"...competency...focuses on what students should be able to do after successfully completing a course instead of listing things they should have learned."
I believe that listing things the students have learned is legitimate during delivering the instruction as form of formative assessment. But it should not be the end goal of the standard, chapter, unit, or the course. The goal; the objective must be the competency and competency is what the students will be able to do after successfully completing the standard, chapter, unit or the course. As an example I will give two competency oriented assessments: standard specific and unit specific assessment.
The Standards are:
M8A1. Students will use algebra to represent, analyze and solve problems.
a. Represent a given situation using algebraic expressions or equations in one variable
c. Solve algebraic equations in one variable, including equations involving absolute values
To teach to the standards, students will learn how to solve equations: Two-Step Equations, Multi-Step Equations and Solving equations with variables on both sides. Students must demonstrate their knowledge of these standards (competency) by solving the following three problems.
After completing the entire chapter on Equations and Inequalities, students will complete a project shown below.
Taken from holt online learning: http://my.hrw.com/hrw
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