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Assessment of Professional Competence in a Construction Management Problem-based Learning Setting

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Assessment of Professional Competence in a Construction Management Problem-based Learning Setting
 
Creator Jefferies, Marcus
Chen, Swee
Conway, Jane
 
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Description This paper discusses the congruence between problem-based learning (PBL) and competencybased assessment and describes how competency based assessment has been implementedin a professional construction management programme. The design andunderlying principles of assessment approaches used to determine students' professionalcompetence through use of professional standards to frame learning and assessment arediscussed. Through presentation of preliminary findings of a case study that explores staffand student experiences in the construction management programme, the authors describethe issues and challenges they have encountered in implementing competencybased assessment in a PBL programme within the context of higher education.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2012-11-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2886
10.5130/AJCEB.v2i1.2886
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 2, No 1 (2002): AJCEB; 47-56
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2886/3064
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2002 Marcus Jefferies, Swee Chen, Jane Conway
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