“…In fact, the concept of 'competence', the core of the CBA, is defined in the Algerian official documents as "a known how-to-act process which integrates a set of capacities, skills, and knowledge mobilized to face problem-situations" (Ameziane, 2005:12). Hence, these have adopted the same definition of the term competence provided by Roegiers (2000) and Tardif (2003), in which the terms integration, mobilisation and problem situations are highlighted. So, instead of transmitting knowledge directly to passive learners, the latter are placed in front of problem situations to reflect on by mobilising a set of resources, consisting of knowledge, skills and attitudes, to solve the problem.…”