Competency-based education is gaining steam, but questions remain about which forms the U.S. Department of Education will back. Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would the testing experience be like if schools allowed students to show what they know whenever they’re ready, in a variety of ways that suit them, and in ways that are instructionally useful?

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

Your school, program, or college has probably seen improvement in learner access to technology in the last few years (although it may still be an EdTech mess of devices and apps). But you may still be ...

Businesses use several tools to assess the competency of their workers. Such instruments measure the ability to perform the job and ancillary skills such as spatial reasoning. Moreover, employers have ...