The Point for the Practice – Criteria Based Competence Measurement Method Comet

Abstract

Competence measurement is an essential moment - both for the determination of actual professional ability and its developmental status as well as for the educational performance of an institution and its didactic implications. In the following, we will show how the COMET model for competence assessment can be used to achieve targeted competence promotion within the framework of a STEM project (STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at general schools. At the same time, this project can be used to illustrate the action-oriented direction (using elements of project-based learning) in which general schools must work. This, on the one hand, to strengthen the students’ interest in science and technology and, on the other hand, to prepare the students for vocational learning at EQF level 6. Promotion of STEM interest can be achieved in particular through the use of the holistic COMET process - in which the criteria of social compatibility and ecological responsibility are included to a special degree. However, it must also be noted that the further training of teachers to become raters, i.e. qualified evaluators according to the COMET concept (“interrater reliability”) with the task identification included therein, represents a considerable challenge.