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 ...

What is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? A popular answer is the hard rules and soft infrastructure our K-12 systems devote toward seat time mandates. I ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

What exactly is competency-based learning? Check out Competency Works' description here. Competency-based learning (CBL) refers to the notion of allowing learners to acquire credits based on goals ...

The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

Why competency-based education is challenging centuries of tradition Kevin Stringfellow, Associate Director of Client Solutions, ExamSoft February 28, 2022 Competency-based education offers a way for ...

Competency-based education isn’t for everyone, say even supporters of the emerging form of higher education. Many of the 600 or so colleges that are trying to add competency-based degrees are focused ...

College and university leaders continue to show great enthusiasm for competency-based learning. They believe it can address some of higher education’s most pernicious challenges: rising costs, ...

The phrase “competency-based education” is quite a mouthful, but it was all the rage a few years ago among college leaders looking to expand access to their programs. The idea can sound radical, since ...

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 ...