When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Education will allow at least 40 colleges to experiment with competency-based education and prior learning assessment, granting them a waiver from certain rules ...

However, these types of issues aren’t particularly surprising nor uncommon in today’s education. In summary, compared to the traditional binge-and-purge approach, competency-based education delivers ...

Competency Based Education (or Proficiency Based Learning, or Outcome Based Education, or Mastery Learning, or whatever new name appears next week) is the up-and-coming flavor of the week in education ...

We read Steven Ward’s Feb. 1 critique of competency-based education-- “Let Them Eat Cake (Competently)” -- with some sense of weary bemusement. Where to start? Let’s start with a simple fact: CBE ...

The ubiquity of technology has increased the demand for people who are both interested in pursuing work in STEM fields and have the knowledge and competencies to be successful in them. Research on ...

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