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 ...

Competency-based teaching is a high-order form of teaching… If we insist on this path, we must rethink who is standing at the front of the classroom,” Sossion said during an exclusive interview at ...

For years, the traditional education system in the U.S. has focused on how much time students spend learning, what curriculum and instruction they receive, and which letter grade they earn on their ...

The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...

Students, educators, employers, and policymakers alike are beginning to embrace competency-based education models that have the potential to transform standards of higher education, keeping students ...

The Indian government promotes the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as a means to overcome the 'Macaulay mentality'. This ...

The U.S. Department of Education will give its blessing -- and grant federal aid eligibility -- to colleges' experimentation with competency-based education and prior learning assessment. On Tuesday ...

Competency-based education is going upmarket. Three brand-name, Big Ten-affiliated institutions are now offering degrees in this emerging form of higher education. Yet the new programs at the ...

Apprenticeship within the Igbo system is governed by clearly understood norms: learning occurs through immersion, assessment ...

Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 127-138 (12 pages) The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of competency-based self-analysis of videotape ...