competency testing
Ability assessment process
Competency testing is evaluation designed to verify that someone possesses the minimum skills or knowledge required for a particular role, certification, or level of education.
Schools use competency testing to determine whether students can advance; employers use it to ensure workers can perform essential job functions: She passed the competency testing for her nursing license.
The focus is on demonstrating adequate ability rather than ranking performance.
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- job skillsAbilities needed for work
- skillsLearned competencies
- learning outcomesMeasurable skills from instruction
certification · professional license · proficiency · exam · standards · qualification · benchmark · aptitude · mastery · performance · licensure · screening · hiring process · validation · credentials · baseline · rubric · demonstrated
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Questionnaire assessing character traits
aptitude testing · personality assessment · psychological profiling · opinion polling · IQ testing
competency testinggut feeling
Instinctive sense about something
self-assessment · intuition · rubber-stamping · blind trust · self-certification
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Preferring kin in hiring
hereditary succession · birthright · patronage · cronyism · legacy admission
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