Assessment of Key Competencies – A Conceptual Framework
Adomßent, M., Barth, M., Beringer, A. (eds.): World in Transition - Sustainability Perspectives for Higher Education, VAS Verlag, 93-100, 2009
9 Pages Posted: 4 Nov 2012
Date Written: July 1, 2007
Abstract
While the notion of critical competencies and the need for competence development is widely accepted, there still is a lack of theoretical grounded approaches to describe and operationalise such competencies as well as methods for measuring key competencies. This is certainly not least due to some general challenges the measuring of key competencies is confronted with: particularly heavily abstracting and generalised key competencies face the problem that key factors of these competencies are hardly measurable and may only be compared with difficulties.
In the Article, necessary steps for the measurement of key competencies are discussed on the basis of four theses, whereas their consequences are presented by using the development of possible approaches to the key competency “ability to collaborate inter- and transdisciplinarily” as an example.
Keywords: Higher education, education for sustainable development, competence development, competence assessment
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