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Competency standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine.Goodacre@libstud.utas.ed)
Fri Jun 26 11:45:36 1992
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 10:31:45 CDT
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From: Christine.Goodacre@libstud.utas.edu.au
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Dear Colleagues,
There has been a gremlin at work 'down under' and all my mail for the past
three days has not been sent on to my machine. Would anyone who kindly
answered my query regarding competency standards and education mind sending
me their reply again??
Just to refresh your memory the questions I asked were:
<1.if any of you are further down the track than us down-under is it really
possible to identify competencies for all knowledge, skills and attitude
areas in the library sector? Can you really deal with cognitive areas
using this approach? (I know of the work of J-M Griffiths, which is very
helpful in the area of developing competencies.) Our Government has
defined competencies very generally and I'm not sure they are very helpful
- most courses could claim to produce the competency outcomes for the
'using technology' strand.
2. assessment. It seems to me that the crunch comes when you try to assess
competencies. Are traditional assessment approaches adequate and if not,
what others have been developed?
3. even if you can assess competencies can you translate the acquisition of
a competence into performance in the workplace? If you can't the process
doesn't seem worthwhile.
Any arguements and experience for and against, particularly in the area of
technology in library and information science courses, would be
appreciated.
If you send responses to me I will summarise for the network given
sufficient interest.>
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Christine Goodacre Ph. (002) 202784 (W)
Senior Lecturer Fax (002) 202186
Dept. Library & Info. Studies
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252C
| HOBART TASMANIA
AUSTRALIA 7001
e-mail: Christine.Goodacre@libstud.utas.edu.au
