Competence-based assessment in professional education validation

Abstract

This paper investigates the appropriateness of competence-based assessment in professional education validation, considering architectural education in Asia as a case study. Competence-based assessment originated in teacher training and vocational training settings in the USA and the UK. Competence-based assessment has been increasingly adopted by many professional education validation systems, for example the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), the Royal Institute of British Architects/Architects Registration Boards (RIBA/ ARB). Despite its growing application and longstanding continuity in professional education, its appropriateness for this purpose has never been investigated. I..