- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
An Assessment Strategy to Assess Professional Competencies: A Case Study of the Civil Industrial Engineering Career of the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana of Chile
(Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile)
Abstract: The study is based on a case study focused on the Industrial Civil Engineering career taught at the Metropolitan Technological University of Chile (UTEM). The study is based on the students’ self-evaluation of the competences achieved in the fifth year of the career, specifically in the “Project Evaluation Workshop” subject. It is applied an assessment strategy previously developed and validated. The results of the self-assessment are analyzed for each competency that the students must have achieved at that level of their professional training and then the results are compared with the evaluations made by the teacher of the same subject.
Key words: assessment, competence, vocational training, strategy, formative evaluation