提升專門職業技術人員考試制度之效能～以技師考試制度為例   全文下載

Strategies for Enhancing the Efficacy of Current Examination System for Certifying Professional and Technical Personnel - Professional Engineer As An Example

本文探討如何提升專門職業及技術人員考試制度之效能，並以技師考試制度為例，文中先就考試制度進行現況問題檢討，包括：
（一）考用不能配合，執業率偏低；
（二）考試命題內容理論為主，缺乏實務性命題；
（三）考試方式以筆試及申論題為主，欠缺多元化考試；
（四）考試及格方式與社會需求量關連性不足。
針對上述問題，探討可能改進之策略與方法。包括：
（一）考試多元化與兩階段考試，理論與實務兼顧；
（二）工作經驗納入應考資格，建立教、訓、考用專業人才養成制度；
（三）科別簡併與執業範圍管理健全化；
（四）推廣量尺分數應用。

The purpose of this paper is to explore strategies for enhancing the efficacy of the current examination system for certifying professional and technical personnel, using professional engineers as an example to illustrate key points. Discussions on the challenges we have faced are first presented: (1) a poor demand in the engineer job market: low employment rate of certified professional engineers; (2) lack of test questions to reflect practicality and lack of an effective test mode to validate professional skills; (3) leaning much toward written tests and essay writing without identifying and incorporating multifactors; and (4) low reliability of the passing scores: a poor correlation between a passing score and the prediction of good performance at job. Then several alternative strategies are presented, aiming at the objective of better equipping our professionals with knowledge and skills for global competition with the aid of an examination system, under which human resources can be effectively developed through education, trainings, exams, and employments. Alternatives include (1) two-stage examination mode to incorporate multifactors in test questions to reflect the practical needs in the engineer job market; (2) requirement of work experience for eligibility to take exams; (3) consolidation of professional practice categories for better management of each category of professional knowledge and skills; and (4) application of scale score to improve the reliability and validity of the examination.