The Evaluation of Cross-Curricular Competencies

The evaluation of competencies—whether cross-curricular or subject-specific—serves essentially to facilitate the regulation of teaching and learning activities and to assess students’ learning. The nature of cross-curricular competencies and the fact that they concern different aspects of cognitive, social and affective development make it necessary to use a variety of approaches in evaluating them. The observation of students’ behaviours, procedures or attitudes during learning situations that call for the competencies is one possible approach, as is student self-evaluation. From this perspective, it is important to avoid establishing an exclusive one-to-one relationship between a specific subject and the development—and hence the evaluation—of a specific cross-curricular competency.