Responsibilities When Using APEGS Competency Assessment System

Before candidates are eligible to apply for their APEGS professional licence, they are required to have four years of engineering/geoscience work experience evaluated by the Experience Review Committee.

Eligibility criteria:

For eligibility, they must be registered as engineer-in-training or geoscientist-in-training, or member-in-training applicants who have been given the work experience reporting option to try and get confirmatory exams waived. 

CBA (Competency-Based Assessment) system:

APEGS utilizes an online system, competency-based assessment (CBA), for the evaluation of its candidates’ work experience. Aside from providing validated examples to demonstrate each of the competencies, candidates must have four years of experience validated in that system.

We have provided the necessary information about the roles and responsibilities of each participant (applicant, validator and assessor) below. So, read these roles and responsibilities so that you can have a clear idea of what you are expected of.

Roles and responsibilities:

The following is an overview of the responsibilities and roles of each participant in the competency assessment system:

Applicants:

·        Give work experience details by means of the Competency Assessment System, which includes working experience chronology and specific examples to address each competency.

·        Provide APEGS with a self-assessed Competence Level for each Competence as per the Competency Rating Scale.

·        Provide contact details of a minimum of four individuals to work as validators to verify and offer feedback on their competency assessment. For those validators who were not given specific competencies to validate, they give an overall evaluation. For instance, if the applicant gave examples from only one supervisor, that supervisor validates all the examples and the other three validators offer general comments and answer the general reference questions that are included in the CBA system. Applicants can’t act as their own validators.

·        The applicant offers additional information if the authority asks them for that.

Validators (P.Eng or P. Geo supervisor/colleague/employer/client):

Confirm the information provided about the work experience of which they have personal knowledge.

Offer Competence Level ratings for Competencies to which they are assigned by an applicant (if applicable).

Offer overall feedback about the applicant’s readiness for APEGS professional registration.

Assessors (eligible APEGS volunteers in the applicant’s practice area)

Offer ratings for each competency.

Review the applicant’s submission and validators’ feedback.

Make a recommendation on the applicant’s readiness for APEGS professional registration.

How to report in the APEGS online CBA system?

 

Get to https://competenceassessmetn.ca.

Choose the section of ‘Applicants’.

Follow the instructions appearing on the screen.

Make an account by virtue of your APEGS Registration/Application number as your User ID.

Pick, as your jurisdiction, ‘Associate of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan’.

You will get an email notification on the approval of your account. The whole of this may take up to five business days. These accounts are approved in a manual way, Monday to Friday (8:00 to 5:00). 

You will get access to the APEGS CBA system by choosing the option of being a registered user and willing to use the Competency Assessment System for APEGS work experience reporting.

Start entering your information adhering to the instructions that appear on the screen. This time, your educational information doesn’t appear in the CBA system.