Competency based education

What is competency-based education?

• Students have some choice and agency in how they learn and how they demonstrate their learning.

• The competencies are made explicit and efforts are made to help students track their progress.

• Assessment of competencies is an ongoing process, rather than a single summative event.

• The competencies are fixed and ideally well-defined, but the amount of time allotted is somewhat variable.

• All of the above.

Which of the follow is NOT a quality principle for Competency-based education?

• Students advance upon demonstrated mastery.

• » Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

• Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for students.

• Students are expected to master grade level college

• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

Hard skills are ...

• specific abilities, capabilities and skill sets that a person can possess and demonstrate in a measured way , required for a specific job.

• specific personal abilities, and skill sets that an individual can possess and demonstrate, required for any job.

Soft skills are ...

• specific abilities, capabilities and skill sets that a person can possess and demonstrate in a measured way , required for a specific job.

• specific personal abilities, and skill sets that an individual can possess and demonstrate, required for any job.

Competence-based learning focuses...

• lecture-centric, differentiation, and learning outcomes

• context-centric, differentiation, and learning objectives

• learner-centric, differentiation, and learning outcomes

Competence-based learning is...

• flexible to the professors and students and tries to improve abilities to solve problems only.

• flexible to the students and where they are in the learning process to generate operative competences rather than theory only..

With competence-based learning..

• Students are better prepared with the skills necessary to succeed as professionals in real context.

• Students are better prepared with the knowledge necessary to succeed as professionals in real context.

Competency-based learning improves or develops all those skills.

• Ture

• False

• Some of them

Competency based education models....

• What to know, What to develop, How to develop

• What to know, What to develop, How to be

• What to know, What to do, How to be

Competence-based education is also known as...........-based education.