The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. As superintendent of Melrose Public Schools, Cyndy Taymore is leading a districtwide transition to competency-based education. MELROSE, Mass.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

According to a 2021 McKinsey report , disruptions such caused by the pandemic left K–12 students five months behind in some key subjects such as Math. Learning gaps vary a lot in complexity and intensity. This is where learning gaps come to light. However, to truly identify and tackle learning gaps, grading tests is not enough.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning. Various forms of assessment are reported separately.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

One of the benefits of using an LMS for online teaching is that it makes teachers’ lives easier when it comes to tracking student progress and learning outcomes. This is an excellent way of identifying if there are any sections that students might be struggling with, for example, an assessment that they can’t get past.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 6, 2017

In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge. What’s in it for educational institutions.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Students can get automatic learning recommendations based on their level of competency and goals. ILPs take the analytics and reporting capabilities of LMSs one step further.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A Digital Learning Now report highlights digital backpacks as a solution for teachers who, without these tools, “have little visibility into the past performance of their students, what other teachers noted, or each learner’s strengths, weaknesses, and individual needs.”. Find the Tools to Introduce Interoperability. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This report, co-authored by Digital Promise and the Center for Teaching Quality, explores the current K-12 micro-credential landscape to uncover insights and opportunities to help grow the effectiveness of micro-credentials in supporting educator and student learning. Micro-credential Assessment Infrastructure. Download [7.50

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

To some, SBG means throwing letter grades out the window, replacing them with more objective report cards that closely track student progress and success in standards mastery. Of course, a grading overhaul like this requires a huge shift in a school’s approach to teaching and assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. And Nashville is not the only city reporting an alarming number of students receiving failing grades. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Rather than compete, students cheer one another on, staffers say.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Figuring out which assessments that are appropriate for each competency takes work. Other objectives may be more suitable for performance- or project-based assessments that are evaluated with subjective rubrics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. In addition to funds awarded through the program, students may also apply for state and federal aid.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. Read the Executive Summary HERE and the full report HERE ). During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

He shared how this new tool may give hope to teachers striving to help all students while simultaneously drowning in a sea of data, standards, adaptations, assessments and growing needs. EdSurge: How can curriculum providers help schools address teacher burnout and reduce gaps in student learning? Recommended resources from Smith.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended learning and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that teachers and leaders from around the country were deploying on the ground. 2 Go Slow to Go Fast When Implementing Competency-Based Models. 3 Make Students Agents of Their Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the Reagan administration’s Nation at Risk, an alarmist and misleading report that has since been discredited , there has been a bipartisan attempt to break open the education “market” and put public school dollars into private pockets. It’s time to heed our warnings. Teachers want our field returned to us. What do teachers want?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. We’re also working to report on students’ mastery of skills with progress levels, rather than a traditional report card at the end of each semester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

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. They self-assess and give themselves a grade, which goes in the gradebook as long as it’s reasonable.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Personalized learning, competency-based learning and dynamic organizational design have shown promising results in school districts across the nation, according to a new report from Education Elements.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

As we chronicled in a new report , and as previous efforts to fix similar problems among healthcare institutions has demonstrated, the economic incentives in the current system make wholesale change nearly impossible.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? There’s no way to assess mastery of complex activities. The rest is history.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

In thinking about how a semirural school district could support equity and opportunity for kids, they talked a lot about personalized and competency-based learning. The driving philosophy now is that all students should achieve certain learning outcomes and the school day should be built around helping them do so.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Profile was crucial in developing our current Strategic Leadership Plan for 2018-2022, where Personalized Learning is the top strand. But there is a difference when defining exhibitions in the context of CBE or as a high quality performance assessment. page 94).

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile. To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources.

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