kanwischer, Detlef – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
Based on the idea of Spatial Citizenship, which endeavours to promote individuals' maturity and participation in the geospatial society, we focus on teachers' competence in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) teaching and learning. By employing methods of qualitative social research, we have determined the dimensions and structures…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Geographic Information Systems, Qualitative Research, Teacher Education Programs
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Benson, Fiona; Hooton, Kate – Global Education Review, 2014
This paper explores the many and diverse factors that have driven changes to the field-based component of a program of teacher education in a large Canadian university over the past 10 years. We look at key contexts of influence to any work in program change; that of internal and external bodies at the institutional level, the operational or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Student Teaching
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Owen, Susanne; Stupans, Ieva – Journal of Learning Design, 2009
Preparing graduates for the professions is increasingly recognised as involving a partnership approach to curriculum design, implementation and evaluation. Experiential placements play a critical role in developing discipline-specific knowledge and skills and also generic professional dispositions including relationships, communication, problem…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Curriculum Development, Pharmacy, Experiential Learning
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