Professional competence (PC) in todays education systems has increased considerably in many domains. How to measure them is challenging?
You can use situated performance: so you can observe the action's quality and the interaction level.
You're right that this is a challenge. It's important to remember that a competency isn't a summative thing. Rather, a competency is better thought of as a function of performance. If you think of it this way, you have multiple (researchable) options to determine competence. One approach is to leverage the back-end data of the systems you're using to develop some measure of performance evaluation. Two co-authors and I have recently finished a book chapter about the different methods for performance evaluation (attached, without final citation).
I like to think of measuring the development of a individual learnr's competency as exactly that: a development process that occurs over time and as a function of many variables. The most important in my research are perceived levels of support, mental and emotional intelligence (or age in some cases), prior experience and performance in similar domains, level of tsk-focused effort, goal orientation, self-efficacy or confidence level for this time and expected future times, and how much the learner values the particular competency being developed. Very often is only a few powerful variables related to the context and culture of the learning environment and how positive the perceived relationships and support re in eliciting the will to learn and develop new skills and competencies.
Dear Barbara
i agree with your answer, the variable you are suggesting are ok. i will try to build matrics using these varibales.
Schrader,interesting.I always thought performance is a function of competency.
Dinesh your question is very interesting Competency is an overall mastery of the conceptual variability in the integrated format rather than isolated variables.A core evaluation tool need to be standardized or criterion referenced evaluation can suffice.But lesser subjective tools can add to vagueness.
Dear Ashok sir
i am trying to build matrics and formative or subjective is not enough thats why i am collecting opinions of respected professionals and experts.
Competence is much more than a sum of competencies, so we only can infered competence based in multiple elements. The Cheetham and Chivers (1998) model of professional competence put this idea in evidence.
Thanks Paula for your input, i will go through this model and have a detail look for the parameters.
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