Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. No more just showing up for class and meeting the seat time requirements. According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education.

Competency Based Learning 89

Competency Based Learning Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

Online Learning 132

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 132

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

System 60

System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. Some districts are taking another approach, suggesting that diplomas should be based on a different set of standards for students with significant disabilities.

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System Assessment Guidelines Meeting 101

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

At Pittsford elementary, she says, there are “a higher number of students who are meeting their projected growth.” Benchmark reading scores for second grade students increased from 29 percent in September 2016 to 77 percent in March 2017; special education referrals have also decreased by 21 percent since the pilot started.

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Assessment Elementary Data Groups 160

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

Assessment 80

Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

Learning 86

Learning System Report Outcomes 86