Quality of Secondary Education Eased on a Competence Approach: Issues and Challenges
Abstract
There has been active discussion of the so-called 21st-century competencies students need for a number of years. The process has been supported by the increasing significance given to PISA results and their comparative value for education systems wishing to improve or maintain their effectiveness. However, it’s less clear that school systems have embraced the implications of achieving the target competencies by, for example, making the necessary changes to teacher training programmes.Downloads
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