From Knowledge to Competency: An Original Study Assessing the Potential to ACT Through Multiple-Choice Questions

ISBN-13: 9782807606241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 338 str.

Xavier Roegiers

Opis

This book addresses the steps and the results of a wholly original study, based on the following question: what makes us competent? What allows us to act in concrete ways to process situations that require much more than knowledge?

Spis treści

Contents: Competencies in a Context of Innovations - The Assessment of Competencies - The Bases of the Study - Exploration Phase - The Modeling Phase - The Systemization Phase - The Extension Phase and the Work on the Cognitive Factors - Research Question in Relation to the Emotional Dimension - Processing Complexity: Main Findings

O autorze

As well as a civil engineer and teacher with a PhD in Education, Xavier Roegiers is a professor at UCL in Belgium. As an expert for UNESCO, UNICEF, OIF and other multilateral organizations, he has been instrumental in leading curricular reforms in many countries, across primary, secondary, professional and higher education. He is especially interested in the impact of curricula on the construction of a more equitable and humane society. He has written many books on the competency-based approach.