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Sara Costa; Laura Soledad Norton; Sabine Pirchio – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Grades are the universal tool for measuring students' performance at school. However, other competency-based evaluation methods have shown to have a stronger impact on the learning quality. We investigated how different methods are collectively represented and discursively constructed among students at an Italian high school class. Thematic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Competency Based Education
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Bernard T. Drumm; Ronan Bree; Caoimhin S. Griffin; Niall O’Leary – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Laboratory practicals in life science subjects are traditionally assessed by written reports that reflect disciplinary norms for documenting experimental activities. However, the exclusive application of this assessment has the potential to engage only a narrow range of competencies. In this study, we explored how multiple modes of laboratory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences, Science Laboratories
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Margolin, Jonathan; Feygin, Amy R.; Sejdijaj, Agnesa – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
This report presents an approach to evaluating networked improvement communities (NICs) and describes the tools used to apply the approach to a formative evaluation of the Minnesota Alternative Learning Center Networked Improvement Community (Minnesota ALC NIC). In fall 2019 leaders at the Minnesota Department of Education requested support from…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Communities of Practice, Formative Evaluation, Nontraditional Education
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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
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Romeo, Marina; Yepes-Baldó, Montserrat; González, Vicenta; Burset, Silvia; Martín, Carolina; Bosch, Emma – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
The assessment process in higher education considers four aspects: assessment agents, procedure, content, and scoring. In this study, we delve into the who. We analyze the role of transversal competence assessment agents in the framework of professional internships in university master's degree programs, comparing the suitability of their…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Higher Education, Evaluators, Masters Programs
Bulgakov Cooke, Dina; Paeplow, Colleen; Carter, James; Belton, Timothy R. – Wake County Public School System, 2022
This report focuses on a competency-based grading initiative at Carroll Middle School. The initiative was implemented from 2018-19 to 2020-21 to address the lack of alignment between report card grades and End-of-Grade (EOG) test results and was designed to ensure consistent delivery of standards-based instruction, formative assessment, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Implementation
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Bolzani, Daniela; Luppi, Elena – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: While the number of entrepreneurship education programmes offered around the world is on the rise, research into the assessment of entrepreneurship education programmes is still lacking. The purpose of this paper is to take the stance that entrepreneurship education has to focus on a set of transversal competences aimed at teaching…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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Pérez, Jorge; Vizcarro, Carmen; García, Javier; Bermúdez, Aurelio; Cobos, Ruth – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
In the context of higher education, a competence may be understood as the combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a professional area. The aim of the work reported here was to design a set of procedures to assess a transferable competence, i.e., problem solving, that…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computer Science Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Competency Based Education
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Bezanilla, María José; Arranz, Sonia; Rayón, Alex; Rubio, Isabel; Menchaca, Iratxe; Guenaga, Mariluz; Aguilar, Eduardo – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2014
This paper focuses on the design of a serious game for the teaching and assessment of generic competences, placing particular emphasis on the competences assessment aspect. Taking into account important aspects of competence assessment such as context, feedback and transparency, among other aspects, and using the University of Deusto's Generic…
Descriptors: Minimum Competency Testing, Educational Games, Problem Solving, Entrepreneurship
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Ion, Georgeta; Cano, Elena; Cabrera, Nati – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
This article examines an innovation in teaching-learning and assessment processes through the use of a platform called the Competency Assessment Tool (CAT). It allows for the tracking of student blogs with the objective of improving self-reflective processes and providing feedback. The experiment was carried out in six universities in Catalonia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Innovation
Ananiadou, Katerina; Claro, Magdalean – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This paper discusses issues related to the teaching and assessment of 21st century skills and competencies in OECD countries drawing on the findings of a questionnaire study and other relevant background material such as white papers or curriculum documents. Although all OECD countries were invited to participate in the questionnaire survey,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, International Education
Minor, Kent J.; Muthig, William J. – 1997
The grade-level instruments that comprise this social studies component of the model competency-based education (CBE) assessment package for Ohio have been constructed to assist teachers in assessing student attainment of competencies with the best assessments possible. The package notes that the individual district may use these instruments as…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Competency Based Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Garzino, Salvatore J. – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1979
The desirability of a comprehensive assessment of social welfare students is suggested. The multidimensional system of grading is described as a flexible approach to better student evaluation, which complements performance-based curriculum designs. The synergistic effects of a set of objective assignments in a social work research course is…
Descriptors: College Students, Competency Based Education, Courses, Curriculum Design
Gilson, Joan T. – 1989
Because of consistent faculty involvement from its earliest stages, the writing assessment program at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) represents a competent, fair, and useful procedure for the large-scale testing and evaluation of student writing. UMKC's assessment curriculum builds on the existing sequence of three composition…
Descriptors: College English, Competency Based Education, English Curriculum, English Departments
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of Special Education. – 1974
This document is an evaluation design for the University of Minnesota's Special Education Administration Training Program (SEATP), a competency-based education program for the continuing education of professional, special education administrators. The document contains a description of the evaluation design and evaluation sequence, the evaluation…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Administration
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