Question

In the statements given below, identify those which are related to competency-based curriculum design?

a) The abilities and learning styles of individuals get a support

b) Individuals memory based knowledge is stressed

c) Individuals are helped to achieve their potential

d) Domain specific proficiency of individuals is focused

e) Curriculum gets designed with an idealist perspective

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. a, b and c only
2. b, d and e only
3. a, c and d only
4. d, e and a only

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : a, c and d only

Curriculum design:

• Curriculum design focuses on the creation of the overall course blueprint, mapping content to learning objectives, including how to develop a course outline and build the course.
• Each learning objective is met with assessment strategies, exercises, content, subject matter analysis, and interactive activities.
• Curriculum design is a term used to describe the purposeful, deliberate, and systematic organization of curriculum (instructional blocks) within a class or course.
• It is a way for teachers to plan instruction. When teachers design a curriculum, they identify what will be done, who will do it, and what schedule to follow.
• The ultimate goal is to improve student learning, but there are other reasons to employ curriculum design as well.

Competency-based curriculum

• A competency-based curriculum can be interpreted as a curriculum concept that emphasizes the development of the ability to do the task with certain performance standards so that the result can be felt by the students in the form of mastery of a particular set of competencies. CBC is directed to develop the knowledge, understanding, values, abilities, attitude, and interests of the students in order to be able to do something in the form of skill, accuracy, and success with full responsibility.
• CBC is oriented to individual creativity to do something in the form of skill and expected effects that arise from students through a series of meaningful learning experiences, and diversity that can be.
• The development of CBC focuses on certain competencies in the form of knowledge, skill, and attitude that students demonstrate as a form of understanding of the concept they learn. The application of this curriculum allows teachers to assess learning outcomes that reflect mastery and understanding of what they learn.
• In competency-based curriculum design, decisions are based on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) needed to be competent in the profession.
• CBE focuses on outcomes of learning rather than the process of teaching; emphasizes the demonstration of abilities in addition to knowledge; de-emphasizes time-based training and seeks to promote greater learner-centeredness. 

The process of competency-based curriculum design typically follows a similar process:

1. Development or identification of competencies
2. Organizing competencies into themes.
3. Organizing themes into courses.
4. Organizing courses into a curriculum.
5. Curriculum Review/evaluation.
6. Ongoing program evaluation

Conclusion:

In CBE, student readiness is assessed by clear performance outcomes that directly relate to and measure student competence. Competency-based design is learner-centered and used to prepare students for near and far future work by creating a curriculum designed to help students develop those skills and assessing their success in the program by how well they perform on assessments designed to assess their competence on each competency. Since it emphasizes skill development according to the interest and ability of the students. Hence, option (3) is correct.