Abstract

MORENO OLIVOS, Tiburcio. La evaluación de competencias en educación. Sinéctica [online]. 2012, n.39, pp.01-20. ISSN 2007-7033.

Since the end of last century, competency based education has reappeared worldwide with great strength. Mexican educational reforms carried out in last decade in the whole educational system have one common element: a competency based curriculum. As it is occurring in other countries, Mexico is experienced a state of effervescence for competency based education. Yet confusion and uncertainty seem the distinctive seal in all those reforms. While it may be true that de definition of competency is polysemic and complex, there is not an unified theory for implementing competency based curriculum. If we added up to such situation the difficulties posed by assessment of learning under this approach, we might say that conditions are set up for a state of ambiguity and bewilderment as it happening nowadays at schools. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theoreical debate on assessment in competency based educaion and to and share some basic methodological tools that might help teacher improve their theoreical concepions and assessment pracices on competency based education.

Keywords : education competencies; competency assessment; competency-based curriculum; learning skills.