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Chris Brandt; Carla Evans; Chris Domaleski – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
Students need far more than traditional academic skills to succeed in school, work and civic life. Decades of discussion about the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors that facilitate success in the information age have produced consensus that students should learn 21st century competencies. However, many schools struggle to meaningfully…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Competence, Integrated Curriculum, Instructional Development
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Perez, Alexandra Lane; Evans, Carla – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) innovative assessment system uses student scores from classroom performance assessments as well as other classroom tests for school accountability purposes. One concern is that not having annual state testing may incentivize schools and teachers away from teaching the breadth of…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Innovation
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
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
Marion, Scott F.; Vander Els, Jonathan; Leather, Paul – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
In New Hampshire, a new performance assessment system focuses on reciprocal accountability and shared leadership among teachers and leaders at the school, district, and state levels. This concept of reciprocal accountability, developed by school improvement expert Richard Elmore, is at the core of New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership
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
Silva, Elena; White, Taylor; Toch, Thomas – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to create a pension system for the nation's college professors. The introduction of this pension system proved an ingenious educational reform. At the time, American higher education was a largely ill-defined…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Competence
Sturgis, Chris – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2014
This paper is part of a series investigating the implementation of competency education. The purpose of the paper is to explore how districts and schools can redesign grading systems to best help students to excel in academics and to gain the skills that are needed to be successful in college, the community, and the workplace. In order to make the…
Descriptors: Grading, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
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Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – English Journal, 1982
Explores materials in the ERIC system that discuss all sides of the minimum competency issue. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods
Schmidt, Wallace V. – 1982
Competency-based education can be a viable tool for demonstrating accountability in speech communication instruction. The objectives of speech communication instruction tend to be based more upon the content than upon the everyday communication needs of the students. Rather than continue the approach of basing instruction on assumptions of what…
Descriptors: Accountability, Communication Research, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
The bibliographies cited give numerous references in each of nine areas: criterion-referenced tests, educational accountability, evaluation criteria, evaluation methods, evaluation techniques, functional literacy/illiteracy, performance criteria, performance specifications, and program effectiveness. References were compiled from an exhaustive…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Hoachlander, E. Gareth – 1991
This paper provides guidelines in a question-and-answer format for developing systems of performance standards and accountability for vocational education. The seven questions answered in the guide are the following: What are performance measures and standards? What types of performance measures and standards should be developed? How many measures…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education
Woditsch, Gary A. – 1977
A model of competency-based general education is set forth in this paper. It aspires to (1) set forth target outcomes for the general education component of a baccalaureate degree and assert a curricular strategy for their achievement; (2) justify the selection of those outcomes and curricular strategies in terms of what is known about the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Adams, Betty – New Era, 1979
Discusses a proposal to make compulsory education accountable in terms of a nationally accredited system of statements of expected attainments at age 16. Suggest establishment of teams to evaluate students as to their adherence to these standards. Journal availability: see SO 507 081. (KC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Community Cooperation, Competency Based Education
Dittmer, Allan E. – 1978
The minimum competency movement's rationale can be reduced to four problem-laden propositions: the state through its schools owes every child an education; a high school graduate should be at least minimally competent; schools should be held accountable for seeing to it that every child meets this standard; and to assure this, every child must be…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
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