Introducing an artifact for the assessment of transversal professional competences

Abstract

This paper departs from a project conducted with the Trade and Craft sector of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Economics. A design science perspective scaffolds the development of an artifact, the net of competences, to support the assessment of transversal professional competences in the validation of prior formal, non-formal and informal learning. This paper contributes to theory by arguing for a structural functional equivalence between a real spider-web and the structure of the net of competences. A process perspective shows how different stakeholders interact in the net of competences. Specifically, we pose the research question “How to assess transversal professional competences?”. To answer this question, we describe the design of a self-assessment by outlining item generation, generation of verb levels and the triangulation of items and verbs to create nodes in the net of competences. Abstracting from the previous, we present the algorithm on which the net of competences is based. © 2020 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

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Index Keywords

Professional aspects professional competence Informal learning Non-formal learning Research questions Scaffolds Self-assessment Design science Functional equivalence Item generation Spider web Structural-functional

Author Affiliations

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Science and Research, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Austria

Funding & Acknowledgements

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020

Grant: 645751

Funding text 1: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF - eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.; Funding text 2: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF \u2013 eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.

Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft, FFG

Grant: 866270, PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018

Funding text 1: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF - eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.; Funding text 2: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF \u2013 eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.

Grant: 27001223

Funding text 1: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF - eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.; Funding text 2: This work was partially funded by the EU H2020 program under MSCA-RISE agreement 645751 (RISE BPM), FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project number: 866270), UNIRIO (PQ-UNIRIO N01/2018) and IAGF \u2013 eine Lernende Organisation (project number: 27001223). We thank Alexander G\u00FCtler who programmed the ICT-artifact and provided a technical description of the artifact.

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Introducing an artifact for the assessment of transversal professional competences

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