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**Assessment of learning outcomes** Methods and processes used to establish the extent to which a learner has attained particular knowledge, skills and competence. **Competence** The proven ability to use knowledge, skills and personal, social and/or methodological abilities in work or study situations and in professional and personal development. **Competent institution** Institution which is responsible for designing and awarding qualifications or recognising units or other functions linked to ECVET, such as the allocation of ECVET points to qualifications and units, assessment, validation and recognition of learning outcomes under the rules and practices of participating countries. **Credit accumulation** Process through which learners can acquire qualifications progressively by successive assessment of learning outcomes. Set of learning outcomes of an individial which have been assessed and which can beaccumulated towards a qualification or transferred to other leasning programmes or qualification. Numerical representation of the overall weight of learning outcomes in a qualification and of the relative weight of units in relation to the qualification. The outcome of the assimilation of information through learning. Knowledge is the body of facts, principles, theories and pracitces that is related to a field of work or study.
 * Credit fo learning outcomes (credit)**
 * ECVET points**
 * Knowledge**