Measuring What Matters: Competency-Based Learning Models in Higher Education New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 110

by Voorhees, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780787914110
• ISBN10: 0787914118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Intended as a toolkit for academic administrators, facultyand researchers to deal effectively with the rapid emergence of competency-based learning models across higher education, this volume provides practical advice and proven techniques for implementing and evaluating these models. Drawing from a recent National Postsecondary Education Cooperative project that examined data and policy implications across public and private institutions as well as an industrial setting, readers will find an inventory of strong practices to utilize in evaluating competency-based initiatives. Issues discussed include practical concerns of measuring and reporting competency; the critical connections between the skills employers seek and student preparation for them; the connections between distance education, accrediation, and competencies; and the difficult procedure of setting appropriate passing standards for assessments. With a bibliography on competency literature and a framework for creating competency models, this volume is an invaluable tool to researchers and practitioners alike.This is the 110th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Institutional Research.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	1	(4)
Richard A. Voorhees
Competency-Based Learning Models: A Necessary Future	5	(10)
Richard A. Voorhees
Working in Partnership with Faculty to Transform Undergaraduate Curricula	15	(14)
Elizabeth A. Jones
Measuring and Reporting Competencies	29	(12)
Trudy H. Bers
Using Competencies to Connect the Workplace and Postsecondary Education	41	(14)
Karen Paulson
Standard Setting	55	(10)
T. Dary Erwin
Steven L. Wise
Competencies, Regional Accreditation, and Distance Education: An Evolving Role?	65	(18)
Dawn Geronimo Terkla
Creating and Implementing Competency-Based Learning Models	83	(14)
Alice Bedard Voorhees
An Annotated Bibliography on Competencies	97	(16)
Karen Paulson
Index	113