Training course programme for framework developers

Description

Programme for a 5 days short course that provides industry, VET and professional body personnel/ experts with the knowledge, skills and techniques to construct relevant and effective professional standards and competence frameworks or occupational profiles for their sector.

Contents

• Concepts and models of competence; internal and external approaches
• Key properties – contextual coverage, resilience to change, non-discrimination, appropriate level of detail, effective communication
• Level of occupational complexity, threshold level and level of progression
• Choosing and using different methods for researching and developing the content of competence frameworks
• Structuring competence frameworks
• Writing competence statements – including logic, clarity of language, assessability
• Common problems and pitfalls
• Consultation and trialling, including sample selection, methods, limiting factors including response effect and selective bias, analysis and use of results.