Educational and training organizations management. Requirements to design assessment tasks in the frame of TECO-D research

In this contribution, the relevance of the organizational competencies related to the organizational aspects in the educational sector is analysed at two levels. At the first one, the managerial competencies are introduced according to the scientific literature and related to the learning outcomes, as they are expressed by the “Dublin descriptors”. At the second level, the development of the organizational competencies is described in terms of the constructivist perspective, as a process of conceptual change of the informal reasoning strategies the students bring to bear at the outset of their university practice into the higher-order thinking strategies that can be the outcomes of the University-level courses. The characteristics of effective learning environments to promote the organizational competencies are also discussed.