And the idea of measuring students' competency, not classroom hours, has become the cornerstone of newer institutions like Western Governors University in Utah.
Since then, his research focuses on Vocational Education and Training (VET) for laboratory assistants in biology and medicine, and the VET students' competency development.
As information and communication technologies (ICTs) become increasingly prevalent in modern society, improving students' competency with these technologies has become a key focus of 21st century education.
It is recommended that the vocational colleges of Taiwan design curricula to improve students' competency in these areas for enhanced employability.
The CER framework and the learning progression based on it are the first systematic endeavor for developing students' competency in scientific explanation, which made this research topic available in science education.
In short, students' competency in evolutionary reasoning should be measured by their ability to consider both drift and selection as possible causal mechanisms in their explanations for trait change.
