Competency Based Education Has Changed Throughout The Last...

Competency-based Education Jasmine Noble Indiana University Abstract Competency based education is a widely used method of education that focuses on guiding students to and by predetermined outcomes. This paper will focus how competency based education has changed throughout the last decade, as well as how it can be implemented to day. I will follow the research done by Anne Mette Morcke, Tim Dornan, and Berit Eika on how outcome based education effects student education. To show evidence of the usefulness of competency-based education I will tie in behaviorist theory as well as self-worth, and ability. Keywords: Self-worth, competency—based education, outcome- based education, outcomes Competency-based Learning A†¦show more content†¦In this paper I will summarize the thoughts of Morcke et al, explain my point of view, and provide evidence on how this method can be useful in a high school setting. Outcome (competency) based education article summary Morcke, Dornan and Eika, composed an article about the origins, theoretical basics and empirical evidence of competency-based education. Morcke states that outcome or competency based education is guided education based upon predetermined outcomes. Competency based education has been around and used sporadically for the last decade. Competency-based education arose from the educational changes that were a result of the space race in the 1960’s. This basis of this type of education first arose from behaviorist theories. Following the lead of the likes of B.F. Skinner and Bloom competency theory followed the idea that teaching should or could be based solely on observable behavior. This idea was both criticized and agreed with by many. A large critic of competency-based education was Stenhouse; who argued that predetermined goals would not be effect in teaching. He believed that using this method of education one was not easily able to specify goals or asses the progress of stu dents. Stenhouse also argues that the correct or best way to educate is to draw the knowledge from the students, not train students. Competency- based education was reformed in the 1980’s by Spady and Harden who named it the performance-based