Items related to COMPETENCE-BASED ASSESSMENT CL (Assessing Assessment)
Synopsis
Competence-based assessment is the cornerstone of the UK Government's reforms of vocational training and of non-academic, full-time education post-16. Australia has adopted similar policies, and there is considerable interest in the notion of 'competence' in both Europe and North America.
Alison Wolf describes the main characteristics of the competence-based approach as it has emerged in the UK, and traces its origins in American experimental programmes of the 1970s. The arguments for the approach are discussed in detail.
She then analyses the theoretical assumptions which competence-based assessment shares with the criterion-referenced movement as a whole, and synthesizes the growing body of evidence on implementation. Finally, she reviews the prospects for competence-based awards, and offers some conclusions on what is essential to a competence-based approach.
Alison Wolf is a Reader in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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Review
"...balanced and concise..." - Times Educational Supplement "This is an excellent book...I am sure that it will find its way onto the reading lists of many courses concerned with training and education issues." - Competence Bulletin "...it makes a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding assessment and it provides an informative and considered view of the background, current position and future prospects for competence-based assessment." - Journal of Curriculum Studies
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