Eliot Levine Shares News on the Definition of Competency-Based Education in the Latest Innovation Spotlight Podcast
It’s been eight years since the field developed its working definition of competency-based education. This week,…
Student Thinking Made Visible: Assessing Transferable Skills with Brief Performance Tasks
Competency-based education emphasizes learning not only academic knowledge but also skills and dispositions. These include transferable learning…
Keeping Students at the Center with Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments
This post originally appeared at Next Generation Learning Challenges on June 4, 2019. Performance assessments provide a…
Shifting the English Department to Competency-Based Assessment
This is the third post in a series about the Farmington Area Public Schools in Minnesota. Links…
Building Our Assessment Literacy
This is the fifth book in the series Conversations with Authors About Competency-Based Education. I have never been…
Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education
This book, developed with input involving practitioners as part of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education,…
AASA Explores Competency-Based Education Grading
The focus of the February AASA Administrator is on what they refer to on the cover as “performance-based…
Sign on to the 10 Principles of Building a High Quality System of Assessments
Today, Jobs for the Future, iNACOL, and other national organizations released the report 10 Principles of Building…
Redesigning Systems of Assessments for Student-Centered Learning
This issue brief explores opportunities for states under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to rethink systems…
School Consortium Proposes a Better Transcript
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on September 14, 2017. For 125 years we’ve recorded the…