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Kang, YoungJu; Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2015
The purpose of this research was to identify the competencies of an educational technologist via a job announcement analysis. Four hundred job announcements were collected from a variety of online job databases over a 5-month period. Following a systematic process of collection, documentation, and analysis, we derived over 150 knowledge, skill,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Competence, Occupational Information, Job Analysis
Garrigues, Sarah M. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Directors too often rely primarily on their hunches to guide them in employee selection. But what if their hunches are only 30 percent correct? Potentially, one bad hire could be responsible for a noticeable decrease in enrollment and, as a result, the school's net revenue. In this article, the author discusses the Competency-Based Behavioral…
Descriptors: Competence, Career Counseling, Interviews, Personnel Evaluation
Wesselink, Renate; Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2011
This qualitative study explores the meanings and possible merits of introducing competence profiles for enhancing professional development in the environmental education sector in the Netherlands. It presents the three most important environmental education jobs and their underlying competencies alongside their core professional challenges, as…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Professional Development

Thomas, Mary Norris – Performance Improvement, 2000
Explains output-based job descriptions, which describe the work rather than the worker. Topics include identifying job outputs; job analyses; identifying skills and competencies as support elements; and benefits over traditional job descriptions, including help in achieving business goals, use in strategic planning, clarifying role relationships,…
Descriptors: Competence, Job Analysis, Occupational Information, Organizational Objectives

Orr, Leslie L. – Performance Improvement, 2001
Explains how to develop job profiles that describe the output expected from employees and the competencies required to meet the output so that managers understand and appreciate what their employees actually do. Discusses needs assessments and how clear descriptions of competencies, skills, knowledge, and values are useful in developing training.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Competence, Job Analysis
Darrah, Charles N. – 1992
The "rhetoric of skill requirements" is a way of describing work by decomposing the human contribution into distinct components. Three important characteristics of this rhetoric are especially germane to an understanding of work. The first characteristic is that jobs and their incumbents can be fully analyzed by breaking them down into skills.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Competence, Employment
Iowa Univ., Iowa City. Coll. of Education. – 1990
A survey was conducted of completers of the rehabilitation aide programs at Hawkeye Institute of Technology and Indian Hills Community College (Iowa). Of 95 mailed surveys, 35 were completed and returned. Respondents reported working in residential facilities, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. They indicated which competencies they…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Competence, Competency Based Education, Course Content
Wheeler, Jeanette D. – 1982
This module, the second of four units about vocational competency measurement, is module 18 in the Vocational Education Curriculum Specialist series. The purpose stated for the document is to help vocational educators determine the specific job-related competencies that need to be tested. Content is organized into two sections, each of which…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education, Inservice Education
Pinto, Ana Maria Rezende; Araujo e Oliveira, Joao Batista – 1992
In Brazil, electronic technicians are increasingly being asked to perform a number of technical and nontechnical tasks, for which they need complex education and training or multiskilling. The typical tasks faced by electronic technicians require a relatively high level of abstraction and symbolic learning. Required skills cover a broad range of…
Descriptors: Automation, Competence, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Liaroutzos, Olivier; Sulzer, Emmanuel; Besucco, Nathalie; Lozier, Francoise – Training & Employment, 2002
The French worker certification system is focusing on efforts to design a scheme for the accreditation of work-based learning. If implemented, the scheme would be directed by a business-government-worker partnership, recognized and accepted by different occupations, and accessible to all employees regardless of the way their qualifications were…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Adult Education, Competence, Competency Based Education