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This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

Southern New Hampshire University's competency-based program, College for America, is opening up new options for the assessment of student learning. It's also turning the notion of the traditional ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

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 ...

Two major players in K–12 education launched a joint effort last month to develop new assessments that could help shift schools’ focus away from traditional “seat time” requirements and toward more ...

Implementing entrustable professional activities into assessment can help judge students’ readiness to work independently.

Precision Skills Assessments give revenue teams an objective picture of how sellers perform in key moments that affect buying decisions. Competency-Based Skills Training then turns those insights into ...