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Skills Validation

Competency Validation can reach beyond your advisors to other experts locally or anywhere. It does so in a way that respects your advisors value and time because it uses the web and pre-populated competencies that faculty already have reviewed.

Competency analysis results will lead to new insights about relative value and redundancy within a curriculum.  Though the results are useful and informative, the process is not complete.  Analysis also creates a profile of your curriculum in a common competency language that makes the conversation between educators and practitioners more productive.

After review and clean-up by faculty, practitioners of the target occupation will receive an online survey that allows them to rate the frequency, criticality, and mastery level for each of the competencies in the profile. The result is a fully industry-validated competency profile for development of new curriculum or revision of existing awards.

Unlike other curriculum alignment methods, Competency Validation can reach beyond your advisors to other experts locally or anywhere.  It does so in a way that respects your advisors value and time because it uses the web and pre-populated competencies that faculty already have reviewed.  Other validation methods also fail to map competencies fully to outcomes and courses the way that Competency Validation does.

C4EO Curriculum Alignment Process

  • Fidelity - Limited only by choice of inputs
  • Flexibility - Capable of validating curriculum competencies with multiple job titles
  • Objectivity - High objectivity, starts with pre-populated occupational profile and uses many sources of validation
  • SME Input - Sources can include faculty, practitioners anywhere, and the latest information available from current job postings
  • Industry Validation - Yes
  • Ease of Update - Can be remapped based on updated curriculum or occupational data
  • Time to Complete - Less than a month
  • Total Cost - Technology use keeps cost low

DACUM-Based Process

  • Fidelity - Limited small sample size
  • Flexibility - A single job title must be chosen before SMEs are selected
  • Objectivity - Dependent on SMEs and facilitator
  • SME Input - Limited by seats on panel
  • Industry Validation - Yes
  • Ease of Update - Requires a shorter (one-day) DACUM
  • Time to Complete - Two months to plan, two full days of SME/facilitator time
  • Total Cost - High, due to SME travel expenses

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