Semantic Models for Competence-Based Assessment

Recognizing the inadequacy of current traditional knowledge-based assessment systems in Higher Education to achieve performance visibility, it is needed to rethink how to design new assessment approaches that can respond to the corporate requirements of the 21st century and reflect the learners' competences. This paper considers the Competence-Based Assessment. It explores the importance of competency and competence modeling conceptual understanding. The research reviews the benchmark literature on the concepts, models and approaches of competence and competency and explores the confusions surrounding the pair of concepts; thus enabling to build the competence-based assessment approach within e-learning environments in an effective and efficient way. The proposed approach is characterized by the convergence of lifelong, formal, non formal and informal competence-based learning activities.