Listening to Our Critics: Offering Multiple Assessments on the Path to Proficiency
I read an article today about a company that scours through comments and complaints from customers on…
Next Stop, Level 4
Depending on which knowledge taxonomy you use, the highest level with the deepest learning is either Level…
Understanding Grading in Competency-Based Schools
On Thursday, April 24, 2014, 2:00-3:00 PM ET CompetencyWorks is sponsoring a webinar Understanding Grading in Competency-based…
What’s Homework Got to Do with It?
At Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a student-centered, competency-based high school, we host as many as…
What is Proficiency-Based Grading?
The New England Secondary School Consortium has produced a GREAT resource, What is Proficiency-based Grading? The briefing outlines three elements…
Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education
iNACOL and CompetencyWorks are releasing Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education today. Every school at…
Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education
The purpose of this report is to explore how to redesign grading systems to best help students…
Is Mastery a 3 or a 4 or Something Far Beyond That?
We hear the critique of competency education occasionally as a linear, rigid, boring process of students learning…
How Competency-Based Grading Has NOT Changed Our School’s Transcript
My school district implemented a K-12 competency-based grading and reporting system four years ago. The implementation included…
Getting Up to Speed on Grading
We are getting ready to release a paper on competency-based grading in January. In the meantime, I…