Facilitation & Assessment of Competence-Based LearningTeacher's Training Programme

About

This course aims to equip technical and vocational education trainers with the ability to design instructional plans to facilitate learning through student-centred learning strategies to teach knowledge and skills of competence. The course will also prepare participants to design assessment specifications, assessment tools and marking schemes for performance-based assessment.

Learning Outcome

Module 1 (24 hours) 
In this module, participants will be able to:

• Explain the concept of competency-based learning
• Analyse the technical skills, thinking/contingency management skills, and social skills of a competence
• Differentiate teacher-centred and student-centred learning
• Apply situated learning theory to design context for learning
• Identify different learning theories suitable for different content
• Design an instructional plan to teach a competence
• Use student-centred learning strategies to facilitatelearning
• Design questions to encourage higher-order thinking
• Provide specific feedback to encourage learning

Module 2 (18 hours) 
In this module, participants will be able to:

• Select an appropriate method to assess competence
• Identify process and product evidence and the evidence source
• Write performance standard statement
• Design assessment specification for formative and summative assessment
• Design assessment tools and respective marking scheme

Programme Outline

Module 1 (24 hours) 

• Design and facilitate competency-based learning
• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• Concept of competence-based learning
• Identify the technical skills, thinking/contingency management, and social skills of a competence
• Situated learning theory
• Design context for learning
• Design an instructional plan to teach a competence
• 4 learning theories
• Use strategies to facilitate learning
• Questioning technique
• Providing feedback

Module 2 (18 hours) 

Performance-Based Assessment

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• Methods to assess competence
• Process and Product evidence
• Direct, indirect and supplementary evidence
• Evidence source
• Performance standard, assessment criteria and their relationship with evidence
• Different types of assessment tools
• Design assessment specifications and marking
• scheme