Comments on: Competencies comments http://blog.melchua.com/2007/04/06/competencies-comments/ Braindumps on things Mel Chua has found shiny lately. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Salinas http://blog.melchua.com/2007/04/06/competencies-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Ben Salinas Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:34:00 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2007/04/06/competencies-comments/#comment-221 So there was this education case study written about Olin for a conference at Harvard Medical School. President Miller, Matt Tesch, David Boy, and Bennett Chabot recently went over there to answer questions about Olin.<br/><br/>Bennett relayed the following to me. The woman who wrote the case study had this to say about competencies:<br/><br/>Competencies aren't for the students to see how they are doing. They are for the faculty and administration to make sure the curriculum fits together well and to make sure that the classes do actually teach what they should. Think of each class fitting into a few categories (such as Quantitative Analysis, Design, Opportunity, etc.). A good Olin curriculum should have a good mix of all the categories. The numbers attached to them make sure that a class actually does teach that competency (and that it isn't the E Program Group saying: "Well, we need another class that teaches opportunity... Mat Sci it is!"). They are useful on an institutional level. So there was this education case study written about Olin for a conference at Harvard Medical School. President Miller, Matt Tesch, David Boy, and Bennett Chabot recently went over there to answer questions about Olin.

Bennett relayed the following to me. The woman who wrote the case study had this to say about competencies:

Competencies aren’t for the students to see how they are doing. They are for the faculty and administration to make sure the curriculum fits together well and to make sure that the classes do actually teach what they should. Think of each class fitting into a few categories (such as Quantitative Analysis, Design, Opportunity, etc.). A good Olin curriculum should have a good mix of all the categories. The numbers attached to them make sure that a class actually does teach that competency (and that it isn’t the E Program Group saying: “Well, we need another class that teaches opportunity… Mat Sci it is!”). They are useful on an institutional level.

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