Training policies: innovation of training and evaluation systems

Abstract

Continuing training funded for some years is introducing within its tender notices, in a more or less explicit form, the request for assessment of learning and certification of skills following the training courses. The requests are part of a well-defined regulatory path that aims to make the learning outcomes on the one hand legible within standard reference frames, on the other qualifiable within the labor market.

However, the introduction of certain instances within the calls does not resolve several issues regarding new training policies: first of all what are the necessary innovations of the evaluation processes within the Funds (macro level), secondly what are the competences methodological and docimological requirements of the actuators (meso level), finally what are the conditions for companies and workers to become an active part of the processes of identification, validation and certification of skills (micro level).

This contribution examines the three levels, providing some reflections on the critical issues that Funds, Actuators and Companies could encounter in the juncture in which they intend to introduce, alongside training actions, services for transparency of the skills achieved.