The document discusses competency evaluation approaches including norm-referenced and criterion-referenced. It also discusses Singapore's use of a teacher competency model consisting of five competency clusters that is used for hiring, evaluation, career pathing, and determining bonuses. The competency model along with performance goals at each employment stage help continuously improve teaching and educate students.

2. Competency is defined
as "the quality or state
of being legally
qualified or adequate.”

3.  norm-referenced : the measured competence
is interpreted and judged in terms of the
individual’s position relative to some known
group.
 criterion-referenced evaluation: is
interpreting and judging the measured
competence in terms of a clearly defined and
delimited domain.

4.  The two approaches have common and
different characteristics. Both require a
specification of the achievement domain to
be mastered, a relevant and representative
sample of tasks or test items. They use the
same types of tasks and qualities of
goodness (e.g. validity, reliability) for judging
them.

5.  norm-referenced evaluation typically covers a large
domain of requirements with a few tasks used to
measure mastery, emphasises discrimination among
individuals, favour stasks of average difficulty, omits
very easy and very hard tasks, and requires a clearly
defined group of persons for interpretations;
 criterion-referenced evaluation focuses on a
delimited domain of requirements with a relatively
large number of tasks used to measure
mastery, emphasises what requirements the
individual can or cannot perform, matches task
difficulty of requirements, and demands a clearly
defined and delimited achievement domain.

6. In U.S.A. teachers themselves recognize that
most current evaluation systems do not offer
meaningful feedback on their performance.
Administrators to use a binary rating sheet
once a year, on which they check off whether
a teacher is either “satisfactory” or
“unsatisfactory” on a series of items.

7. Current evaluation systems do not allow to
recognize or learn from top performers, to
help all teachers by supporting their
growth, or to respond forcefully when teacher
performance falls well below acceptable
levels.

8. One element stands out: the development and
thorough use of performance-linked
“competencies” to measure, reward, and
develop teacher performance.
Singapore has been able to demonstrate
extraordinary student learning results.
In Singapore the majority of teachers favored
an even stronger link between performance
and pay than the plan provided.

10. It consists of one core competency, “Nurturing
the Whole Child,” and four other major
competency clusters, “Cultivating
Knowledge,” “Winning Hearts and Minds,”
“Working with Others,” and “Knowing Self and
Others.

11. Singapore’s Education Ministry officials and
school leaders use the competency model in
conjunction with the achievement of
performance goals at each stage of
employment to:
 Hire and train aspiring teachers;
 Set annual competency achievement targets;
 Evaluate competency levels throughout the
year;
 Match each teacher to a career path; and
 Determine annual bonuses.path; and
 Determine annual bonuses

12.  Attractive compensation. Teachers are relatively well
paid, have performance bonus opportunities, and
have excellent benefits.
 Multiple opportunities for career advancement. There
are three education tracks, each with several levels of
advancement.
 Ongoing professional support. Includes paid
leave, scholarships for advanced study, online
training opportunities, and opportunities to
collaborate with colleagues.
 Chance to be part of a vitally important and revered
profession. Throughout Singapore, there are
recruiting posters inviting people to become teachers
so they can “Mould the Future of the Nation.”

13. Continuously improving and informing
teaching so as to better educate all students.
In that way, a complete evaluation system
includes not only measurable results, but also
professional skills, such as curriculum
planning, and of course the competencies
that are critical for achieving results.