POLYMODAL ORGANOLEPTIC DIAGNOSIS OF SENSORY-PERCEPTUAL COMPETENCE IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION — THE SEVEN-STATION PROTOCOL AND THE SENSORY PASSPORT
Abstract
The article substantiates a polymodal organoleptic procedure for diagnosing the sensory-perceptual competence of learners in vocational education institutions. The weakest link of any methodology that aims to develop professional perception is the objective measurement of that perception, since conventional forms of assessment record the result a learner reaches and leave the perceptual process behind that result unexamined. The article argues that the widespread practice of reducing the diagnostic stage to the visual, auditory and kinaesthetic typology is both empirically unsupported and pedagogically unproductive, and it proposes an alternative in which the competence is operationalised as a matrix of seven modal components crossed with four functional layers. The diagnostic instrument built on that matrix is a circuit of seven stations through which the whole group passes in two practical sessions, with a neutral pause inserted between the gustatory and the olfactory station to counter sensory adaptation. The stimulus materials of each station are adapted from international sensory analysis standards, and the three differences that separate industrial panel testing from pedagogical diagnosis — the purpose, the attainable precision, and the size of the descriptive vocabulary — are stated explicitly. The results of the circuit are recorded in a sensory passport which is completed together with the learner rather than kept from the learner, and three uses of that record are described. The procedure requires no laboratory equipment and no preparation in the neurosciences on the part of the production-training master.
Keywords
sensory-perceptual competence, polymodal diagnosis, organoleptic assessment, vocational education, sensory passport, neuropedagogy, modal components, perceptual learning, diagnostic protocol, professional perception, cognitive load, sensory adaptation.How to Cite
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