Aligning Assessments Against Competencies
Competencies define the applied skills and knowledge that enable people to successfully perform their work while learning objectives are specific to a course of instruction. Competencies are relevant to an individual's job responsibilities, roles and capabilities. They are a way to verify that a learner has in fact learned what was intended in the learning objectives. Learning objectives describe what the learner should be able to achieve at the end of a learning period. Learning objectives should be specific, measurable statements and written in behavioral terms. In short, objectives say what we want the learners to know and competencies say how we can be certain they know it.
Competency Based Education
While most educators utilize outcomes as their measurement for success, it does not align the specific behaviors or actions a student should learn in their educational environment.
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Wikipedia, Competency-Based Learning. (CC BY-SA 3.0). Retrieved on 08/21/2014.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_learning
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