Professional Development Planning
HE teachers use a variety of strategies to encourage students to reflect upon and evaluate their own learning experiences and plan for their own development. The term Personal Development Planning (PDP) is being used to describe this process. Universities UK, the Standing Conference of Principles, the Quality Assurance Agency and the Higher Education Academy York have produced guidelines to promote this as a core educational process.
Personal Development Planning helps student to learn, increases their awareness of skills, values, attitudes and competencies and thus has also a positive impact and a potential to enhance students' employability. See also "Guide for Busy Acedemics No 3 using Personal Development Planning to help students gain employment"
Competency Assessment
This relates to the development and current application of criteria to assess the workplace or on-the-job performance of individuals. In particular, attention is given to definitions or understandings of what constitutes a competent person.
