A Fundamental Flaw in Competency Learning. By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway; 07/13/15; The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

Is 2019 the year that competency ... though nobody had yet solved one of the central problems with mastery learning. ... mastery learning made a comeback with the rise of Outcome Based Education.

With competency-based education, ... The reverse happens too, with policymakers seeing low graduation rates or other problems that could be addressed by policy changes that promote a new model.

State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith said the so-called Competency-Based Learning pilot program has let some districts move away from relying ... have had students solve real world problems.

Competency-based education seeks to flip the structure of traditional education, where seat-time is held constant but learning is variable. In a competency-based approach, the path towards (and time ...

Like Sarah Lawrence, competency-based programs that neglect the traditional credit hour are centered on solving the same problem of demonstrating student learning in order to provide a path to the ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx ...

Background: Systematic reviews on the effects of problem-based learning have been limited to knowledge competency either during medical school or postgraduate training. We conducted a systematic ...

Competency-based education is Taymore’s way of injecting more self-directed learning, communication and problem-solving into Melrose classrooms. And it also forces teachers to respond to individual ...

For example, the University of Michigan’s first competency-based degree is a master’s of health professions education. And the University of Texas System began with a bachelor’s in biomedical science.