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Competence Assessment Framework for Project Management Learners and Practitioners

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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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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to recognize the support of the Spanish “Ministerio de Educación” through its research funding program as part of this work was supported by its grant EDU2012-31080. The authors would also like to express their thanks for the financial support of the “Vicerrectorado de Profesorado, Planificación e Innovación Docente” of the University of La Rioja, through the “Dirección Académica de Formación e Innovación Docente” (APIDUR 2013).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de La Rioja, C/ Luis de Ulloa 20, 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Ana González-Marcos & Fernando Alba-Elías

  2. PMQ Research Group, ETSII, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, José Gutiérrrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Joaquín Ordieres-Meré

  3. Department of Education Sciences, Universidad de La Rioja, C/ Luis de Ulloa 8, 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Fermín Navaridas-Nalda

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  2. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Maria Teresa Restivo

  3. School of Engineering, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Ireland

    James Uhomoibhi

  4. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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González-Marcos, A., Alba-Elías, F., Ordieres-Meré, J., Navaridas-Nalda, F. (2015). Competence Assessment Framework for Project Management Learners and Practitioners. In: Zvacek, S., Restivo, M., Uhomoibhi, J., Helfert, M. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 510. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25768-6_15

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