Competency is a key resource that all organizations possess. Proper channeling of organizational competencies leads to increased performance and better outcomes in order to meet the competitive edge. A crucial feature of engineering institutions (EIs) is that they consist of many processes, each requiring the combination of various skills at different proficiency levels. A robust competency man...

This poster reports on early progress of the Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project to develop a competency-based referatory of learning resources for teaching and learning Linked Data practices in design, implementation, and management. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute for Museums and Library Services (IMLS), the project builds on a 2011 IMLS Planning Grant that explor...

A survey was conducted to assess competencies of dental graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, as perceived by the graduates and their employers, based on the five-year undergraduate curriculum introduced in 1995. All senior dental officers in the Ministry of Health (MOH), representing employers, and all 164 dental graduates of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 were sent a se...

Objective: The transition to practice experience provides a useful process to integrate nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes of newly graduated nurses before they assume the professional nurses’ roles. The study examined the levels of perceived clinical competency, confidence, and professional role development skills of 114 culturally diverse novice nurses enrolled in 12-15 weeks of a colla...

Grief is regarded as a critical life event. Unresolved grief issues can interfere with quality of life and can result in emotional, behavioral, physical, and cognitive symptoms. If unresolved, this can result in suicidal ideation. Counselors can be called upon and often do work with grief issues in clients, including U.S. Military veterans. This study examined whether 93 master’s-level counselo...

This study was a test for developmental differences in competency to make informed treatment decisions. 96 subjects, 24 (12 males and 12 females) at each of 4 age levels (9, 14, 18, and 21), were administered a measure developed to assess competency according to 4 legal standards. The measure included 4 hypothetical treatment dilemmas and a structured interview protocol. Overall, 14-year-olds d...

Feedback on satisfaction with dental care is vital for continuous improvement of the service delivery process and outcome. The objective of this study was to assess the satisfaction with school dental service (SDS) provided via mobile dental squads in Selangor, Malaysia, under 4 domains of satisfaction: patient-personnel interaction, technical competency, administrative efficiency, and clinic s...

Ontology authoring is a non-trivial task for authors who are not proficient in logic. It is difficult to either specify the requirements for an ontology, or test their satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this problem by leveraging the ideas of competency questions and test-before software development. We first analyse real-world competency questions collected fro...

For taking competitive advantages of Korean business organizations in this dynamic global market system, this research might be the foundational study to develop Korean HRD practitioners’ competency model. The main purpose of this study is to examine the current and future core-competencies including primary roles and key expertise of HRD practitioners. American Society of Training and Developm...