Indicators Of Professional Competence Research Articles

The construction of the indicators of professional competence for exercise instructors of the elderly.

The purpose of this study was to construct the quality indicators of professional competence for exercise instructors of the elderly, and then to rank the importance among those indicators. This study used the Delphi technique to integrate the opinions of 11 experts to construct the indicators, and then adopts the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to calculate the relative rank among each individual indicator. Results revealed that the experts identified 3 first-degree indicators (professional attitude, professional skills, and professional knowledge), 10 second-degree indicators (teaching attitude, exercise knowledge, professional growth, exercise safety, personal characteristics, exercise instructor, gerontology knowledge, communicative competence, curriculum design, and motor skill), and 72 third-degree indicators. In the indicator weighting system, professional attitude was the most important among all other first-degree indicators, and the teaching attitude was the most important among all other second-degree indicators. The results provided will help in planning the curriculums of training, professional growth and evaluation. The results also provide a reference for future research.

CRITERIA OF OCCUPATIONAL FITNESS FOR WORKERS OF COAL PRODUCTION EXTREME PROFESSIONS

In recent years issues of personal suitability for specific workplace (or career suitability) using complex methodological approaches were widely discussed in various fields of economy. This included studies of individual properties of neural system, personality, mental processes, cortico-subcortical relationships, autonomic responses, which characterize the degree of stress imposed upon a human's body. Specific working conditions in coal mines, characterized by a complex of unfavorable factors, place increased demands on psychofunctional conditions of miners’ bodies. Certain general properties of body should be studied and be critically important for selection of extreme profession. Intensification of industrial production, growth requirements for quantity and quality of work and level of training brings stricter requirements of professional competences. Competences are especially important for those occupations in which the discrepancy between physiological capacity of a body is associated with potential health damage and life threatening risks. We have developed criteria for suitability applicable to the preparation of young professionals to work in extreme conditions of the coal production. Use of a complex psychophysiological indicators of professional competence of body work, will increase efficiency, reliability and enable trouble-free carrier. The most informative psychophysiological parameters are Breathing capacity, Capacity of forced breathing, Maximal volume speed, Maximal ventilation of lungs, Systolic arterial pressure, Diastolic arterial pressure, Frequency of systole, Reactive uneasiness and Individual uneasiness.

Independent study and professional education

ABSTRACT While there is considerable debate concerning curriculum and qualifications in education for the professions, more account needs to be taken of evidence that professional competence may be related more to modes of study than to syllabus content. Though there may be pressures of innovation within disciplines which seem to legitimise heavier content loadings, the commitment to content-based courses can also be viewed, in Kuhnian terms, as covert instruction in the dominant paradigm of a discipline. Whatever the merits of this as a socialisation process into the profession, or as a means of protecting professional monopolies, it may entail passive modes of learning rather than development of competence to deal with change; to achieve, for example, the techne quality in engineering advocated by CNAA in the wake of Finniston. The strongest empirical evidence that course content is a poor indicator of professional competence comes from McLelland and his associates, through studies relating to over 50 c...