OBJECTIVE To study the differences and the relation between what a doctor actually does in daily practice (performance) and what he or she is capable of doing (competence) by using national standards for general practice. DESIGN General practitioners were consulted by four standardised (simulated) patients portraying four different cases during normal surgery hours. Later the doctors particip...

BACKGROUND Gerontological research aims at understanding factors that are crucial for mediating "successful aging". This term denotes the absence of significant disease and disabilities, maintenance of high levels of physical and cognitive function, and preservation of social and productive activities. Preservation of an active lifestyle is considered an effective means through which everyday c...

The shift in government paradigm has also affected the village system Indonesia. Previously, villages were subordinate of regency government. Nowadays, they have been autonomous governments. This, a sense, is an advancement, yet it poses challenges regarding how autonomy shall be implemented, particularly low competence that personnel have. Therefore, needs to develop using competency-based mod...

The transformation of education in the world begins with educational policies that guarantee right to quality education. implementation these school is responsibility directors, who fulfill role pedagogical leaders and accompany teachers laudable mission guaranteeing institution provides community a service. general objective study was describe main characteristics scientific publications have ...

As part of the project “Educational standards in vocational schools” the responsible Federal Ministry compiled competence models, descriptors and didactic examples for Informatics in technical high schools (HTL). The implementation of this project implies a paradigm shift for the vocational school system, which requires a new pedagogic foundation. This paper presents a didactical concept, that ...

Despite the considerable research interest shown in various types of knowledge management systems, not much academic work can be found on information technology (IT) support for managing competence. This paper addresses this shortage by presenting an 18-month action case study of the design, implementation, and evaluation of a traditional competence system at Volvo Information Technology AB in ...

This paper describes an experiment to explore the effects of the TENCompetence infrastructure for supporting lifelong competence development which is now in development. This infrastructure provides structured, multi-leveled access to learning materials, based upon competences. People can follow their own learning path, supported by a listing of competences and their components, by competence d...