The Drive for Professionalism - how we got to where we are

Jeremy Tafler

UK Professional Bodies: The Regulatory Landscape Wednesday November 26th 2008

Mayfair Conference Centre, London

The Drive for Professionalism - how we got to where we are

• lineage

• advantages

• assessing competence

why?

A profession is an occupation that controls its own work, organised by a special set of institutions, sustained in part by a particular ideology of expertise and service.

Freidson

• public interest

• private interest

guarantee standards

employment shelter

why?

Guarding the gates

professionalexperience

accredita tioneg

degrees

professionalassessm ent

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'

Red Queen, Alice though the Looking Glass

how?

the standardsdom ain

increasingdifficu lty

sub-dom ain

specificcom petence

judgem ent m inim umstandard

eg associate m em ber,specia lism B

real performance

applicant’s experience exam ination resu lt(= fu ture perform ance?)

evidence

things to think about

• hierarchies

• consistency

• equivalence

• predictive validity

• moving target

The Drive for Professionalism - how we got to where we are

Jeremy Tafler

UK Professional Bodies: The Regulatory Landscape Wednesday November 26th 2008

Mayfair Conference Centre, London