Re: EOCred: Identify the level of a credential

On 11/02/18 19:55, Nate Otto wrote:
> I agree that alignment doesn't quite capture the relationship here. We 
> should probably define a new term specifically for this concept.
>
>     it should be possible to search or review results of a search by
>     specific credential level, e.g. post-graduate, High school, entry,
>     intermediate, advanced.
>
>
> Are we trying to say one or both of the following?
> (a) This credential is available at the high school level and 
> generally requires that level of expertise/difficulty?
> (b) This credential represents a high school diploma, the final 
> achievement of the high school level?
>
I had in mind the latter, though I am happy to leave dancing on this pin 
head to the angels. I am not sure they are easily separable as, to some 
extent, high school level in (a) is defined by the desire to reach the 
diploma level (b). Or maybe it's vice versa.

Practice in the UK (and I think the rest of Europe) is to use the same 
level descriptors for courses and the educational qualification which 
you would get if you succeed, but in the case of multi-year programs 
such Bachellor degrees, the courses are the level of the qualification 
you would get if you did not progress past that year. So in those 
multi-year programmes a student might be on an SCQF level 8 course as 
part of a programme of study leading a couple of years down the line to 
a SCQF level 10 qualification/credential.

Phil


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