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16. What is a performance criterion?
Once elements of competency have been defined, they need to be specified in terms of: the quality with which they have to be achieved, the evidence that proves they have been obtained, the field of application and the knowledge required. These are the components of the competency standard.
When defining performance criteria, reference is being made to the expected result of the element of competency and to an assessment statement of the quality that such result is supposed to show. It could be said that performance criteria are a description of the quality requirements of the result obtained in labour performance. They allow to establish whether the worker can reach the result described by the element of competency or not.
Performance criteria should, as far as possible, refer to the essential aspects of competency. They should, therefore, express the characteristics of the results, which are closely related to the achievement described in the element of competency. They constitute the basis to assess whether a worker is, or is not yet, competent; in this way, they support the design of assessment material. They allow to specify what has been done and its quality.
They are written by making reference to a result and including an assessment statement concerning such result.
Examples of performance criteria
Materials storage is done according to safety requirements
in the places assigned.
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