The competence based curriculum (CBC) proves itself as a reliable perspective on curriculum development that
must be followed in the actual context of education and instruction. It brings a major challenge of the way teachers
and students must view the curriculum and the learning process. It became clear that the fundamental changes in the
finalities of educational systems worldwide brought by the CBS paradigm, determines a new vision of evaluation and
on the designing of evaluation tools.
The evaluation of competences determines a new approach of teaching and learning that capitalize the concept of
competence as students capacity to mobilize in an integrated manner, all the resources they have learn in school
settings or outside the school in order to solve problematic situations. The shift from input to output in curriculum
development and in educational practices, from learning disciplinary knowledge to literacy and qualitative assessment
raises the standards and the exigencies toward education and instruction.
This way of seeing curriculum and learning is creating the context for capitalizing the complex learning situation
(CLS) as a possible solution for evaluation of competences. Correlating structured and functional learning in complex,
real life situations allows competence development and evaluation. CLS is proving itself to be a representative method
for the new curricular paradigm with major effects on the possibilities to develop and evaluate the complex students’
competences. It becomes necessary the developing the instruments of projecting complex learning situations to the
level of all types of contents and instruction forms of organization, both from the point of view of learning
opportunities and of providing the progression of learning acquisitions from one level of instruction to another.