Measure of Competency - Competency Standard & AXP - Grassroots Effort

I started looking at how the Competency Standard stacks up against the experience tasks in the AXP. I went through all of the experience tasks and kind of assigned them to competencies. Now I'm going through in a more methodical way, and I realized that this is something that you can participate in.

Now that you’re seeing this video or reading this text, you can still add comments about how you think the Competency Standard should be aligned with the AXP.

This is something that NCARB is working on, and will eventually do. But what if there was a real grassroots effort to create an association between these two that you can participate in?

I'm going to make available a link to the Competency Standard that you can download and to the AXP areas, task areas that you can download.

Start looking at how they connect, and I'm going to be publishing my take on it. I'd love to have your input.

For example, I went through the programming and analysis tasks, and all of those seem to fit within the first seven competencies. Most of them are in competency two, but there are a few in 1, 3, 4, and five, a couple in six and one in seven.

Keep in mind these tasks in the AXP are not a comprehensive list of every task that you're going to perform. So I'd love to know too if there are tasks that you're performing and you can't find what area to put it under, or it isn't listed as a specific task. Write it in. I'd love to hear what that task is. I'd love to have a short, brief description of what that task is, so we can assign it to a competency based on what you think it should be.

So now the project planning and design will also have tasks that go into some of these early design and documentation domain categories, as will the project development and documentation tasks will also go into this first domain of design and documentation.

So we want to fill this in so that instead of doing a task and just putting it in this broad area of, say, programming and analysis, that we actually see that it's applying to a specific competency.

NCARB created this Competency Standard to really provide a bar of understanding of what architects can do at the point of licensure. The experience you get is supposed to lead you to that point so the experienced tasks that you're doing, should be assigned or associated with competencies that lead you there.