BS ISO/IEC 20006-2:2015 BSl Standards Publication Information technology for learning, education and training Information model for competency Part 2: Proficiency level information model bsi. ..making excellenCe a habit. BSISO/IEC20006-2:2015 BRITISH STANDARD Nationalforeword This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO/IEC 20006-2:2015. The UK committee regards the interoperable representation, attribution and aggregation of information about learner competency as an important goal, on which the development of much data-driven educational technology depends. They believe that the difficulty in creating such standards lies not in the complexity of the specifications themselves, but in the need to achieve agreement in principle over how competency in- formation should be interpreted, and therefore represented. In the committee's opinion, it is not clear that ISO/lEC 20006 helps significantly towards such agreement. ISO/lEC 20006 has been developed by a limited number of experts from committees outside the UK, without the benefit of any asso- ciatedimplementationactivity:thespecificationcontainedwithin the standard remains untested. The committee considers that the use of terminology in the standard is unclear and inconsistent. A practical exercise requested by them showed there were widely differing understandings of howthe specification might be implemented, even within the working group responsible for its development. Much experiencewith using competency information has been acquired in the HRprofession,where the expression of competencies is often binary (competent v. not yet competent) and relative to a particular job role.The committee believes that education also requires metrics that allow ranking, which may be demonstrated in a wide variety of different contexts. They believe that there are important and still unresolved questions about how competency attributions should be evidenced, how their reliability can be demonstrated, how consistent meaning can be supported, and how the relationships between different competency representations can bemapped.Theybelievethat confidentanswerstothesequestions can only come from extensive piloting, and until this happens, they believethat the production of an international standard inthis area ispremature. The committee believes that there are other public specifications available that offer more potential for supporting successful pilots than ISO/IEC 20006. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IST/43, Information technology for learning, education and training. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. The British Standards Institution 2015. Published by BSI Standards Limited 2015 ISBN9780580733413 ICS 03.100.30; 35.240.99 BS ISO/IEC 20006-2:2015 BRITISH STANDARD Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This British Standard was published under the authority of theStandards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 April 2015 Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication Date Text affected