...Leonard S. Pederson; Sally Dresdow; Joy Benson Purpose The need for effective training of first‐line supervisors is well established. Well‐trained supervision is essential to our future as a country. A fundamental step in developing effective training is to develop a jobs needs assessment...

... that both companies and municipalities have their own ways of assessing knowledge/skills, mostly out of a production logic of what is needed at the workplace. However, certain skills are also made “unvisualised” for the employee. This employer‐controlled recognition logic is important to understand when RPL...

...Judy Harris; Ruth Whittaker; Nan L. Travers Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore faculty definitions of college‐level learning in order to develop a universal definition to assist employers, career counselors, and academic institutions in assessing college‐level workplace learning...

...Sarojni Choy Purpose This paper aims to discuss the teaching and assessment strategies for an organisation‐centred curriculum. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a case study. Data were collected from interviews and a focus group with worker‐learners enrolled in a Graduate...

... to IT enhanced competence management. In this study the contextual competence assessment for individual purposes has been objectified for organisational purposes, causing confusion about the value of IT enhanced competence management. Research limitations/implications This study has been conducted in only...

...Derek H. Berg; Jennifer Taylor; Nancy L. Hutchinson; Hugh Munby; Joan Versnel; Peter Chin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the assessment practices reported by Canadian educators and workplace supervisors involved in exemplary work‐based education (WBE) programs for high‐school...

... to the centre. However, they are still insecure, and still in need of mentoring from an experienced practitioner, although they may be reticent in expressing it. The supervisor's release of agency demands a considerable amount of trust, as well an assessment that the student is ready to take...

...Esa Poikela Traditional assessment is based on perceiving and measuring knowledge possession and practical performance. This kind of assessment provides limited information about the capability of the learner to develop as a professional and to learn at work. In a typical skill test situation...

... and 2, i.e. the current input or benchmark quality assurance regimes, are based on disparate criteria for assessing programme quality and the learning achieved. In the traditional formal qualification context – Model 1 – the recognition of study and learning is highly visible in the formalised...

...Peter J. Murk; Andrew J. Barrett; Pierre J. Atchade The purpose of this diagnostic‐skills training model paper is to provide an overall assessment process for training and development. The interests of trainers, managers, and trainee representatives (stakeholders) are best served when all parties...

...Karen Romaniuk; Fern Snart Examines the role of prior learning assessment, the portfolio method specifically, in workforce development. Despite the continuous evolution of work, organizational provisions for career development have not necessarily progressed to reflect advancing demands on workers...

...‐for‐credit programs. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Assessment Field research Management education Models Work experience While there are a number of institutions that have established successful work‐for‐credit programs, the initial development of such a program takes a tremendous amount of work...

...Joy Benson; Sally Dresdow Universities engage people in a process of learning. During the past decade, there has been increased interest in assessing the quality of students’ learning. This paper presents the need for developing a method of systematically assessing disciplinary knowledge applied...

..., especially regarding assessment. Particularly addresses institutional quality and performance in key assessment areas. Also highlights learning implications in relation to the assessment initiative. Assessment Organizational learning Quality assurance 1 quality of administrative leadership...

... corporate president. She ignored the impulse to correct his English and replied, “Yes, speaking to someone who is about to lose a job and a family”. There are two circumstances within which the assessment takes place: when the executive comes voluntarily or when he/she comes under company mandate. When...

... training in which they are involved: © MCB UP Limited 1995 Assessment Codes of practice Confidentiality Counselling Employee assistance programmes Interpersonal skills training Management attitudes Organizational behaviour All organizations have their own ecology, their flavour...