Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs.

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Competency Based Learning Data Outcomes Professional Learning 204

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

Survey 105

Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Students get more control over what and how they learn and take more responsibility for their progress. Teachers also change their grading policies. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 117

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

They are a good resource for states, districts and schools to start the conversation about the new policies and practices that need to be put in place. Summative assessments evaluate learning achievement and are graded; summative-assessment scores record a student’s level of proficiency at a specific point in time.

Learning 40

Learning Comparison Assessment Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The rubrics and learning targets are now fixtures in each Montpelier classroom. In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. Montpelier High School students working on a problem in a math class.

Learning 87

Learning System Report Outcomes 87

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Powerful ideas that seem simple in print quickly take on new, and potentially divergent, meanings as they are applied to policy and practice. Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Figuring out which assessments that are appropriate for each competency takes work.

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Competency Based Learning Education Policies Assessment 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. Students at M.S.

Learning 108

Learning Common Core System Groups 108

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145