Open AccessPossible cognitive processes underlying competency assessment
Author(s) -
A. B. Boshoff,
Coen Bester
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sa journal of industrial psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2071-0763
pISSN - 0258-5200
DOI - 10.4102/sajip.v29i3.114
Subject(s) - cognition , metacognition , psychology , cognitive psychology , social cognition , variance (accounting) , cognitive reframing , cognitive science , social psychology , accounting , neuroscience , business
Indications are that research on competency assessment lacks a theoretical frame of reference. An attempt is made to explore cognitive processes taking place during assessment explaining the large percentage of rater variance. The principles of five different cognitive theories are discussed in the search for possible explanations namely: cognitive choice-, cognitive evaluation-, social cognitive theories, metacognitive- and the new paradigm approaches