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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348229403321

Autore

Winter Richard <1943, >

Titolo

Professional competence and higher education : the ASSET programme / / Richard Winter and Maire Maisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Falmer Press, , 1996

ISBN

1-135-71653-6

1-135-71654-4

1-280-22443-6

9786610224432

0-203-97316-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MaischMaire

Disciplina

378.013

Soggetti

Educational tests and measurements - Great Britain

Engineering - Study and teaching (Higher) - Great Britain

Professional education - Great Britain - Evaluation

Social work education - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of documents; Preface; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Vocational 'Competences' and the 'Relevance' of University Education; 2 The ASSET Programme: An Outline; 3 The Functional Analysis of Competences: An Empirically Based Curriculum?; 4 The 'Other Dimension' of Assessment: A General Model of Professional Learning; 5 Practice and Knowledge or Practice as Knowledge?; 6 Assessment: The Development of an Expert Community; 7 Examples of Work from Candidates' Portfolios; 8 The Organizational/Employment Context: An Educative Workplace?

9 Evaluation 1995: The Social Work ASSET Programme after Five Years10 Current and Future Developments; Appendices; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Appendix G; Appendix H; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on lessons learned from the ASSET programme, a national



project to develop a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment, this text presents a research based description of a possible future for higher education and for education of the profession.