The Teachers College competency-based program for training educational administrators seeks to create an informed educational leadership that can improve educational situations. This leadership is trained in the use of theories and techniques about the practice of administration in institutional and policy settings. Each student creates a program…

This monograph examines the concept of competency-based education (CBE) as it applies to elementary and secondary schools by identifying the defining characteristics and underlying rationale that distinguish CBE from other educational approaches, by describing a decision-making framework for use with CBE programs, and by discussing several…

The purpose of this paper is to begin the process of bringing conceptual clarity and order to the discussion of competency based education. Toward this end, a number of steps have been taken: (1) the wide variety of educational practices that relate to the concept of competency based education, and the variety of programs that carry the label,…

This monograph has been prepared for professional guidance personnel who are interested in examining more viable approaches to the preparation of guidance and counseling staff members. It proposes a competency-based concept of training and the counselor role. Part 1 of the monograph, "The Rationale," identifies the need for new ways to train…

As a result of program weaknesses found in a 1967 study of the counselor education program at Michigan State University, a new model entitled "systematic counseling" was developed. It has now been used with over 700 trainees and 6,000 clients in supervised practicum settings. Briefly, systematic counseling represents an organized means of…

This document is a report of the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) Project at the University of Texas at Austin. It contains a description of a conceptual model for generating, validating, and assessing competencies in the problem-solving, human relations, and job task domains which are critical to the success of instructional…

The Florida Bureau of Employment Service within the Florida Department of Commerce has developed and implemented a competency-based counselor training model which includes supervisory competencies. This article is limited to a discussion of the basic components of the supervisory portion of the model and the presentation of an actual case. (Author)

Counselor-education programs may be enriched through the use of modularized learning experiences. This article notes several recent articles on competency-based counselor education, the concepts of simulation and modularization, and describes the process of developing a modularized master's program at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.…

What effect is the "back to basics" movement having on American teachers and schools? Are the media and the politicians taking the public for a ride? Reports on the controversies surrounding such issues as standards, testing and accountability. (Editor)

Criterion referenced testing and methods of setting standards are presented as politically motivated rather than supporting any technological advance in education. (RAO)

Competency-based education asks educators and the public to give up decades of habits and assumptions regarding the structures and methods of schooling. (Author/IRT)

A competency-based, self-paced core music curriculum utilizing the concept of digital music synthesis is described. The system is designed to aid in experimental research into the perception of intervals, melodies, chords, rhythms, and harmonies. (RAO)

Describes Florida's new automotive mechanics curriculum, an individualized, self-paced learning sequence that combines text material, review exercises and actual work activities. Development of the materials, including incorporation of Florida's V-TECS catalog of performance objectives in auto mechanics, is described. A field-test experience of a…

The author reviews various sources of competencies used in forming a competency based educational process, dividing these sources into three groups: inductive (from observation), deductive (from general principles), and seductive (from presently existing programs). (MJB)