Businesses use several tools to assess the competency of their workers. Such instruments measure the ability to perform the job and ancillary skills such as spatial reasoning. Moreover, employers have ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

Southern New Hampshire University's competency-based program, College for America, is opening up new options for the assessment of student learning. It's also turning the notion of the traditional ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

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 ...

When you hire an employee to work for your company, he must remain competent. An incompetent employee can slow down the company's overall productivity, as well as lower the morale of the workplace ...

The American University of Nigeria has five overarching core learning outcomes that it assesses in its general education delivery.

CBSE New Digital Assessment Platform: India’s education system is going through an important change. Earlier, students were judged mainly on how much they could remember from textbooks. This method ...