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Holding Courses Accountable for Competencies Central to the Degree
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Schneider, Carol Geary – Liberal Education, 2013
The author of this article questions what has been gained from Berrett's exploration of the connections between competency development and individual required courses. She concludes from this analysis that students' competency development is a responsibility that cuts across many courses and many levels of expected student proficiency. To put it…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Minimum Competencies, Microeconomics
Engaged Learning: Enabling Self-Authorship and Effective Practice
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Hodge, David C.; Baxter Magolda, Marcia B.; Haynes, Carolyn A. – Liberal Education, 2009
Evidence abounds that, in recent decades, students have typically entered college relying on perspectives they have uncritically accepted from others and are not sufficiently challenged and supported to transition to internal authority during college. Students who have experienced significant challenge, particularly as a result of marginalization,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Student Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Practices
Implementation Strategies for Creating an Environment of Achievement.
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Tatum, Beverly Daniel; Calhoun, W. Rochelle; Brown, Scott C.; Ayvazian, Andrea – Liberal Education, 2000
Convinced of the educational benefits of campus diversity, Mt. Holyoke College (Massachusetts) developed policies and practices to foster the academic and social skills needed for success in a diverse society. The theory of affirming identity, building community, and cultivating leadership is explained and applied to actual situations on the…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Ethnicity