{"id":17734,"date":"2023-06-22T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/?post_type=cw_post&p=17734"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:13:50","slug":"reinventing-the-traditional-hs-diploma-mastery-transcript-consortium","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/reinventing-the-traditional-hs-diploma-mastery-transcript-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing the Traditional HS Diploma: Mastery Transcript Consortium \u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is the fourth in a part of a series based upon a report from the Aurora Institute, Going Beyond the Traditional: Next Gen Credentials and Flexible Learning Pathways<\/a>, which seeks to deepen state policy makers\u2019 understanding of the changes needed to facilitate meaningful next generation credentials (\u201cnext gen\u201d) and advance state policy to support those changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The Mastery Transcript Consortium <\/span>\u00ae<\/span> (MTC) leads the field in the US at building a movement to reinvent the high school transcript that reflects what students know and can do, rather than a list of courses taken at a moment in time. Designed as a membership organization, MTC has created a system for secondary schools to use, while also building a network of member schools in the process of working towards a Mastery Transcript \u00ae that \u201cauthentically and holistically captures student learning, progress, and interests,\u201d (<\/span>Mastery Transcript Consortium \u00ae, 2023<\/span><\/a>). It offers a platform for creating a competency-based transcript and, in the past year, has provided the new MTC Learning Record tool to extend or supplement <\/span>a traditional transcript by communicating knowledge, competencies, and skills. MTC also connects and builds an understanding of mastery and extended transcripts with higher education professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mastery Transcript \u00ae Design<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Mastery Transcript <\/span>\u00ae <\/span>is designed to be dynamic and interactive. It includes links to useful information about the school and the curriculum. The design provides more information about a student than the traditional system, while remaining digestible and comprehensible to the user.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Students each create their own profiles, where they have a short bio.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The credit profile displays grouped lists of skills by competency domains with an interactive list of specific competencies that illustrate a learner\u2019s concentrations, the level of competency demonstrated, and whether the competency credits are foundational or advanced in the school\u2019s system.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • A list of completed courses can be viewed by completion date or by discipline. If applicable, the record can indicate whether a student has met state distribution requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • An evidence menu shows artifacts from the student\u2019s actual projects along with the competencies they are aligned to.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Instead of listing grades, the transcript lists the skills that a student has mastered from each course.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \"Example<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Figure: Mastery Transcript Consortium \u00ae<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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    Take a tour of a sample Mastery Transcript \u00ae in this video:<\/span><\/p>\n