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Hendrick Cho – Region 19 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Republic of the Marshall Islands Public School System, requested information about alternative assessment evaluation, including detail on performance and competency-based assessment. In response, this high-level scan from the Region 19 Comprehensive Center identifies example tools and measures along with key resources and references. Also…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Competency Based Education, State Policy
Marcotte, Kayla M.; Gruppen, Larry D. – Education Sciences, 2022
Integrative learning and competency-based education are both evolving as major themes in education. Integrative learning emphasizes that knowledge from different domains and contexts are brought together to enhance the learner's experience. The emphasis on integrated learning has sparked the development of integrative curriculum, which…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Integrated Curriculum, Medical Education
Okinda, Robert; Waters, Melinda; Petterd, Robin; Smith, Clint – Commonwealth of Learning, 2023
This report -- commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) -- provides an overview of research into good practice in blended learning in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and the competencies teachers need to teach in digital learning environments. It provides background for the development of digital competency…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Blended Learning, Teacher Competencies, Educational Technology
Clements, Kyle; West, Richard E.; Hunsaker, Enoch – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This article is intended as a practical resource to help interested organizations design and implement an open badging system. Open badges are a type of open credential designed to recognize a variety of skills, knowledge, and experiences, both inside and outside of traditional educational settings. While growing in popularity, common questions…
Descriptors: Credentials, Recognition (Achievement), Program Implementation, Electronic Publishing
Gyll, Sean P. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Simulated testing has become more prevalent in higher education, especially as competency-based institutions begin to incorporate micro-credentials and skills certificates into their curriculum. Competency-based assessment falls outside traditional norm-based testing practices used in K-12 education, and is largely focused on criterion referenced…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Knowledge Level, Measurement
Kyle Clements; Sam Jackson; Richard E West – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This case explores the creation of an open badge student-employee training program. Utilizing competency-based learning, we created nearly 40 digital credentials for technical skills related to various software products. We specifically share the decisions we made related to the process of defining competencies, formatting badge criteria, and…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Information Storage, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Linda Dale Bloomberg – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2024
Student success is increasingly tied to equity-minded policies and practices that ameliorate postsecondary achievement gaps. Educational disruptions over the past few years continue to reshape the education landscape and have continued to illuminate racial and socioeconomic inequities at higher education institutions, deepening the digital divide…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Equal Education, Student Centered Curriculum, Measures (Individuals)
Henderson, Nathan; Kumaran, Vikram; Min, Wookhee; Mott, Bradford; Wu, Ziwei; Boulden, Danielle; Lord, Trudi; Reichsman, Frieda; Dorsey, Chad; Wiebe, Eric; Lester, James – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
In recent years, game-based learning has shown significant promise for creating engaging and effective learning experiences. Developing models that can predict whether students will struggle with mastering certain concepts could guide adaptive support to assist students with mastering those concepts. Game-based learning environments offer…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Game Based Learning, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Martin, Jonathan E. – Eye on Education, 2019
Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today's best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. With more and more school leaders turning to alternate, competency-based approaches for learning, crediting and transcripts can follow suit by drawing on badging, micro-crediting, digital portfolios of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Academic Records, High School Students, Recognition (Achievement)
Aurora Institute, 2022
Informed by the expertise and wisdom of thousands in its community, the Aurora Institute's 2022 federal policy priorities are a set of nine recommendations designed to ensure education systems move from the current state to future-focused systems capable of preparing all learners with building the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve lifelong…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Region 12 Comprehensive Center, 2021
The Region 12 Comprehensive Center supports the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) with implementation and scaling of the Kansans Can Redesign Initiative. Schools engaged in redesign are guided by four core principles--personalized learning, student success skills, family/business/community partnerships, and real-world application--to…
Descriptors: School Districts, State Standards, Individualized Instruction, Educational Improvement
Patrick, S.; Worthen, M.; Frost, D. – iNACOL, 2017
This issue brief discusses opportunities for states under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to redesign systems of assessments to support student-centered learning. In addition, this brief introduces "balanced systems of assessments" and "assessment literacy" as two key concepts required for long-term sustainable systems…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Policy
Tate, Pamela; Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2015
Competency-based education (CBE) is the hot new thing in higher education. While forms of CBE have been around since the 1970s, there has been a surge of interest in CBE, with more than 600 postsecondary institutions now reporting that they are either offering competency-based degree programs or are planning to do so. Similarly, institutional…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Prior Learning, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Patrick, Susan; Chambers, Alexis – Aurora Institute, 2020
As school districts deliberate over reopening schools with the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, we've developed this report with strategic guidance on how to harness our current opportunity to transform K-12 education. "Education Policy Issues for the COVID-19 Era: Policy Actions and Responses to Leverage the Moment for Future Readiness"…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bonner, Matthew W. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
According to accreditation and professional bodies, evaluation and grading are a high priority in counselor education. Specifications grading, an evaluative tool, can be used to increase grading rigor. This article describes the components of specifications grading and applies the framework of specifications grading to a counseling theories course.
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Grading, Student Evaluation, Difficulty Level