e competence-based approach to education has been found to be eective for teaching. Introduced in Italian secondary schools in 2010 by the Ministry for Education, it has hardly had a real adoption. e paper illustrates the rst part of a study which investigates how education in Italian secondary schools could be made more competence-based. e goal is to nd eective ways to support the adoption of the competence-based approach in the Italian secondary schools. e study focuses on the computer science teachers, who oen use the student projects. e paper describes the portion of the study which investigates if the project-based learning method helps to inductively embrace the competence-based approach. We interviewed a sample of computer science teachers, in order to understand how well they know the competence-based approach. en we designed and realized an action-research course for teachers, in order to observe them implementing the project-based learning method. e preliminary results conrm a weak commitment of the teachers to the competence-based approach and suggest that the project-based learning method can drive towards the competence-based approach, provided the projects are carefully designed and subsequently managed. © 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
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