INSAFORP. Drafting technical standards for labour competency TSLC: an experience in the Republic of
El Salvador.
San Salvador, 2003. 173 p.

The main objective of this guide is to explain the procedure to be followed in drawing up Technical Standards for Labour Competency (TSLC), taking as bases the qualification of the standard which was previously selected by the Technical Standardization Committee (COTECNO) from the functional map corresponding to the sector in question.

It is designed so it can be used as a text for self-learning or learning in big or small groups, and it is aimed at teachers, instructors, facilitators and consultants in educational institutions, enterprises of vocational training and/or evaluation, consultancy firms, entrepreneurs and workers who are in the COTECNO groups or in the different technical groups.

It has been prepared considering the model of the learning guide of the Systematic Curricular Instructional Development methodology (SCID) adapted for the Republic of El Salvador. It contains the theory, some examples, and the application exercises necessary to master the basic concepts, and it includes practical procedures for developing competency elements: the performance criteria, the fields of application, the evidence, the guidelines for making evaluations and the glossary. It also takes into consideration the evaluation instruments for the cognitive, psychomotor and attitudinal mastery needed to verify the learning acquired.

The examples and exercises in this guide have been taken from the Technical Standard for Labour Competency (TSLC) called "Realization of installations and maintenance of residential electrical circuits", which contains two competency units and six competency elements, and which was prepared along with the standard denominated "Construction and maintenance of electrical distribution lines" for the electricity sector in the Republic of El Salvador, framed in the pilot project denominated "Standardization and Evaluation of Labour Competencies in the Republic of El Salvador".

It is also important to point out that this guide, along with those titled "Organization and validation for the processes and products involved in Standardization and Evaluation in the SNCCL", "Preparation and development of functional maps", "Preparation and testing of evaluation instruments based on TSLC", and "Verification of the conditions for evaluating candidates based on TSLC", support the process identified as Standardization and Evaluation, which forms part of the system of Standardization and Certification by Labour Competencies SNCCL, a proposal for the Republic of El Salvador.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Control of learning activities
Directions for study

Learning activities I
How to prepare performance criteria when developing a competency element
The concept of a competency element
The concept of performance criteria
Characteristics of the performance criteria
Ways to express performance criteria
What a Technical Standard for Labour Competency (TSLC) is
Practical procedure for preparing and evaluating performance criteria
Examples

Learning activity II
How to select the fields of application when developing a competency element
The concept of a field of application
Examples

Learning activity III
How to determine the evidence when developing a competency element
The concept of evidence
Characteristics of evidence by performance
Characteristics of evidence by product
Characteristics of evidence by knowledge
Evidence matrix
Practical procedure for determining evidence
Examples

Learning activity IV
How to prepare evidence of attitudes when developing a competency element
The concept of evidence of attitude
Recommended attitudes
Criteria employed to identify attitudes
Examples

Learning activity V
How to determine the evaluation guidelines and the glossary when developing a competency element
The concept of evaluation guidelines
Characteristics of evaluation guidelines
Possible sources for defining evaluation guidelines
The concept of a glossary
The concept of self inspection registers
Examples

Learning activity VI
How to draw up Technical Standards for Labour Competency
The concept of TSLC
Proposed format
Practical procedure for completing the format for the TSLC using the evidence matrix
Auto-evaluation
Answers key
Technical guides to learning
Knowledge tests
Answers to the knowledge tests
Execution tests
Instruments for evaluating affective area

Annexes
Assessment of the standard
Complete evidence matrix
Element validation instruments
Example of TSLC

Other documents on this subject can be accessed on the INSAFORP publications web page
http://www.insaforp.org.sv/publicaciones.htm

 

 

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