Evaluation of a Competency Based Educational Administration Project.

Overview & Synopsis

The Occupational Education Administration Project at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale was developed to prepare vocational education administrators. Evaluation of the project was intended to determine the extent to which participation was related to student learning and on-the-job competence after graduation. The project was competency based, with each student's performance evaluated according to a performance portfolio of 159 competencies. Project evaluation showed that this approach to competency-based administrator education was generally successful. However, there are still important questions that must be answered before the author would recommend the complete replacement of an entire traditional program with a pure competency-based curriculum. (Author)