The speeches related to educative competence are often oriented to promote and impulse the student to an integral
development as a process that goes beyond transmitting knowledge and skills. For this reason, the need to fulfill the
application of knowledge, skills and attitudes which are expressed through the Know, the Know-How and the
Knowing Self is pointed out (Delors, 1996). Higher technological education under the competency-based model must conform to the constant changes taking
place in today's world. It pretends to be an integral approach, which seeks to bond the educative sector with the
productive one to form competent professionals who contribute to the technological development.
In Polytechnic Universities (UUPP), classes are taught with this model of competency-based education. As a
consequence, needs and challenges have been observed in the daily development of the teaching and learning
process that requires research in order to improve them. The high scholar failure rate is one of the challenges found
in the subjects of the first semester of engineering particularly in the subject of Chemistry.