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…
Colorado Department of Education Research
In January 2013, the Colorado Department of Education presented to the iNACOL community about their research on…
APEX Academy: A Diploma Plus School
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit with Alfonzo Paz, Assistant Principal at Academic Performance…
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…
On Five Musts for Mastery
Are there other articles or essays that you’ve seen about how technology can be used to respond…
Curriculum Model for Mastery-Based Learning
We had begun a short unit of study on Greek heroes, immediately following an introductory unit on…
Free Research in Review Webinar on data analytics
There is a free Research in Review Webinar scheduled for Tuesday, December 17, 3-4pm eastern. Dr. Joe…
Technology Tools Lag Our Competency-Based Aspirations
This post was originally published by the Christensen Institute on November 13, 2013. Last week I wrote…
Socialization in K-12 online learning – a brief lit review by Sharon Paster, iNACOL research intern
Today’s guest blogger is one of the iNACOL research interns, Sharon Paster, who does a brief literature…