In time, it may become clear to universities and students that candidates without additional data provided by competency-based assessments will never make it through the filter to be reviewed by a ...

Oral competency is essential to the language classroom. Most language teachers focus on vocabulary building, the dreaded conjugation charts, and the false realities often found in school texts.

Sean Ryan, President of McGraw Hill School Group, breaks down the elements of Competency-Based Education (CBE) in education and how its implementation can transform teaching and learning. CBE ...

Competency-based programs allow students to progress according to their demonstrated mastery of subject matter instead of the time they spend in a course.

“Thank God for New Hampshire.” So said Terry Holliday, commissioner of education in Kentucky, this week at a summit meeting sponsored by the Partnership for 21 st Century Learning. He was ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Competency-based education programs grant credentials based on what a student knows.

Carnegie Foundation and ETS launch a major initiative to develop competency-based assessments, which could change how high school students show college and workforce readiness. The Carnegie Foundation ...

The findings our study suggest that Competency-based Education programs may be financially more attainable for students from a lower socio-economic background, thus opening the door for more ...

For the increasing number of students who seek value and industry-relevant skill sets, this model will prove awfully enticing.

The Education Department will loosen financial-aid rules for 40-plus colleges as they experiment with competency-based education and prior learning assessment.

Flexible competency-based learning modules were designed to change elementary teacher trainees' knowledge-skills in and attitudes toward inquiry teaching. The effectiveness of the modules was compared ...