ECVET reflector typology
From the “loner” to the “internationalist”
The ECVET reflector study focus on assessment and transfer implies considering mobility on the basis of two major processes:
1. Assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes achieved during a mobility period
Key question: Which is the role of “units” in the assessment and certification system? Is there any awareness of parts of qualifications?
2. Transfer of the learner’s achievements to his/her home countries’ VET and qualifications system.
Key question: Does transfer (already) take place in international and/or in national contexts?
The focus on processes allows for identifying implicit analogies to ECVET within qualifications systems which increase the range of the above described combinations. We can identify such implicit analogies in countries where for instance no procedures are developed for transferring partial qualifications gained abroad but methods for transferring learning outcomes are applied between training providers domestically in specific cases.
The holistic loner type and the unit-aware internationalist type are both extreme types with a wide range of possibilities spanning between them – they cannot be found in a “pure form”.
Based on the two dimensions “assessment” and “transfer”, the following three types of qualifications systems can be identified:
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