Methodologies

Competency-Based Training and AssessmentCBT&A

An approach to TVET in which training and assessment are organised around the demonstrated ability to perform defined occupational competencies to an explicit standard.

Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBT&A) shifts the focus from time served and inputs to demonstrated competence: learners progress by proving they can perform tasks to a published occupational standard. Curricula are modularised around units of competency, and assessment gathers evidence of actual performance rather than testing knowledge in isolation.

CBT&A underpins much of modern TVET reform because it makes qualifications transparent, portable and labour-market relevant. It is closely linked to occupational standards, qualifications frameworks and recognition of prior learning, and is a recurring methodology across indeson's curriculum and assessment engagements.

Related concepts

National Qualifications FrameworkNQFCompetency-based qualifications are levelled and made portable through a qualifications framework.Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingTVETCBT&A is a core delivery and assessment methodology used within TVET.Developing A Curriculum (DACUM)DACUMDACUM job analysis produces the occupational profiles that underpin competency-based training.Recognition of Prior LearningRPLRPL assesses prior competencies against the same occupational standards used in CBT&A.Dual Training (Dual System)Dual training is frequently delivered on a competency-based basis.

Where indeson applied it

Train the Trainers on CBT&A Methodology and Technical Skill Upgradation, NVQF Levels 5–7

Pakistan

Certifying 100 master and industry trainers to cascade competency-based training to 1,000 teachers across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan

Competency-based training and assessment is central to the Pakistan Green TVET (CBT&A) project.

Development of Dual TVET Programs in the Georgian ICT Sector

Georgia

Dual TVET system development and ICT sector modernization

Competency-based approaches were applied in the Georgian dual TVET programmes.

Rehabilitation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Somalia

Somalia

Rebuilding Somalia's vocational training system: Somali NQF levels 1–5, quality assurance, teacher qualification and inclusive access in a fragile context

Competency-based training featured in the Somalia TVET rehabilitation work.

Supporting a systematic reform in Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in Sudan

Sudan

Comprehensive RPL system development and implementation

Competency-based standards underpinned the Sudan RPL assignment.