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SAMEEO SHEESH and RADIA TAMIM

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The competency based primary education is a major initiative for ensuring the quality of outcome of the learners. It is one of the major educational endeavors in order to achieve the Education for All (EFA) and ensuring the quality of education to the all learners since this competency based education is focused on the qualitative aspect of learning outcome of the learners. This policy brief paper is going to highlight the some issues regarding quality outcome in response to the competency based primary education.

The quality outcome reflects the achievement of various skills of the learners.  It includes what children know and can do as well as comprises the attitudes and expectations they have for themselves and their societies. The Quality outcome focuses on the learners’ achievement in literacy and numeracy, life skills, health outcomes and so on. It also emphasizes on using of the formative assessment. (UNICEF 2000)

Hence, this competency based primary education curriculum (defines in the Endnote 1) would be reflected in the all spheres of the primary education activities, for example, textbook development, teachers’ training and assessment process. It is important to determine what competency a learner would acquire on each grade as well as after the completion of the primary education. Thus, to implement the competency based primary education curriculum the contents would focus on the grade-wise competencies. Moreover, the learners’ learning outcome would be assessed on the achievement of the competencies. So, it is essential that the teachers have to be prepared for this and the pre and in service-training program have to be designed accordingly. It would add some qualitative aspects of the present training system since now the learning outcomes are well defined and the teachers would get more concrete objective of teaching for the class-room’s practice.