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Chapter 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0932-5.ch013
ABSTRACT
Competency-based education is still at its early stages considering the lack of commonly accepted best
practices to develop, implement and most importantly evaluate competency-based curriculum. This
chapter proposes an evaluation framework for the competency-based curriculum as a result of au-
thors’ experience with a fully developed and implemented competency-based curriculum in a Master of
Healthcare Administration program. In this chapter, authors will revisit the important concepts about
competency-based education and curriculum evaluation. Authors will provide operational defnitions
and a framework for the evaluation of competency-based curriculum. The goal of this chapter is to pro-
vide guidance to the competency-based degree programs during the evaluation of competency-based
curriculum for continuous quality improvement.
INTRODUCTION
As an introduction to the chapter, this section briefly reviews the current literature on the concepts of
competency, competency models, and the structure of competency-based education programs; the de-
velopment of competency-based curriculum; and the use of curriculum evaluation models regardless
of the program structure (competency-based or credit-based). It is important to understand these main
concepts before implementing an evaluation framework. Without this understanding, it will be difficult
for practitioners to develop a meaningful evaluation framework of their own or to incorporate this one
into a competency-based curriculum or corresponding degree programs.
A Framework for the
Evaluation of Competency-
Based Curriculum
Devrim Ozdemir
Des Moines University, USA
Carla Stebbins
Des Moines University, USA