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How Do You Know When You Have Actually Developed a Skill?

Completing a course is evidence of learning activity. It is not necessarily evidence of skill.

You can perform the task

You can actually produce the expected output.

You can repeat the performance

One successful attempt may be luck. Consistency provides stronger evidence.

You need less assistance

Increasing independence suggests development.

You can handle variation

You can adapt when the problem changes slightly.

Your quality improves

Results become more accurate, useful, clear, efficient, or reliable.

You can explain your decisions

Understanding why you made a choice is particularly important for complex skills. Skill is better demonstrated by performance evidence than by self-description alone.

Knowing your skills is useful. Understanding where those skills come from, which abilities may support them, and where they can take you gives you a much clearer picture.

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