COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. RESEARCH ON THE LAST DECADE

COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. RESEARCH ON THE LAST DECADE
Maria Del Pilar Garcia-Chitiva, Tecnologico De Monterrey, Mexico / Katherina Gallardo, Tecnologico De Monterrey, Mexico

(Presented at the International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) which took place on April 27-30, 2024, in Antalya, TURKEY (https://www.2024.icres.net/) and at the International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (ICEMST) (https://www.2024.icemst.com/) organized by the International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES) http://www.istes.org).

Developing relevant competencies for optimal job performance ensures graduates' professional inclusion and success in the labor market. Research on competencies is examined from the business contexts of higher education and with the actors involved: professors, students, graduates, and companies. This paper reviews the research on competency-based training in the last decade. Bibliometric analysis methodologies were approached with 539 documents. As a selection criterion, only articles and conference papers were considered, and 75 of these papers were selected for detailed examination of their content through a stratified sampling. The results indicate that empirical studies predominated over theoretical ones; self reporting and interviews were the preferred techniques; the area with the highest number of studies was Social and Legal Sciences. It is concluded that more studies examining competencies at the graduate level in higher education are needed. From these findings, we derived a taxonomy of competencies identified by areas of knowledge, which is presented in the results.