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Julia Ransom; Kevin Burgess; Mark Duffy – Research for Action, 2024
This case study explores the implementation of personalized learning at an elementary school in Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District 35. The study, conducted by Research for Action and funded by KnowledgeWorks, sheds light on the shift towards personalized, competency-based learning practices within the district. Through qualitative sources…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Competency Based Education, Elementary Education, Program Implementation
Redding, Sam – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2014
Personal competencies--cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, and social/emotional--are applied by students in learning (mastery of knowledge and skills). These competencies are both acquired through learning and applied in the learning process. Personalized learning--a promising approach to education made practical by advances in…
Descriptors: Competence, Mastery Learning, Individualized Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction
Bugher, Wilmer K., Ed.; Tippy, Carol E., Ed. – 1978
This manual, part of a long-range planning model concerning goal formulations, is a revision and update of an earlier work on writing educational performance objectives (ED 073 529). It modifies and extends the former manual to provide the total system description necessary for curriculum development as well as curriculum implementation. The first…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Smith, Ronald M.; Blum, Robert E. – 1981
Presented in the guise of a hypothetical school board meeting, this information is intended to summarize the elements of competency based education (CBE) in a way that is easy to read and will increase understanding of its potential for improving education. It is aimed at state departments of education, school districts, and schools. Organized as…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum, Educational Objectives

Nash, Paul – Theory into Practice, 1979
Three dimensions of humanistic education are used to examine the idea of educational accountability: the systemic-organizational, the interpersonal, and the personal. Implications of the personal dimension of accountability are presented. (JMF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria

Roueche, John E.; And Others – 1976
Competency-based instruction provides the mechanism necessary to implement the democratic and humanitarian philosophies espoused by community colleges. This document discusses the need for competency-based instruction, identifies instructional methods, and provides insights into the curricular ends of this type of instruction. An instructional…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Knaak, William C. – 1977
A review of the literature base on competency-based education (CBE) as it relates to vocational education (competency-based vocational education or CBVE) is presented in this information analysis paper. The following topics are discussed: differences between traditional and competency-based education; growth and breadth of CBVE (including…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Ray, Rossi Jo – 1977
Instructional management systems for use in monitoring student achievements in specified skill areas and the use of these data for compensatory education program evaluation are a relatively new phenomenon in the field of education. The replication of an instructional management system is reviewed in three settings: (1) a consortia of four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Spillman, Robert E.; Bruce, Herbert, Jr. – American Vocational Journal, 1976
A report on a consortium which is pooling the efforts of 13 states to produce and field-test catalogs of performance objectives, criterion referenced measures, and performance guides for vocational learners. Acknowledgment is made to the training services, materials, and processes made available by the military. (Editor/HD)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives
Hanson, Helen B.; Gavzy, Rita – 1974
The Dale Avenue Early Childhood Education Project was developed in the Dale Avenue School in Paterson, New Jersey through funding from the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The Project was validated in 1973 by the standards and guidelines of the U.S. Office of Education as innovative, successful, cost effective, and exportable. As a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Objectives
Weatherman, Richard; Dobbert, Daniel – 1975
This paper describes a model of field-centered competency-based education utilizing multidisciplinary methodology and individualized instruction. Although the model was developed as part of an administrative preparation program for special education administrators, it is a general model with potential for wider application. The model uses a…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Bibliographies, Competency Based Education, Educational Anthropology
Steiner, Florence – 1975
This book, written by and for a foreign language teacher, is intended as an informative and practical guide to the use of performance objectives in the foreign language classroom. A rationale for performance objectives is presented, followed by a discussion of purposes, resources, and activities involved. Attention is given to the selection of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Cross, K. Patricia – 1978
If colleges were to accept the mission of helping each student to learn as much and as well as possible, the organization of education would change. In that the three fundamental practices of education--classes, semesters, and grades--are counterproductive to the goal of maximizing student learning and exist only to meet administrative and fiscal…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Role, Community Colleges
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1976
One of 15 core modules in a 22-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists (VECS), this guide is intended for use by both instructor and student in a variety of education environments, including independent study, team teaching, seminars, and workshops, as well as in more conventional classroom settings. The guide…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Spady, William G. – 1984
This paper presents ideas relating to curriculum organization from the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development publication, "Excellence in Our Schools: Making It Happen," which attempted to synthesize nine reports written in response to the National Commission on Excellence in Education report, "A Nation at…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement