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VITA, REVEAL and related projects Competence development and learning LEVEL5 approach and pilot projects. Validating competences for the service economy (2012/2013). Idea: Validating (and developing) competences for the service economy. Results/outcomes: Survey
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VITA, REVEAL and related projects • Competence development and learning • LEVEL5 approach and pilot projects
Idea: Validating (and developing) competences for the service economy • Results/outcomes: • Survey • 2 parts, appr. 150 respondents • Pilot projects: • 8 countries • all educational sectors (AE, schools, universities, VET) • Networking • 2 conferences • VITA award • My-vita e-portfolio • European networking -> REVEAL
European Network for learning, validation and capacity building • Transnational community of European experts and practitioners working in 25 organisations from 22 European member states. • Assessing and evidencing with a uniquevalidation approach specifically designed for: • informally acquired competences • personal and social skills and competences • piloted in more than 100 learning projects and scientifically evaluated in the framework of two European PhD thesis. • to serve especiallytarget groups that learn outside or beside formal education contexts andtheir learning facilitators:adult learning providers, grass-root projects, mobility projects, entrepreneurs, learning on the job, internships …
LEVEL5 An approach and instrument to document and visualise (evidence) competence developments • Especially: • Personal, • Social and • Organisational • competences
Projects • Scope of REVEAL activities in EU-projects: • European home of LEVEL5 and network • Validating, Training, Counselling, Practice-Research • Covering and linking all educational sectors • Providing the e-Portfolio My-VITA as • REVEAL projects and informal learning contexts • ACT: Measuring the impact of informal learning on Active Citizenship (05-09) • ACT-NET Founding the network (REVEAL (2009/2010) • VIP: Competences acquired in EU-projects (2010/2011) • VILMA: Competences acquired in Mobility (2011/2012) • RIVER: Competences acquired in (Senior) volunteers (2012/2013) • PROVIDE: Competences for educational providers (2013-2015) • EYE: Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (2013-xxx) • VITA:Competences for the service economy (2013-2014)
Part 2 Learning Development and Validationof Competences
Swiss Learning Festival 2013 800.000 people with reading and writing difficulties
Competence Definition • A competence is the capacity/potential of a person to apply a synthesis of • Knowledge, • Skills and • Attitudes • in a particular situation* and in a particular quality**. * Context ** LEVEL
Competence: The ability to: „Performance lense“ -> Ideal assessment area „Performance lense“ -> Ideal assessment area Knowledge Quality POTENTIAL (internal) EXPECTATIONS (external) Skills Behaviour Attitudes Context
EUROPASS CV Personal data Cerification System Reference System Sector/Section Higher Education ECTS EQF/NQF Formal VET ECVET EQF/NQF different Languages Other formal certificates IT-skills Other formal certificates IT-Sys Orga. Skills & Comp. ? ? Informal Social Skills & Comp. ? Personal Skills & Comp.
ACTIVITIES performed by Learners/ Here supermarket staff FIELD/Context of learning and Performance -> Supermarket/position Disk/layer model -> context, activities, competences
Showing the potentials • Of each competence dimension: • Knowledge • Skills • attitudes
Validating competence development In the framework of an in-/non formal learning action Informal learning Activity („project“) Time
A CUBE as Model to Visualise Competence Developments
Description of Project • Context • Target Group • Objectives • … • 5. Presentation of Results • Rating learning outcomes atdifferent times • Describing differentcompetence levels • Evidencing learning andproject outcomes • Validation and certification • 2. Selecting/determining Topics • Inventory • Topic sets • Refining content andobjectives • 4. Assessing/Measuring • Selecting Assessment Methods • Measuring learning outcomes atdifferent evaluation times • 3. Creating a Reference System • Three Dimensions • Five specific competence levelsrelated to the learning project • Indicators
Thank you! Contact: REVEAL info@reveal-eu.org www.reveal-eu.org www.my-vita.eu
The individual evaluation system -> describing the development of competences Table: Exemplary grid for the affective competence dimension