Douglas Alexander,
I appreciate your review.
No, you started from a different perspective of the intents of teaching Common Sense.
The purpose is NOT to measure competence. Competence involves a broad range of techno-centric skills and systems of relationships specific to a position of professional "application". These details are most often learned on the job. Common Sense skills provide a better foundation from which to "build" these skill applications.
Common Sense are the primary tools for getting the work done within a social group. An individual person's Common Sense provides the means to acquire respect within a social group. Of the 10 or so areas of competency, each person will likely score high in a few areas and low in other areas. The assessments are not an overall evaluation; assessments are only used to provide study materials to build the weakest areas of Common Sense relative to a social group.
Evaluation scores are based in the application of skills relative to a social group in emotional, social, and logical communication relationships. The evaluations are intended to indicate the "POTENTIAL" to more effectively participate in a particular social group, but does NOT at all reflect competency. The "continuous improvement feedback" between actual results and educational materials provides the only link between materials and competency.
As a Certifying Organization, the intent is to always evolve continuous improvement as social groups evolve.
The purpose IS to measure a MINIMUM, and then GRADUATED levels of skills needed to become part of "a group" that shares respect for one another; useful exchanges of information. Logic and Predicting consequences moderates improvements so that a person can participate in the Group without providing statements that contradict themselves. Stating ones' self to be reliable and then procrastinating or being late is a contradiction.
And these skills of Self-Esteem specific to a group allow a person to more easily become part of different groups of their choosing without having to endure the significantly long processes of "reading the room" and related "trial and error".
Common Sense = Self-Esteem(group) Logic Predicting Consequences
Common Sense within a group is mutually moderated by Self-Esteem, logic, and predicting consequences.
A physicist in the time of Galileo with Common Sense would have perhaps built a foundation for the Church that God was the center of the universe and not the mythical gods attributed to Earth, Moon, and Sun. So in this way the Church could better deal with the new technologies and related relationships developed.
Common Sense is to make incremental changes in a way that contributes to mutual respect.
You pose an interesting business relationship, as a choice, Graduated Certification can become a requirement by people who want to better understand who they are hiring, and who they are retaining. Those with the capacity to better relate to their social group is a type of performance standard. Those without a minimum competence in applying Common Sense relative to their profession are less sought after for leadership positions. I'll have to add this to the business model.
Regarding School Accreditation and related Self-Assessment:
I'm familiar with the process. The Accreditation Agency tries to simultaneously enforce diversity in education and students graduating with the skills they need for employment.
However, a Trade School teaches skills, while Universities build brains to teach one's self.
"The Great Purpose of higher education is to build the brain to Efficiently teach one's self; to become an expert at anything Passionately pursued." ~James Dunn
There are over 1000 fields of study in Electrical Engineering. The same is true of other disciplines of engineering, business, art, music, politics ... Universities cannot provide certifications in all the different fields in which people become employed.
However, Common Sense is the relational tools that apply to almost everyone related to emotional, social, and logical communication processes.
Understanding HOW-TO develop respect within a social group is valuable for both the individual and the group.
The purpose of UA-KiTS.com is to off-load much of the assessment continuous improvements from the groups needing individuals with strong skills in certain areas. But realize, that many groups need members with "weak" skills in certain areas. Actually certain distributions. An out of work scientist would make a terrible candidate for janitorial position. How long would they be happy in that position. But if Monster.com had a tool to put in the distributions of the individual, they could search for related jobs they may never thought even existed that strongly relate to their persona of Common Sense for the related group.
Students graduating from High School can put in their Common Sense scoring and the most related jobs can come up without having to know the related keywords. The students can then read the skill sets desired and go to a related trade school, University, or community college to acquire the related functional skills.
If they have an interest in a particular field, the Common Sense scores needed in those fields can provide the individual with the areas of self-improvement that they need to develop to enter the related field successfully.
A group of experts in assessment in a particular field can produce an assessment for a fraction of the cost of someone already overburdened with their professional activities. Many groups share similar features that can be used as a beginning template from which to modify and build.