SCANS Matrix
Program: Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration, and Electrical
CIP: 470201
LIST ALL COURSES REQUIRED AND IDENTIFIED COMPETENCIES
Competencies
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HART 1401
Basic Electricity for HVAC
HART 1307
Refrigeration Principles
CNBT 1301
ELPT 1329
Introduction to Construction
Industry
Residential Wiring
ELPT 1325
National Electrical Code 1
HART 1341
Residential Air Conditioning
ELPT 1357
Industrial Wiring
ELPT 1345
Commercial Wiring
HART 2336
ELPT 2305
Air Conditioning
Troubleshooting
Motors and Transformers
HART 2442
Commercial Refrigeration
HART 2441
Commercial Air Conditioning
CNBT 2437
Construction Estimating
COMPETENCY REFERENCES
8 Basic use of computers
7 Workplace Competencies: resources;
interpersonal skills; information; systems; and
technology.
6 Personal Qualities: A worker must display responsibility,
self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and
honesty.
5 Thinking Skills: A worker must think creatively, make decisions,
solve problems, visualize, know how to learn, and reason
effectively.
4 Speaking and Listening: Organize ideas and communicate orally;
receive, attend to, interpret, and respond to verbal messages and other
cues.
3 Arithmetic or Mathematics: Perform basic computations and approach
practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical
techniques.
2 Writing: Communicate thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing, and
create documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts.
1 Reading: Locate, understand, and interpret written information in prose and in documents such
as manuals, graphs, and schedules.
SCANS Matrix & Competencies
Revised March 2010
SCANS Competencies Checklist
SCANS COMPETENCIES FOR PROGRAM Air Conditioning, Heating Refrigeration, and
Electrical
Competency
Course where
Competency is Assessed
1 READING: Locate, understand, HART 1401, Hart 1307,
and interpret written information CNBT 1301, ELPT 1329,
in prose and in documents such ELPT 1325, HART 1341,
as manuals, graphs, and
ELPT 1357, ELPT 1345,
schedules.
HART 2336, ELPT 2305,
HART 2442, HART 2441,
CNBT 2437
2 WRITING: Communicate
HART 1401, Hart 1307,
thoughts, ideas, information, and CNBT 1301, ELPT 1329,
messages in writing, and create ELPT 1325, HART 1341,
documents such as letters,
ELPT 1357, ELPT 1345,
directions, manuals, reports,
HART 2336, ELPT 2305,
graphs, and flow charts.
HART 2442, HART 2441,
CNBT 2437
3 ARITHMETIC OR
HART 1401, ELPT 1329,
MATHEMATICS: Perform basic ELPT 1325, HART 1341,
computations and approach
ELPT 1357, ELPT 1345,
practical problems by choosing HART 2336, ELPT 2305,
appropriately from a variety of
HART 2442, HART 2441,
mathematical techniques.
CNBT 2437
4 SPEAKING AND LISTENING: HART 1401, Hart 1307
Organize ideas and communicate ELPT 1329, ELPT 1325,
orally; receive, attend to,
HART 1341, ELPT 1357,
interpret, and respond to verbal ELPT 1345, HART 2336,
messages and other cues.
ELPT 2305, HART 2442,
HART 2441, CNBT 2437
5 THINKING SKILLS: A worker
HART 1401, Hart 1307
must think creatively, make
ELPT 1329, ELPT 1325,
decisions, solve problems,
HART 1341, ELPT 1357,
visualize, know how to learn, and ELPT 1345, HART 2336,
reason effectively.
ELPT 2305, HART 2442,
HART 2441, CNBT 2437
6 PERSONAL QUALITIES: A
worker must display
responsibility, self-esteem,
sociability, self-management,
integrity, and honesty.
Method of Assessment
Quiz and examination
questions
Quiz and examination
questions
Classroom exercises, and
quiz and examination
questions
Classroom and lab exercises
Classroom exercises, and
quiz and examination
questions
7 WORKPLACE
COMPETENCIES:
resources;interpersonal skills;
information; systems; and
technology
8 BASIC USE OF COMPUTERS HART 1307, HART 2336
SCANS Matrix & Competencies
Revised March 2010
Classroom/computer lab
exercises
Findings and Plans for
Improvements