"We are seeing institutions embrace much more competency-based skills development for students, and this includes understanding how to embrace social media technologies".
"But it's much more about his competency as a manager and an administrator".
The CRTs are of more interest, as they arguably pushed the boundaries of competency assessment much further than the MCQs.
Overall, there is much room for cultural competency improvement among providers.
10 12 In this context, increasing the professionalism of the healthcare workforce is as much about improved technical competency as it is about ethics of practice.
Unfortunately, there is much confusion about the concepts of competence, competency, and competency-based education.
Now, the effects of economic competencies are much smaller.
For example, Bassok et al. (2015) have recently shown how kindergarten teachers in the US started to emphasize much more on academic competencies in the decade following the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
There wasn't much discussion of leadership competencies to start.
Instead of a diploma being a certificate of "seat time served" in a collection of courses, students will work towards earning "merit badges" representing diverse competencies - much in the way that Scouts do today - at times and places that are consistent with their learning interests and goals.
