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Advantages of the SBA

The SBA:

1. provides an opportunity to individualize a part of the curriculum, thus making them
adaptive to the abilities, interests, background and needs of the students;

2. provides optional means for different students to achieve the same goals as well as
to provide the opportunity for different students in different schools and
communities to pursue their goals to differing degrees of attainment;

3. facilitates feedback to the student at various stages of the experience. This helps
to build the self-confidence of students as they proceed with their studies;

4. facilitates the development of the critical skills and abilities emphasized by the
subject and enhances the validity of the examination on which candidate
performance is reported;

5. makes a significant and unique contribution to both the development of relevant
skills and the assessing and rewarding of students for the development of those
skills;

6. caters to multiple intelligences as various teaching and learning strategies are
utilized;

7. provides students with skills needed to function in everyday life; and,

8. provides multiple opportunities and multiple ways to develop and demonstrate
knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Disadvantages of the SBA

The SBA may present some challenges for students and teachers such as:

1. feeling of constantly being assessed;

2. feeling that every error counts;

3. unavailability of required resources; and,

4. being more time consuming – requires more preparation and planning.

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