Competence Assessment Framework for Project Management Learners and Practitioners

The goal of this paper is to present a competence-based learning and assessment framework that can facilitate the learning of both technical and human project management skills. The proposed competence assessment method is based on the participant’s performance and value creation. The information is obtained from assessment forms that relied on at least one piece of evidence and audits conducted automatically. This method can be implemented in an internet-based simulation environment. As the framework that was constructed was tested by students from various universities and locations, this work presents the results obtained, the relationships observed among four transversal competences -teamwork, leadership, motivation and results orientation– and the relationships between those competences and other variables such as the project’s final success, the effort ratio and the size of the project team.

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