Spanish term
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formación de las competencias
La valoración de los conocimientos desde la perspectiva de una educación superior que se orienta a la formación de las competencias del alumnado;
This is an academic text about the use of student portfolios in higher education. I currently have:
Assessment of knowledge from the perspective of higher education oriented towards building the student body's competencies;
and I would like an opinion on it and/or a suggestion of how it could be better put. Thanks :D
Proposed translations
"skills-based"
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competence building
Systems of innovation and competence building accross diversity
skills training
formación -> training
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the developement of student competence.
We have worked hard in the developement of student competence.
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development of [student] competencies
"educación basada en las competencias" and "competency-based education" (CBE)
to see if maybe *competencies" (rather than "skills") might be the term called for here.
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shaping competencies
I suggest " shaping students' competencies"
I opt for
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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2008-12-04 02:34:51 GMT)
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Educational systems in many countries set clearly golbal aims and objectives to be targeted in a foreign language course, namely, the consolidation, the shaping and the improvement of the linguistic communication competencies. ( the term competency isn't limited to the field of language teaching/learning,though)
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