Competency-Based Exams in Professional Education

Abstract

Exams and evaluations are components of an essential didactic method that confirm a definable performance. In professional education final exams and an official certificate of performance are important prerequisites for entry into the labour market. In order to comply with recent employers’ requirements, the exams should be competency-based. The article gives insights into the legal provisions for carrying out examinations and requirements towards examiners in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and allows a comparison with examples from Germany. Furthermore, the article provides practical cases of respective rules’ implementation and challenges for the examination systems in the named three countries.