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VITA - Dublin 2 © REVEAL 2013 Validating competences for the service economy (2012/2013)

VITA - Dublin 3 © REVEAL 2013 Idea:Validating (and developing) competences for the service economy Results/outcomes: Survey 2 parts, appr. 150 respondents Pilot projects: 8 countries all educational sectors (AE, schools, universities, VET) Networking 2 conferences VITA award My-vita e-portfolio European networking -> REVEAL

VITA - Dublin 4 © REVEAL 2013 European Network for learning, validation and capacity building Transnational community of European experts and practitioners working in 25 organisations from 22 European member states. Assessing and evidencing with a unique validation approach specifically designed for: informally acquired competences personal and social skills and competences piloted in more than 100 learning projects and scientifically evaluated in the framework of two European PhD thesis. to serve especially target groups that learn outside or beside formal education contexts and their learning facilitators: adult learning providers, grass-root projects, mobility projects, entrepreneurs, learning on the job, internships …

VITA - Dublin 5 © REVEAL 2013 LEVEL5 An approach and instrument to document and visualise (evidence) competence developments Especially: Personal, Social and Organisational competences

VITA - Dublin 6 © REVEAL 2013 Projects Scope of REVEAL activities in EU-projects: European home of LEVEL5 and network Validating, Training, Counselling, Practice-Research Covering and linking all educational sectors Providing the e-Portfolio My-VITA as REVEAL projects and informal learning contexts ACT:Measuring the impact of informal learning on Active Citizenship (05-09) ACT-NETFounding the network (REVEAL (2009/2010) VIP:Competences acquired in EU-projects (2010/2011) VILMA:Competences acquired in Mobility (2011/2012) RIVER:Competences acquired in (Senior) volunteers (2012/2013) PROVIDE:Competences for educational providers ( ) EYE:Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (2013-xxx) VITA:Competences for the service economy ( )

VITA - Dublin 7 © REVEAL 2013 Learning Development and Validation of Competences Part 2

VITA - Dublin 8 © REVEAL 2013 Swiss Learning Festival people with reading and writing difficulties

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VITA - Dublin 11 © REVEAL 2013 Competence Definition A competence is the capacity/potential of a person to apply a synthesis of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes in a particular situation* and in a particular quality**. *Context **LEVEL

VITA - Dublin 12 © REVEAL 2013 POTENTIAL (internal) EXPECTATIONS (external) Knowledge Attitudes SkillsBehaviour Quality Context Competence: The ability to: „Performance lense“ -> Ideal assessment area „Performance lense“ -> Ideal assessment area

VITA - Dublin 13 © REVEAL 2013 EUROPASS CV Personal data ECTS ECVET Other formal certificates Higher Education VET Languages IT-skills Social Skills & Comp. Personal Skills & Comp. Other formal certificates Orga. Skills & Comp.? ? ? Sector/Section Cerification SystemReference System EQF/NQF different IT-Sys Formal Informal

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VITA - Dublin 15 © REVEAL 2013 FIELD/Context of learning and Performance -> Supermarket/position ACTIVITIES performed by Learners/ Here supermarket staff Disk/layer model -> context, activities, competences

VITA - Dublin 16 © REVEAL 2013 Showing the potentials Of each competence dimension: Knowledge Skills attitudes

VITA - Dublin 17 © REVEAL 2013 Validating competence development In the framework of an in-/non formal learning action Informal learning Activity („project“) Time

VITA - Dublin 18 © REVEAL 2013 A CUBE as Model to Visualise Competence Developments

VITA - Dublin 19 © REVEAL Description of Project Context Target Group Objectives … 1.Description of Project Context Target Group Objectives … 2. Selecting/determining Topics Inventory Topic sets Refining content and objectives 2. Selecting/determining Topics Inventory Topic sets Refining content and objectives 4. Assessing/Measuring Selecting Assessment Methods Measuring learning outcomes at different evaluation times 4. Assessing/Measuring Selecting Assessment Methods Measuring learning outcomes at different evaluation times 3. Creating a Reference System Three Dimensions Five specific competence levels related to the learning project Indicators 3. Creating a Reference System Three Dimensions Five specific competence levels related to the learning project Indicators 5. Presentation of Results Rating learning outcomes at different times Describing different competence levels Evidencing learning and project outcomes Validation and certification 5. Presentation of Results Rating learning outcomes at different times Describing different competence levels Evidencing learning and project outcomes Validation and certification

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VITA - Dublin 27 © REVEAL * GradeGeneral scalingIndividual description/ explanatory statement Rating 1 Rating 2 Remarks, explanations, reasons for your rating 5Regulating with others Your description for grade 5 4Affective self- regulation Your description for grade 4 3Empathetic concernYour description for grade 3 Description of state 2: what has changed? 2Perspective takingYour description for grade 2 1IndifferenceYour description for grade 1 Description of state 1 Table: Exemplary grid for the affective competence dimension The individual evaluation system -> describing the development of competences

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