Assessing Graduate Attributes: Building a Criteria-Based Competency Model

Autor/inn/en	Ipperciel, Donald; ElAtia, Samira
Titel	Assessing Graduate Attributes: Building a Criteria-Based Competency Model
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 3 (2014) 3, S.27-38 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; College Graduates; Student Characteristics; Competency Based Education; Models; Comparative Analysis; Student Evaluation; Theories; Competence; Student Attitudes; Scholarship; Critical Thinking; Ethics; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Analogiemodell; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Theory; Theorie; Kompetenz; Schülerverhalten; Scholarships; Stipendium; Kritisches Denken; Ethik; Kanada
Abstract	Graduate attributes (GAs) have become a necessary framework of reference for the 21st century competency-based model of higher education. However, the issue of evaluating and assessing GAs still remains unchartered territory. In this article, we present a criteria-based method of assessment that allows for an institution-wide comparison of the various acquisition levels of different GAs. In order to achieve this, we first propose an understanding of GAs as knowledge, skills and attitude constructs, which directly impacts the operational development of GA scales. Second, after briefly discussing some shortcomings in current assessment/evaluation tests for GAs, we present the many features of the criteria-based model for assessing GAs, such as the importance of the proper interpretation of GAs as can-do statements, a theory-based development of the abstract categories that make up a scale for GA assessment and concrete examples of GA scales based on these abstract theories. (As Provided).
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