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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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Consolata Cosmas Mushi; Noel Mark Makwinya; Vituce Kalungwizi – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2025
Tanzania introduced Competence-Based Assessment in the early 2000s alongside its Competence-Based Curriculum as an innovative approach to evaluate students' learning. This study, informed by the Concern-Based Adoption Model, investigated secondary school teachers' concerns on adopting this assessment approach. The Stage of Concern Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Student Evaluation
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Daniele Morselli – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: This article focuses on the assessment of entrepreneurship competence by selected vocational teachers in Italy. The exploratory research question addresses the extent to which entrepreneurship assessments are competence based, and the research seeks to identify fully fledged assessment programmes with both a formative and summative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Competence, Vocational Education
Jodi Lynn Brents – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States is currently facing a shortage of mental-health providers that affects 160 million Americans. The need to empower the health system with appropriately knowledgeable, skilled, and diversely aware people mental-health practitioners is a critical necessity for current and future healthcare needs. This study aims to validate the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Evaluation, Clinical Experience
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Umi Laili Yuhana; Eko Mulyanto Yuniarno; Wenny Rahayu; Eric Pardede – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In an online learning environment, it is important to establish a suitable assessment approach that can be adapted on the fly to accommodate the varying learning paces of students. At the same time, it is essential that assessment criteria remain compliant with the expected learning outcomes of the relevant education standard which predominantly…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Electronic Learning, Elementary School Students, Student Evaluation
Kimberly D. Pearce – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Competency-based education that uses direct assessment in lieu of credit or clock hours as the measure of student learning is a relatively recent innovation in American higher education. Common features of these innovative programs include competency-based curriculum, authentic assessment, mastery learning, student self-pacing, federal financial…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Role Conflict, Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment
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Claudia Lizette Garay-Rondero; Alvaro Castillo-Paz; Carlos Gijón-Rivera; Gerardo Domínguez-Ramírez; Conrado Rosales-Torres; Alberto Oliart-Ros – Cogent Education, 2024
Higher Education faces challenges in providing learning experiences and cultivating competencies in our modern environment. Academic discourse centres on tutoring automation, a complicated educational dilemma in the age of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Establishing a structured technique for real competency…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Moonen-van Loon, Joyce M. W.; Govaerts, Marjan; Donkers, Jeroen; van Rosmalen, Peter – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2022
Self-directed learning is generally considered a key competence in higher education. To enable self-directed learning, assessment practices increasingly embrace assessment for learning rather than the assessment of learning, shifting the focus from grades and scores to provision of rich, narrative, and personalized feedback. Students are expected…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Feedback (Response), Independent Study
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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
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Wilton, Shauna; Méthot, Mélanie – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This article analyzes data from a survey on faculty perceptions of a newly instituted assessment process at a small liberal arts campus in Canada. The survey results are compared with an analysis of the reports submitted to the assessment committee over a four-year period in order to determine whether a culture of assessment centred on students'…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, School Culture, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Seery, Niall; Buckley, Jeffrey; Delahunty, Thomas; Canty, Donal – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Educational assessment has profound effects on the nature and depth of learning that students engage in. Typically there are two core types discussed within the pertinent literature; criterion and norm referenced assessment. However another form, ipsative assessment, refers to the comparison between current and previous performance within a course…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Competency Based Education, Academic Ability
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Bibila, Stavroula – Curriculum Journal, 2020
Throughout the past 40 years, a number of terms have been used in the UK to refer to competency-based pedagogies that focus on preparing students for everyday 'life' and employment. The evolution of these generic forms of knowledge in official curricula has been accompanied by harsh practical realities when it comes to teaching, assessing and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Policy, Competency Based Education, Barriers
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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)
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Habiyaremye, Hashituky Telesphore; Ntivuguruzwa, Celestin; Ntawiha, Philothere – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
The teaching practices of mathematics are still little-known in Rwandan schools though the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) and many pedagogical documents recommend how to assess, what to assess, and when to assess the effective teaching of mathematics. This study aimed to assess Rwandan mathematics teachers' practices through pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Competency Based Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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