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The Kenya National Examinations Council

COMPETENCY BASED

ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

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AGE BASED PATHWAY

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ACTIVITY

  • Participants brainstorm on Competency based Assessment framework (CBAF)related aspects

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What is Competency?

What is a Competency Based Curriculum (CBC)?

What is Competency Based Assessment (CBA)?

What do you know about the Competency Based Assessment Framework?

What is the linkage between CBC and CBA?

What are the major shifts from Objective-based Assessment to Competency-based Assessment?

What are Core Competencies and Core Values?

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OBJECTIVES

OF

CBAF

  • Improving Learning, Instruction & Assessment
  • Identifying and Nurturing Learner Potential
  • Measuring Learner Participation in CSL & Acquisition of Values
  • Feedback to Stakeholders
  • Evidence for Accountability

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Interrelations between various components of CBC and CBA

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STRUCTURE OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION ASSESSMENT

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STRUCTURE OF MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT

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STRUCTURE OF SENIOR SCHOOL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT

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ACRONYMS IN CBA FRAMEWORK

CA Classroom Assessment

SBA School Based Assessment

KEYA Kenya Early Years Assessment

SYR School Year Report

KPSEA Kenya Primary School Education Assessment

KMYA Kenya Middle Years Assessment

KCBE Kenya Certificate of Basic Education

LEP Learner Exit Profile

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ACTIVITY

  • Participants brainstorm and explain the principles guiding assessment

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PRINCIPLES GUIDING ASSESSMENT

  • accurately measures what it intends to measure

Validity

  • consistency in producing identical results

Reliability

  • equality, equity and justice

Fairness

    • responsive to the needs of the situation and learner

Flexibility

    • accommodates all learners

Accessibility

    • economy of time, effort and cost

Practicability

    • assessment tasks relate to real-life experiences

Authenticity

    • sufficient evidence to reach an assessment decision

Sufficiency

    • immediate

Timely Feedback

    • involves self, peer and teacher assessment

Collaboration

    • recognition of current competencies

Currency

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TYPES OF ASSESSMENT

Formative Assessment

Assessment for learning – designed and administered during the learning process

Assessment as learning – learners evaluate their work against learning outcomes

For example, Classroom Assessment

And school Based Assessment

Summative Assessment

Assessment of learning – undertaken at the end of a learning period

For example, National Assessment

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THEORIES OF LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

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Cognitive Development

Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory

Bruner’s Cognitive Development Theory

Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory

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Social Constructivism

Dewey’s Social Constructivism amplified by

    • Elliot
    • Jonassen
    • Honebein

Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

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Behaviourism

Ivan Pavlov

Edward Thorndike

John B. Watson

B. F. Skinner

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ACTIVITY

  • Participants brainstorm on the role of the various educational stakeholders in Assessment

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EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE CBAF

  • Learners

Parents/Guardians

Headteachers

Teachers

MoE (Quality Assurance and Standards)

Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD)

Sub-County Directors (MoE & TSC)

Curriculum Support Officers

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Thank You