CONCEPTS

OF TECHNICAL AND CARLOS TIAN CHOW C. CORREOS

OCCUPATIONAL ASSESSMENTS
Education Program Supervisor
NEAP Trainer/Facilitator
Objectives:
• Discuss technical and Occupational Assessment for
21st Century learners
• Explain the different group of competencies
necessary for assessment
What is Technical and Occupational Assessment?
• Assessment that is directed towards the 21st century
skills development.
• The assessment must allow learners to practically
apply the concepts and theories in the present
demands of the glocal communities may it be in basic
or complex circumstances.
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

• PROBLEM SOLVING
• INFORMATION LITERACY
• CRITICAL THINKING
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

PROBLEM SOLVING
• Analyzing Outcomes (AO)
- Identify Association
- Identify cause and effect
- Predict Outcome
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

PROBLEM SOLVING
• Executing Strategy (ESM)
- Identifies a strategy or method
- Selects appropriate method to solve a problem
- Identifies alternative methods to solve the action
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

PROBLEM SOLVING
• Understanding the Problem (UTP)
- Generates hypothesis about the problem
- Modifies hypothesis about the problem
- Generalizes hypothesis to other problems
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

INFORMATION LITERACY
• Ability to Manage Information (AMI)
- Classify information
- Organize the structure
- Sequence Information/identify ways of accessing
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

INFORMATION LITERACY
• Identifying Types of Information (ITI)
- Acknowledges different types of information
- Present required information when explicitly asked
- Interprets questions of forms to provide
appropriate information
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

INFORMATION LITERACY
• Ability to Communicate Information (ACI)
- Presents information in another medium
- Organizes information in another medium
- Re-organizes or sequences the information
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

CRITICAL THINKING
• Analyzing Relevance (AR)
- Identifying that there is different information
- Differentiate between relevant and irrelevant
information
- Drawing only on relevant information
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

CRITICAL THINKING
• Evaluating Sources (ES)
- Identifies source of information
- Evaluates credibility of sources
- Develops criteria for evaluation of source
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

CRITICAL THINKING
• Using Evidence to Formulate an Argument (UFA)
- States evidence
- Links evidence to arguments
- Draws conclusion based on various evidence
Technical and Occupational Skills
of the 21st Century

21st Century Assessment DOESN’T focus on WHAT, WHEN ,

WHERE AND WHO.

It is MOSTLY focused on WHY and HOW, because new

generations are not historically inclined, they are FUTURE-
LIVING INDIVIDUALS. They don’t care about the past.
UNDERSTANDING THE MOST
ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES
THREE GROUPS OF COMPETENCIES

• BASIC OR COMMON COMPETENCIES

• CORE COMPETENCIES
• FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Understanding the
Most Essential Competencies

Basic or Common Competencies (Knowledge Level)

• refer to non-technical competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes)
that everybody will need in order to perform satisfactorily at work
and in society and are considered portable and transferable
irrespective of jobs and industrial settings.
• These competencies are integrated with 21ST CENTURY SKILLS,
referring to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and
character traits believed to be critically important to success in
today’s world, particularly in contemporary careers and workplaces.
Understanding the
Most Essential Competencies

Core Competencies (Process/Skill Level)

• are the resources and capabilities that comprise the
strategic advantages. These include analytical abilities,
creative thinking, and problem resolution skills.
Core Competencies
(Process/Skill Level)
Understanding the
Most Essential Competencies

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES (Understanding Level)

• refer to as technical competencies (knowledge, skills and
attitudes) that are job-specific which drive quality results and
assured performances for different real-life applications
• Functional competencies offers specific knowledge or skill
area that relates to successful performance in the job. This
entails one to perform or assume realistic expected tasks.
Writeshop 2 – Classifying the Competencies

With same grouping…

Classify from the competencies in the third

quarter, the Common, Core and Functional
Competencies. Use the template that follows.
 Writeshop 1

Groups of
Competency
Competencies
Basic or Common
Competencies
Core
Competencies
Functional
Competencies
PRESENTATION PROPER