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CompetencyWorks
October 2017
How can the education field best advance through the next wave of competency-based learning innovation and implementation?
Tags: College & Career Readiness, Competency-Based Education
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American Institutes for Research (AIR)
September 2017
This toolkit is designed to help schools
and districts gather high-quality formative data to gauge progress towards and guide improvement efforts across various stages of competency education implementation.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Curriculum & Instruction
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Chris Sturgis and Susan Patrick
June 2017
This paper provides an overview of the goals of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, the four papers that form the basis of discussion at the Summit, and a glossary of terms used in the four papers.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Equity
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UMass Donahue Institute
April 2017
How effective is online credit recovery at increasing student engagement and achievement?
Tags: Assessment, College & Career Readiness, Competency-Based Education
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Florida SouthWestern State College
November 2016
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Governance & Finance
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American Institutes for Research
June 2016
What is the relationship between competency-based education practices and students’ learning skills, behaviors, and dispositions?
Tags: Competency-Based Assessment, Competency-Based Education
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Gabriel Reif, M.Ed., Greta Shultz, Ed.D. and Steven Ellis, M.P.A.
April 2016
What does student-centered learning look like in New England high schools?
Tags: Competency-Based Education, personalization, Student Voice & Agency
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Jobs for the Future and the Council of Chief State School Officers
August 2015
This document serves as a first step in identifying the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that educators need in order to create and thrive in effective personalized, learner-centered environments.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Personalization
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Chris Sturgis
June 2015
This paper describes effective strategies to convert traditional, one-size-fits-all models of education into more personalized, competency-based learning environments to meet students' needs.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Curriculum and Instruction, personalization
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University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute
March 2015
This brief highlights findings from a study of 12 Massachusetts high schools with high dropout rates that developed online credit recovery programs as part of the "MassGrad" initiative.
Tags: Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Time, Technology
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Susan Patrick and Chris Sturgis
March 2015
Blended learning can be a powerful tool in a competency-based curriculum, allowing for deeper, more personalized student learning.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Personalization
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Lillian Pace, Jesse Moyer, and Matt Williams
February 2015
The rise of competency education will require policy change at many levels to remove time-based barriers that make it difficult to build a student-centered education system.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Policy
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RAND Education and Jobs for the Future
November 2014
This paper examines the equity concerns in competency education through the lens of family income - exploring the effects and implications, as well as proposing potential mitigations.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Equity
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Susan Patrick and Sara Frank Bristow
October 2014
Many countries are taking steps away from a time-based educational structure to one based upon personalization and competency.
Tags: Competency-Based Education
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Cecilia Le, Rebecca E. Wolfe and Adria Steinberg
September 2014
Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college and careers.
Tags: College and Career Readiness, Competency-Based Education, Learning Time
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New England Secondary School Consortium
February 2014
Proficiency-based grades incentivize students to work harder and learn more because progress and effort are recognized and rewarded.
Tags: Assessment, Competency-Based Education
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Chris Sturgis
January 2014
Our A-F grading scheme is undermining the very core purpose of our education system: learning.
Tags: Assessment, Competency-Based Education
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Susan Patrick and Chris Sturgis
February 2013
A modern education system should center on mastery rather than ticking off hours spent at a desk. This issue brief shares insights into re-engineering the policy and practices of the K-12 system to be more student-centered.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Governance & Finance, Policy, Teachers & School Leaders
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Liz Glowa and Susan Patrick
February 2013
This brief examines components and elements of effective competency-based information systems.
Tags: Competency-Based Education
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Laura Shubilla and Chris Sturgis
December 2012
Competency-based education requires a system of supports that meet students’ individual needs as they work toward proficiency.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Policy
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Nora Priest, Antonia Rudenstine and Ephraim Weisstein
November 2012
Best practices from K-12 schools implementing personalized approaches to learning.
Tags: Competency-Based Education
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James Pellegrino
October 2012
Deeper learning—a process by which students acquire critical thinking, self-management, and communication skills, among other 21st century competencies—is positively tied to future health, education, and work.
Tags: 21st Century Skills, College Readiness, Competency-Based Education
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Chris Sturgis
July 2012
Competencies, learning objectives that foster lifelong skills and opportunities for growth, facilitate deeper knowledge and assessment than traditional time-based measurements.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Teachers & School Leaders
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Heidi Andrade, Kristen Huff, and Georgia Brooke
April 2012
Student-centered assessments should be individualized, motivate and engage students, and focus on learning and growth.
Tags: Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Governance & Finance, Policy
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Christina Brown and Pascale Mevs
February 2012
Quality performance assessments can provide a deep portrait of student mastery for schools and educators. This 2012 report details examples of schools using performance assessment systems and provides a framework and essential elements for implementation.
Tags: Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Curriculum & Instruction
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Susan Patrick and Chris Sturgis
July 2011
Just as there are multiple pathways for students to learn, there are multiple pathways for states to create room for innovation in education policy.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Governance & Finance, Learning Time, Policy
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Chris Sturgis, Susan Patrick, and Linda Pittenger
July 2011
This report summarizes the key issues discussed at the March 2011 Competency-Based Learning Summit.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Learning Time
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New England Secondary School Consortium
May 2011
Some students leave high school knowing calculus, while others still struggle with basic math. How can we make sure every student graduates prepared?
Tags: College & Career Readiness, Competency-Based Education, Learning Time
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Chris Sturgis and Susan Patrick
November 2010
Competency-based education has the potential to re-engineer education systems so that failure is no longer an option for students.
Tags: Competency-Based Education, Governance & Finance, Policy
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