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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, a glaring mismatch persists. While curriculum and pedagogy have shifted toward competencies and real-world application of skills, but assessment remains stuck in the past. Unit tests and ...

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

The debate highlights a growing ideological divide between conservatives who have advocated for expanding nontraditional educational approaches demonstrated by charter and private schools, and ...