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Trainees' Current Competencies
Learning Objectives:
In the previous lessons, you learned that important data about your trainees
are needed as inputs in planning your training sessions.
One of them is the trainee's characteristics.
Trainee's training needs is another important data that you need to collect as a
trainer so that you will be able to identify the skills and competencies
needed by individual trainees.
In CBT, competencies or skills that are already previously acquired by the
trainee will no longer be repeated in their learning activities.
Current Competencies
Current competencies are the skills and knowledge of your new trainees
obtained through formal training, work experience or life experience.
These should be determined before you can prepare your session plan, so as
not include the same competencies where the trainees are already competent.
Assessment Methodologies
Observation Checklist
This is a checklist completed by a trainer or the workplace assessor while
observing the learner's performance on relevant tasks.
Practical Demonstration
Demonstrates competence by showing steps or process used to produce a product
or service
Case Study
Response to a situation which is presented to the learner. Used to ascertain
the learners problem solving techniques and underpinning
knowledge.
Oral presentation
Learners give an oral presentation about an area of knowledge or their
projects to a small group, usually including a trainer, their assessor,
their colleagues and any other interested parties.
Journal
A journal that records learning activities, skills and knowledge acquisition.
Problem Solving
Implementing problem solving techniques to analyse a product or process for
problems or errors.
Project
Demonstration of skills and knowledge in the completion of a project.
The Trainer can call or personally ask for confirmation from the signatories of the
certificate issued by a company or an industry.
In reviewing the documents submitted by the trainee, the following should be
considered:
Trainers may use their ingenuity to develop other instruments that may validate
proofs/evidences of current competencies such as assessment instruments.
SUMMARY
To ensure that the current competencies of the trainee are recognized and
learning activities related to the current competencies are no longer assigned to
him, trainees current competencies has to be determined.