eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

New survey delves into how teachers would use micro-credentials and examines how widely-known the concept is. The study, from nonprofit ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise and consulting firm Grunwald Associates, takes a detailed look at how teachers say they feel about professional development and competency-based micro-credentials.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Right now, LaRocca says, there are two types of assessments on the market: surveys and performance-based assessments. Surveys are by far the most common, making up over 90% of available tools. LaRocca’s team use surveys provided by. As Edward Chen points out, these surveys are subjective. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

One of the challenges of competency-based learning is that you have to redo all your curriculum practices,” he says. As the project gains momentum, Siemens also plans to survey students to better understand how the tool is working. A number of other institutions have expressed interest.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. As such, we need to have an alternative ready that people will value and that ensures our most vulnerable students are not left behind.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. To identify top challenges, we asked educators and education leaders to use a wiki survey crowdsourcing tool to answer the question: “Which is a bigger challenge in K-12 education?”

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Education STEM Competency Based Learning Wiki 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Most public institutions we surveyed, such as Pace University, said no, while private institutions like Columbia University stated that they consider everything an applicant sends in. . Students like Carson want to show off the hard work they have put into their portfolios, but have a hard time generating an audience—even with the redesign.

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ePortfolio Social Media Adobe Survey 107

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In the end, the researchers came up with a handful of perhaps unsurprising conclusions: flipped learning is constantly evolving, has transformed class time into active learning time, attained a global following and is creating new job opportunities. Go learn it, but I’m not going to tell you to learn it by this date.’

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Competency Based Learning Training System Report 39

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

After the pilot, during which Bolduc received support from NGLC in crafting an end-of-year survey for her class, she began thinking about how her students would continue developing CARES skills when they left Memorial to enter sixth grade.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Use a Google Form to create a survey you can send to parents. Whether you already practice student-led conferences or are interested in getting started, Edutopia has a great list with examples and tips. Assign some pre-work. Ask them what they know about what their child is doing in class and how the year has gone so far.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Hoping to get to the root of the issue, I conducted an anonymous survey of my students. 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. Combing through the results was a humbling and difficult experience.

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Data Classroom Strategy Student Engagement 162

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The new report by the Competency-Based Education Network devotes a section to the importance of quality assurance in the creation of competency-based programs, and urges accreditors to develop standards that understand the unique features of these programs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For its part, the OECD, the organization that administers the PISA test, has started surveying 10- to 15-year-olds’ social and emotional skills too. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). But the new mode of testing caused a great deal of headache too.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”

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