Continuous Competency-Based Assessment: Impact of Regular Student Involvement on their Performances and Success

Using competency-based assessment (CBA) approaches to evaluate students is gaining in popularity. The work presented in this paper relies on a pragmatic CBA approach integrating the evaluation in the learning process. A specifically designed web-based platform, named TLCA, is used to support the approach. This latter mainly aims at fostering students to be regularly evaluated while allowing the real time monitoring of learners' progress for both students and their teachers.This research full paper analyses the impact of a regular involvement from learners on their success in courses following the proposed CBA approach. The analyses have been conducted on teaching units from several institutions and taught by different teams of teachers. The presented results are supported by qualitative data obtained from students surveys and quantitative data collected by the TLCA platform on the evaluations. These latter mainly consist of competencies acquisition rhythm all over the year. All the collected data tend to show that the proposed approach does have some positive impact on students' involvement, leading to better performances and success rates.To conclude, this paper proposes possible ways to improve students' involvement in their learning, based on observations extracted from several experiments with the proposed CBA approach. These improvements do have a direct impact on students' success. Possible improvements to the pedagogical device and the TLCA platform, both for teachers and students, will be considered in future work.