Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards
[…] measures of assessment to be both valid (correctly measuring what you want to measure) and accurate (being consistent in what you measure). Standards-based While standards-based is not competency-based, it is certainly related and worth explaining. The main difference lies in the granularity of a standard (very specific) compared to the more broad skill applications […]
The Learner-Centered Competency-Based Learning Management System
[…] well-aligned to the standards-based assessment systems, allow organized curriculum design and facilitate asynchronous learning. Yet, most legacy solutions still are not able to support a learner-centered and competency-based system needed to document the unbundled and credentialed pathways that will best serve all learners. Through our partner work with XQ Institute, we identified core criteria […]
A Platform to Support Competency-Based PBL
It’s hard to support and manage project-based learning in a competency-based environment. In this post, Erik Day shares a look at a platform designed to help.
From the State House to the Classroom: How Policymakers Can Help Bring Competency-Based Education Into Reality
Wyoming’s big shift towards competency-based education (CBE) isn’t just a policy milestone - it’s an opportunity to examine partnership-based approaches to implementing CBE.
From Pandemic to Possibility: Now is the Time to Consider Competency-Based Education
By: B. Owens & J. Lee. The inequities exposed by the pandemic have forced educators to rethink their learning plan. Competency-based learning is helping to meet the needs of all students.
Surviving the Extremes at the WPS Summit
Armed with swag and ready to learn all about competency-based systems, attendees from across the country poured into the Marriott Westminster for the Westminster Public Schools (WPS) Summit. The room buzzed with anticipation. The WPS Summit is a three-day conference focused on competency-based education. Located in Denver and in its third year, the summit […]
Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters
By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.
6 Ways State Policymakers Can Build More Future-Focused Education Systems
By: Jennifer Kabaker In states across the nation, we see growing momentum to shift education systems to be more personalized, competency-based, and equitable. About ten years ago, only about a dozen states were working to create waivers and flexibility from seat-time-based credits. Today, every state has some sort of policy in support of competency-based […]
Why 20 Missouri School Districts Are Seeking New ‘Innovation Waivers’ to Rethink the Way They Test Students
[…] “The group with our very first innovation waiver request — the Success-Ready Students Network — kind of grew out of a (state) work group that was looking at competency-based education.” While 20 school districts in the Success-Ready Students Network have agreed to launch new assessments if approved, other schools will join in the future, said […]
Smart List: Learning Platforms
[…] focused, others are more focused on specific learning trajectories. What has emerged over the last four years are more legacy platforms attempting to adopt project-based, personalize, or competency-based features and emerging platforms beginning with these next-generation features. The pandemic only accelerated the development and adoption of personalized LMS platforms that better meet the needs […]
