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The Impact of Competency-Based Learning and Digital Self-assessment on Facilitating Students’ Cognitive and Interpersonal Skills

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This paper aims to utilize a mixed-methods assessment for an innovative interdisciplinary course, Application Period, in a world-class Russian University. In order to examine how the cognitive (competency-based learning) and motivational (self-efficacy for interpersonal skills) concepts impact students’ achievement in engineering education, an exploratory sequential design was conducted by firstly collecting qualitative data to signify the students’ interactive learning process during the project-based collaboration and team communication. Subsequently, two instruments measuring the students’ learning outcomes were built based on the previous qualitative data and preliminary learning objectives. The suggestions and implications are provided to specify how to employ competency-based learning and self-efficacy for interpersonal skills in teaching and how to assess those content knowledge and pedagogical skills in contemporary education.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Yashu Kauffman

  2. Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Douglas Kauffman

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  1. University of Vaasa , Vaasa, Finland

    Jussi Ilari Kantola

  2. Hungarian-Netherlands School of Edu man, University of Szeged Hungarian-Netherlands School of Edu man, Szeged, Hungary

    Tibor Barath

  3. Faculty of Technology and Maritime Scien, University College of Southeast Norway Faculty of Technology and Maritime Scien, Kongsberg, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  4. TiER1 Performance Solutions , Colorado Springs,, Colorado, USA

    Terence Andre

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Kauffman, Y., Kauffman, D. (2017). The Impact of Competency-Based Learning and Digital Self-assessment on Facilitating Students’ Cognitive and Interpersonal Skills. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S., Andre, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_1

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