Competency-Based Education

Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards

[…] measures of assessment to be both valid (correctly measuring what you want to measure) and accurate (being consistent in what you measure). Standards-based While standards-based is not competency-based, it is certainly related and worth explaining. The main difference lies in the granularity of a standard (very specific) compared to the more broad skill applications […]

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New Pathways

The Learner-Centered Competency-Based Learning Management System

[…] well-aligned to the standards-based assessment systems, allow organized curriculum design and facilitate asynchronous learning. Yet, most legacy solutions still are not able to support a learner-centered and competency-based system needed to document the unbundled and credentialed pathways that will best serve all learners. Through our partner work with XQ Institute, we identified core criteria […]

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Personalized Learning

A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL

It’s hard to support and manage project-based learning in a competency-based environment. In this post, Erik Day shares a look at a platform designed to help.

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Competency-Based Education

Surviving the Extremes at the WPS Summit

Armed with swag and ready to learn all about competency-based systems, attendees from across the country poured into the Marriott Westminster for the Westminster Public Schools (WPS) Summit. The room buzzed with anticipation. The WPS Summit is a three-day conference focused on competency-based education. Located in Denver and in its third year, the summit […]

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Future of Learning

Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters

By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.

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Competency-Based Education

Why 20 Missouri School Districts Are Seeking New ‘Innovation Waivers’ to Rethink the Way They Test Students

[…] “The group with our very first innovation waiver request — the Success-Ready Students Network — kind of grew out of a (state) work group that was looking at competency-based education.” While 20 school districts in the Success-Ready Students Network have agreed to launch new assessments if approved, other schools will join in the future, said […]

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EdTech

Smart List: Learning Platforms

[…] focused, others are more focused on specific learning trajectories. What has emerged over the last four years are more legacy platforms attempting to adopt project-based, personalize, or competency-based features and emerging platforms beginning with these next-generation features. The pandemic only accelerated the development and adoption of personalized LMS platforms that better meet the needs […]

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Competency-Based Education

From Classroom to Career: Mastering Real-World Competencies through Alternative Learning

[…] purposeful exit interview presents students with an opportunity to uniquely express their learning progress to mentors, fostering valuable feedback and guidance for what lies ahead. Strategy 2: Competency-Based Learning Shifting to competency-based learning is another approach that prioritizes the mastery of skills over the completion of predetermined coursework. For example, educators can utilize levels […]

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