Frameworks of competence: common or specific?
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Frameworks of competence:
common or specific?
Simon Grant
Joint coordinator, JISC-CETIS Portfolio SIG
Independent consultant
… emerging from work in collaboration with
Adam Marshall, Janet Strivens and others
Outline
Hoping for “real” workshop interaction
Constructivist approach to this workshop…
Discuss requirements of frameworks
How do / could you use them in practice?
Focus on common / specific tension
How does this match with our experience?
Explore the way forward
Note: “skill” – “competence” distinction may be important in other
contexts, but less so here
How do you use frameworks?
managing skills and competences in an
organisation or enterprise?
helping learners develop their own skills?
definition of learning objectives and
educational outcomes?
any real / imagined use for public, international
standard definitions of competence?
anyone involved with EQF? Used how?
SFIA
Skills Framework for the Information Age
Example of widely used industry skills
framework (in UK, generic ICT skills)
http://www.sfia.org.uk/
Look at some materials
LUSID
Originally from University of Liverpool
Handouts available
E-PDP system; close to e-portfolio
Skills, activities, achievements, goals, …
http://lusid.org.uk/
Originally devised for generic or
transferable skills
Can be easily customised
Transferable skills
Management of learning
Teamwork
Oral communication
Writing
Information accessing
Critical thinking / analysis
Numeracy
Information technology
e.g. Oral communication
Understanding instructions
Making notes from presentation
Assessing persuasive language
Recognise feelings of others*
Conveying information clearly
Explaining own opinions
Exchanging ideas
Preparing presentation
Using visual aids
Delivering presentation
Taking into account other people’s perspectives*
Common or specific?
Why should frameworks be common?
Why should frameworks not be specific?
discuss
Why should frameworks be specific?
Why should frameworks not be common?
discuss
SPWS
“Skills Profiling Web Service”
http://www.elframework.org/projects/spws
Articulates the common-specific
distinctions
Proposes a way forward
Common and specific
Concluding…
Common where agreement wanted
Narrow, specific terms more likely to be agreed
Create common reference terms
Use level structures only if very common
Specific where diversity allowable
For specific implementations
Teaching, learning and assessment
Individual organisations and businesses
Links between common and specific
Overlap analysis then possible