Competency Based Learning Assessment

The Re-Emergence of Competency-Based Education: What It Might Look Like and Why It’s Needed in Today’s Classrooms

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 ...

Inside Higher Ed

2 Architects of Traditional Assessment Embrace Competency

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

Education Week

Grading for Growth Through Competency-Based Education

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Education Week

Competency-Based Education Is Working

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Assam steps up NEP reforms with training on competency-based assessment

NCERT, trained 100 teachers in Guwahati to create competency-based question banks, advancing NEP 2020 reforms.

Al Bawaba

WCM-Q hosts faculty development workshop on competency-based assessment

The Division of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) recently held a faculty ...

Saint Louis University

Backward Design in Competency-Based Medical Education

Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...

Business Wire

University of Phoenix Will Be One of the Few Higher Education Institutions in the U.S. Offering Direct Assessment Competency-Based Education Programs

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix announces the planned August 1, 2022, launch of two direct assessment competency-based education (CBE-Direct Assessment) programs at the graduate and ...