Competency-Based Education

Competency-Based Education implies leaving behind the A-F grading scale and designing instruction that includes explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives to empower students with specificity in their learning and at its best, enables them to move at their own pace (often coupled with personalized learning). It also emphasizes the same departure of other modern pedagogy in that students create knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge going forward. This topic impacts credentialing, mastery and assessment.

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From Aspiration to Application: Working Examples of Assessment in the Service of Learning
Competency-Based Education

From Aspiration to Application: Working Examples of Assessment in the Service of Learning

Edmund W. Gordon, Eva L. Baker, Howard T. Everson, Eric Tucker

For decades, educators have aspired to transform educational tests and assessments from merely means of evaluating students’ progress into catalysts for learning—a vision championed by Edmund W. Gordon. The third volume in the Handbook of Assessment in the Service of Learning series reflects a shift from aspiration to application.