Drumbeat/p2pu/Assessment and Accreditation/Webcraft Assessments - detailed

This is our workspace for hashing out the potential mechanics for authentically assessing competency metrics of specific interest to people participating in the School of Webcraft. This list will grow as more competencies are identified, but it is not meant to be inclusive of all the possible skills and knowledge of interest.

We could use help in identifying specific competencies that are of interest to the open-source programming community. Here are some ideas:

1. If you are an employer of webcraft gurus, please add any criteria of interest to you when you evaluate potential employees. We would also appreciate any information about you that you care to provide so that we can understand why these skills are of interest.
2. We believe it should be possible to perform certain analyses on professional social networks (e.g., LinkedIn). For example, recommendations or job ads could be scanned for passages that relate desirable skills and habits, which can then be cut and pasted into a spreadsheet and analyzed (by hand or using text-analysis software) for commonalities. The resulting dataset could then be subject to consideration by a community of programming peers for validity.
3. If you are aware of any references or other sources of information regarding "hacker habits" or other relevant competencies, please point to them here.

Research Methodology v1 - We are also using a new (to us, at least) method to extract information about skills and habits that web developers find desirable, using LinkedIn as the raw database.

If there is a specific aspect of this page that you feel merits further discussion, please direct your question to the School of Webcraft listserv.

Web development competencies

This is the list of competencies we have thus far. See above for ideas on expanding and refining this list. Note that there is some overlap among these competencies in terms of the specific skills and knowledge that the competencies are intended to capture. We will probably want to refine this list to just a few key competencies that seem most crucial, but we can retain the master list and perhaps map the items in this list to the final choices so that people can see how their specific interests have been addressed.

Each of the list items leads to a separate page where we can hash out the component parts and measurement options in detail.