“4Cyourway”: A Competence Framework for Measuring Competence Growth from Secondary Vocational to Higher Education and Curriculum Design

The development of a competence framework (4Cyourway) which is meant to give insight in the consecutive stages of competence development is described. The development of the framework followed a design-based research approach. Generic competence statements derived from behavior-related competency frameworks (Bartram and SHL Group 2005) can be applied at different levels of vocational and professional education. The question is what is the meaning of those statements at those different levels? For example, analysis competence means quite different things at secondary vocational education versus bachelor or master education. Three studies are described using the framework.