The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

To some, SBG means throwing letter grades out the window, replacing them with more objective report cards that closely track student progress and success in standards mastery. Of course, a grading overhaul like this requires a huge shift in a school’s approach to teaching and assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. And Daniel A.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. Five of the nine states involved in the SETDA report are currently using Ed-Fi resources. by Eli Zimmerman. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. The role of technology.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One of the challenges in trying out new learning strategies, including those that embrace technology, is that schools have a tough time finding out which new methods work best – which ones actually help kids learn. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. based nonprofit organization, for five years.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In my role as the Chief Culture Officer at Valor Collegiate Academy , I’ve been wrestling lately with how to quantify, develop, and measure competencies like vulnerability in children (and adults) so that experiences like Jamal’s can become the rule rather than the exception. can quantify elation? what kind of equation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the Reagan administration’s Nation at Risk, an alarmist and misleading report that has since been discredited , there has been a bipartisan attempt to break open the education “market” and put public school dollars into private pockets. It’s time to heed our warnings. Teachers want our field returned to us. What do teachers want?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

more and more schools recognize the importance of SEL curriculums —and with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) now allowing schools to choose a non-academic accountability measure —the question is being raised: Do we need to measure these competencies, and if so, how the heck do we do it? Assessing the assessments.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. An example?

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

IXL submitted its whitepaper, ” IXL Design Principles: Core Features Grounded in Learning Science Research ,” as evidence that links IXL’s product design to established research on how students learn. Recent research proves the effectiveness of IXL: Studies across more than 58,000 schools in 24 U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. In addition to funds awarded through the program, students may also apply for state and federal aid.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Our collective goal was to begin to rethink quality assurance in an educational system with an array of learning providers. Framework for the Future of Learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. Source: ReSchool).

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

As we chronicled in a new report , and as previous efforts to fix similar problems among healthcare institutions has demonstrated, the economic incentives in the current system make wholesale change nearly impossible.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. It’s everyone getting what they need.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. We’re also working to report on students’ mastery of skills with progress levels, rather than a traditional report card at the end of each semester.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

These conferences are rarely original and are often a missed opportunity to truly connect with parents about something beyond the report card. I credit technology—and superheroes. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. But technology isn’t going to redefine parent-teacher conferences for you; it’s only an enabler.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. And this approach is growing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Students can get automatic learning recommendations based on their level of competency and goals. ILPs take the analytics and reporting capabilities of LMSs one step further.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

So he’s joined a pioneering program based at MIT to take people like him, with experience in high-demand fields such as engineering, physics, math, languages, biology and neuroscience, and transform them into teachers. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others. Student learner pathways are customized based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and goals; and learning experiences vary. These programs have built in assessments that analyze students’ understanding and mastery.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Three main ways schools are attempting this work are through technology use, an emphasis on personalizing learning and moving toward a mastery-based or competency-based evaluation system. The report also identifies some key system changes that would support the grass-roots work that has already begun.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

We have to use technology to relieve some of that exhaustion.” After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn. A single teacher can't do it all.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. They bought a learning management system (LMS) and asked us to start using it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. In 2011, Jim Shank, the superintendent then, spearheaded a one-to-one iPod program, seeing the promise of technology as a means of giving students targeted academic support.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

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. Other objectives may be more suitable for performance- or project-based assessments that are evaluated with subjective rubrics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. They self-assess and give themselves a grade, which goes in the gradebook as long as it’s reasonable.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Technology Bridges the Language Gaps.

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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. Ten school districts in Illinois, including Chicago, are piloting the approach.

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