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Affordable to all levels of societies: - The cost of competency based programs varies
by institution and program for the student to learner this competency based
curriculum. Many institutions have created competency based curriculum programs
precisely as a strategy to increase learning and to lower the cost of education. In
many institutions have the tuition depends on how long it takes a student to
complete their education courses. The learner progresses through the materials that
are less expensive the competency based curriculum. Since this curriculum started to
offer by the schools are eliminated school fees and also resulted to lower tuition fees.
The Student will work on their own pace: - Competence based curriculum is
curriculum that will engaged the learners to work their own pace. This will lead the
student to master the content of their lesson and to strengthen the competency-based
training of the student which will lies the ownership of learning into the students
and let them meet a certain big-picture understanding of their lessons. Therefore;
student simply don’t just move on with a big gap in their understanding but rather
they work at their own pace until they prove their mastery of contents. They are also
assessed right exactly when they are confident to demonstrate their competencies,
exactly in a way that fits them and in a way that captures who they really are.
This curriculum will address the students' critical learning gaps, knowledge, and
skill, competency-based schools proactively challenge the age-old practices and
bring alternative systems in place to promote success for all the learners.
Critical thinking and problem solving: - Competency based curriculum helps the
students to foster their Problem solving and critical thinking ability to use
knowledge, experience and to reach effective decision making ability. This doesn’t
mean the students need to have an immediate answer but to able to think on their
problems and analyze their problems in order to find possible solutions. This ability
will help the students to develop a well thought out solution within a reasonable
time frame. However, Competency based curriculum will make students skillful so
that they become students who have value and greatly help their society. The ideal
students can think critically and share their thoughts and opinions to other hence
used good judgment and make decisions.
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