The Role of Assessment Instruments in a Competency-Based System
No matter how you approach it, you cannot mitigate the massive change agent that is competency-based education….
Back to Bloom: Solving the 2 Sigma Problem with Online CBE
Originally posted October 22, 2014 at the Christensen Institute. The term competency-based education (CBE) is a lot…
Considering Competency-Based Education? Reconsider How You Assess
This blog originally appeared here on The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) ed.review’s edudebate series on…
No Laughing Matter: Productive Assessment and the Value of Taking a Pulse
Growing up, I was always a fan of standup comedy. From the comics of my father’s age,…
Performance-Based Assessments as a Tool for Building Lifelong Learning Competencies
I’m sharing this article on Laconia High School that was originally published in the Center for Secondary…
Tying It Together with Performance Assessments
During the past year, Memorial Elementary School staff has focused our learning on how to develop high…
Thoughts on Grain Size
As schools across the country engage with and implement proficiency-based learning, one of the first steps educators…
Performance-Based Assessment in Action
Originally posted May 16, 2014 at gettingsmart.com. For more on Danville’s overall approach see District Transformation in Danville….
Little Boxes: Common Assessments in the Age of Competency Education
I am a sucker for quality hip hop music and the art of sampling. There is something…
The Paradox of Right the First Time: Transform Assessment Practices to Reflect Growth
Those of us experimenting with how we accurately measure student skills and abilities hit a wonderful fork…