Session 3:

Competency-based
learning model
Blanca Dinora Delgado Angel
What's a competency?
 A competency is
“the combination of skills,
abilities, and knowledge
needed to perform a specific
task” (p. 8).

U.S. Department of Education report (Jones et al., 2002)

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Bloom's Taxonomy and
Mastery Learning
Cognitive: mental skills

Affective: growth in feelings or emotions

THREE TYPES OF
Psychomotor: manual or physical skills
LEARNING
KSA: Knowledge, skills
and attitudes
Anderson et. al added a fourth dimension to Bloom's
cognitive dimensions: Factual knowledge, conceptual
knowledge, and procedural knowledge AND
metacognition
 COMPETENCIES IN PRACTICE

Competencies specify what the learner will do as

the result of a learning experience and an
expected level of performance.

Performance expectations are what separate

competency statements from simple outcome
statements that only mention the content to be
covered.
Writing competencies

Start with active verbs

Avoid evaluative or relative adjectives or adverbs

SAMPLE COMPETENCIES
 YOUR TURN!

Practice building competencies using any of the scenarios in the chart

 ASSIGNMENT

In your groups, read the task description and follow the

instructions for building your competency and submitting it by
July 20th