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 ...

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 ...

The push for degree completion has taken the national spotlight easily in recent years. But surprisingly, questions about the quality and consistency of those degrees have not been quite so prevalent.

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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/15cfbc/competencybased_a) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science and health, and part of RELX, has acquired Authess, the Boston-based developer 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 ...

The increasing demand for CBSE to transition from traditional score-based assessments to competency-based evaluations is underscored by key findings from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), ...

The CBSE will conduct competency-based assessments in Classes V and VIII in all its affiliated schools next year, the chairman of the board said on Friday. The assessments were conducted in around ...