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Download full textCEDEFOP Flash, 1993
The procedures currently used in the 12 European Community (EC) member countries for certifying the employment qualifications of graduates of full-time vocational education and training programs and/or apprenticeship programs were compared. The comparison, which was based on information obtained from 12 national studies of EC members' education…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Educational Certificates, Employment Qualifications
Hall, William – 1994
Australian research into competency-based training and assessment is very thin and theoretical discussion is often superficial. One curious feature in the Australian debate is the belief by many that competency-based training is possible without competency-based assessment. Definitions are being debated. In a longitudinal study, researchers have…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Development, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Bedford, Helen; And Others – 1993
This report examines the assessment of competence in nursing and midwifery education in Britain within a context of changes in health needs, values about health care and service provision, policy/ideology, and education. Chapter 1 explores alternative approaches to conceptualizing the issues involved in the study of assessment, competence, and…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Davison, Trevor – 1994
A major initiative in Australia is a general and pervasive obsession with competency-based training and assessment. There is a real danger that the selling of competency-based training (CBT) and competency-based assessment (CBA) is greater than what it can offer. One criticism focuses on CBT, the other on CBA, although in most instances where CBT…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance
Newton, Wendy M. – 1993
A major review of vocational education and training has occurred across the United Kingdom since 1986. Employment requirements are being identified in the form of occupational standards that provide the foundation for the new system of vocational qualifications, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). Standards describe what people need to be…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Developed Nations, Educational Certificates, Educational Development
Clayton, Berwyn; Booth, Robin; Roy, Sue – 2001
The introduction of training packages has focused attention on the quality of assessment in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector on the quality of assessment. For the process of mutual recognition under the Australian Recognition Framework (ARF) to work effectively, there needs to be confidence in assessment decisions made…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Developed Nations, Educational Assessment
