When Krista Stalzer gave her class of fourth graders their first science assessment as part of a pilot program at her school in Epping, New Hampshire, she asked students to build a device that would ...

Among the set of schools tagged competency education, for example, only 47 percent report having a competency framework that defines what proficiency looks like at each performance level. Second, some ...

Competency-based education, proficiency-based learning, mastery-based learning, personalized learning, student-centered education, and standards-based education are all terms that refer to the same ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight years after releasing the field's first working definition of competency-based education, CompetencyWorks (at the Aurora Institute, formerly iNACOL, ...

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach, test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...