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In April, 2001 a draft of the first questionnaire for graduates and
employers was prepared. Time constraints limited the participation of
members in the initial stage of the questionnaire’s design, although this
would be desirable on future occasions. This initial draft tried to
propose a balanced representation of competences from all three
groups: instrumental, interpersonal and systemic. The provisional
questionnaire was discussed at the first Tuning meeting and some
items were changed by the Tuning members15 . Some groups also
added competences more directly related to their subject area.
(Mathematics, History and Education Science.)
In May 2001, these suggestions were incorporated and the
definitive questionnaire was prepared. Also incorporated, in both
graduate and employer questionnaires, was a series of variables for
identification considered important to the study.
The definitive questionnaires comprised the following 30 competences:
—Instrumental competences:
• Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• Capacity for organisation and planning.
• Basic general knowledge.
• Grounding in basic knowledge of the profession.
• Oral and written communication in your native language.
• Knowledge of a second language.
• Elementary computing skills.
• Information management skills (ability to retrieve and analyse
information from different sources).
• Problem solving.
• Decision-making.
—Interpersonal competences:
• Critical and self-critical abilities.
• Teamwork.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to communicate with experts in other fields.
• Appreciation of diversity and multiculturality.
15 See the questionnaire on the Tuning website: www.relint.deusto.es/TuningProject/
index.html or www.let.rug.nl/TuningProject/index.html or europa.eu.int/comm/education/
tuning.html.
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