Work in progress - assessment of the development of personal and social competencies by students

Author

Alabart, Joan R. ; Godlewska, Agnieszka ; Herrero, Joan ; Giralt, Francesc ; Medir, Magda

Author_Institution

Dep. d´´Enginyeria Quimica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2005

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Universities are becoming increasingly aware of how important it is to equip their students with personal and social competencies such as client orientation or teamwork and cooperation. This paper presents a research project whose aim is to create a comprehensive system of assessment and development of competencies to support the competency-based educational model implemented at the School of Chemical Engineering (ETSEQ) at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain

Keywords

chemical engineering; educational institutions; social sciences; School of Chemical Engineering; Spain; Tarragona; University Rovira i Virgili; client orientation; competency-based educational model; social competencies; Chemical engineering; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Feedback; Knowledge engineering; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Process design; Recruitment; Teamwork; Assessment; personal and social competencies; students as team leaders; students as team members;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference

Conference_Location

Indianopolis, IN

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9077-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2005.1612089

Filename

1612089