An Evaluation of the Project Workshop within the Competency Based Approach: The Case of Second Year Secondary School Learners

Abstract

The present dissertation aims at studying the project work evaluation within the Competency Based Approach (CBA) at the El Oued Djilali Secondary School in Tlemcen. The main issue of this study is to know whether learning activity is undertaken both by teachers and pupils appropriately. To see if teacher instructions about the project and pupils practices during the realization of the project help promote the social learning. In order to investigate this matter, the researcher hypothesised that many teachers at the level of secondary school might consider that the project is just a time consuming activity and an additional burden that does not bring any benefit to their pupils and thus might not give it too much importance, as well as the teachers’ attitude towards the project might be negative, we expect that they do not use the adequate techniques to tackle this learning activity nor are their learners well guided to handle it in the way it may boost their learning.To examine these hypotheses, questionnaires were given to 57 pupils, and questionnaires were given to six English teachers to know their attitudes towards project work evaluation. After analysing the data collected quantitatively, the results indicated that our research hypotheses were partially confirmed. The first one confirms that majority of teachers are aware about the project work and consider that project work is a practical and beneficial tool of learning. Furthermore, the second hypotheses, results unveil that not all teachers’ attitude toward the Project is negative and they do not use the adequate technique to tackle this learning activity nor are their learners well guided to handle it in the way it may boost their learning.