After talking to Beverley Oliver yesterday about her ALTC National Teaching Fellowship (see earlier posts) I decided it was about time that I followed the advice of my colleague Gordon Joughin (now at the University of Queensland) and find out about ‘Wicked Competencies’.
So, I’ve found a paper that looks interesting and recommend that others read it too.
Peter Knight and Anna Page in their Report to the Open University’s Practice-based Professional Learning Centre The assessment of ‘wicked’ competences say
‘Wicked’ competences are achievements that cannot be neatly pre-specified, take time to develop and resist measurement based approaches to assessment. On the basis of knowledge of assessment practices in higher education in general, it was anticipated that there would be acute problems assessing this class of outcomes. And they are also important outcomes of higher education, since they are widely valued by employers and smooth the path of study and other forms of research.
If you are as intrigued as I was you can read more:
http://www.open.ac.uk/cetl-workspace/cetlcontent/documents/460d21bd645f8.pdf
Liking the wicked-ness