Competency statement format: behavior, conditions, and minimal performance level¶

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Description¶

A competency statement is the outcome objective for staff development: it specifies what educational personnel must know, do, or value to implement the educational improvement program. The workbook teaches two ways of defining competency statements — adopting existing statements from published lists, or writing original ones — and specifies that "Each competency statement should have the minimal following element": a statement of what is to occur, a statement of the conditions under which it is to occur, and a statement of minimal performance level. Competencies are educational-personnel-centered, in contrast to student-centered objectives.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An educational improvement program already designed, from which needed staff competencies are derived
• an assessment of which competencies the staff already possess

Constraints¶

• Competencies needed but found lacking form the basis of the staff development program; inadequate assessment of professional competencies can be as hazardous as no assessment at all

Target Learners¶

• educational personnel and staff development planners

Target Learning Goals¶

• specify professional competencies needed to achieve student objectives

Claims¶

Related Elements¶

• Objective
• Learning Objectives
• Learning Goals
• State objectives

Examples¶

• Competency Based Learning

Key Sources¶

• Huenecke, Dorothy M.; Stansbury, George W. (1975). A Systems Approach to Staff Development. Georgia State Dept. of Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED123751