Modeling, Measurement, and Development of Professional Competence in Industrial-Technical Professions
This chapter provides an overview of the relevant research on professional competencies in industrial-technical fields, focusing on the nonacademic level. First, we outline the findings on structures of competencies and proficiency scaling which apply acr
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Modeling, Measurement, and Development of Professional Competence in IndustrialTechnical Professions Florina Ștefӑnicӑ, Stephan Abele, Felix Walker, and Reinhold Nickolaus
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Present research work in the area of modeling, measurement and development of professional competence reflects different impulses: 1. The use of the concept of competence in the international context for defining aims of educational processes 2. The movement towards a stronger output orientation of educational systems 3. The agreements on the recognition of certificates and certifications of competencies needed in the international context and especially in the EU, as we find them in the European Qualification Framework and the National Qualification Frameworks 4. The efforts to implement a large-scale assessment of the area of vocational education 5. The implementation of management systems for competencies, which is increasingly gaining importance in companies 6. The dynamics of qualification requirements, which have sharpened the awareness of the fact that the individuals’ potential can only be used efficiently in performance situations if their development is not exclusively oriented to fulfilling the current qualification requirements 7. The assumption that the employees’ competencies represent the main competitive factor of developed economies.
F. Ștefӑnicӑ (*) • S. Abele • R. Nickolaus University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany e-mail: [email protected] F. Walker University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 M. Mulder (ed.), Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education, Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41713-4_39
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Furthermore, this research work is inspired by the initiation of numerous research programs (in Germany) which focus on the evidence-based modeling of professional competence and the development of reliable instruments for measuring them. In the last years, several programs in this field were carried out, e. g., the priority program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes” (see SPP Competence Models homepage) and the program “Technology-based assessment of Skills and Competencies in VET” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (see ASCOT homepage). Furthermore, at the end of the first phase of a special program on the measurement of competencies in tertiary education (Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education – KoKoHs, see KoKoHs homepage), the program shall be continued until 2019. This chapter provides an overview of the relevant research in industrial-technical fields, focusing on occupational fields at the nonacademic level. In our overview, we outline the findings on the structures of competencies and proficiency scaling which apply across fields, reflecting the relevant state of research withi
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