ICoBCAcademy

Designing a Credential: Claim, Criteria, Evidence and Metadata

Turn a learning or work activity into a credential that means something to a reader.

  • Ability
  • L2 Operate
  • Practitioner
  • Credential design
  • ICB-P01
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Why this course

A weak specification cannot be repaired later: platforms, marketing and wallets only carry what the specification says. This is the core practitioner course and the first Ability badge in two pathways.

What you will be able to do

  1. Write a credential claim and outcomes that state what the earner can do.
  2. Define criteria and the evidence that proves each of them.
  3. Complete the metadata needed for portability, including alignment, level and workload.
  4. Test a specification with a reader outside the issuing team and revise it.

Modules

  1. Start from the claim
  2. Outcomes and criteria
  3. Evidence that proves the claim
  4. Metadata for portability
  5. Naming and description
  6. Testing with readers

Assessment

Submit a complete credential specification for a real or realistic credential, assessed with the ICoBC design rubric; includes peer review.

Badge evidence: Credential specification; rubric result; peer review notes.

Prerequisites: ICB-F01

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers
  • Education and providers
  • Associations and policy

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkCRDSskillL2levelAstage

Credential design (CRDS, VRITE pillar Rigor)

Related skills: Assessment and evidence, Skills taxonomies and alignment. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Blended cohort module for L&D and corporate academy leads. Badge aligns to ICSF CRDS L2 (SFIA 3) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as skill evidence; competency on the job needs a V-series validation.

In education

Micro-credential of 10 h notional workload (about 0.4 ECTS), indicative EQF 4 to 5, assessed by assessed practical task with rubric. Stacks into pathway PW01, PW02.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 10 h (about 0.4 ECTS). Level: ICSF L2, EQF 4 to 5 (indicative). Type of assessment: assessed practical task with rubric. Form of participation: Blended: online self-study and facilitated cohort sessions. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-F01.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Part of these pathways

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Rigor (criteria and evidence) and Value (meaning to readers).

AI dimension: Optional AI drafting of descriptions with a required human edit log.

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The course is open on GitHub in LiaScript format under CC BY 4.0. View the source or read how to suggest a change.