How to read the levels¶
Every competency in this framework is described on one scale, the Competency-Based Certification (CBC) scale. It has one feature that catches everyone out the first time, so it is worth a page of its own.
The scale¶
A level names where a learner is — not what they are doing¶
This is the offset. A level says where a learner is. The activities listed against that level are what they do to reach the next one.
So on a competency page, the rung labelled 1 — Has Knowledge holds the activities that carry a learner from Has Knowledge up to 2 — With Assistance. Every rung on this site spells that out on its last line, so you never have to hold the offset in your head while reading.
Retired vocabulary
An older scale — Learner · Advanced Beginner · Practitioner · Trainer/Proficient · Expert — is still in circulation on some documents. It came from a spreadsheet whose header had two rows, one naming the destination and one naming the performer; the import kept only the second, which shifted every rung by one. Read those documents with care, and use the CBC scale above.
Where a course lands you¶
A training course states the level a learner stands at once they finish, so a course target is always 1–4 — never 0, since no course leaves someone at No Competency.