{"id":3373,"date":"2015-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/summer-reading-for-newbies-what-is-competency-education-2\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:08:10","slug":"summer-reading-for-newbies-what-is-competency-education-2","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/summer-reading-for-newbies-what-is-competency-education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading for Newbies: What is Competency Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Susan Patrick and I started working together in 2009, there were two things written about competency education. There was lots about the classroom practices of mastery-based learning, but only Delivering on the Promise<\/a> and A New Model of Student Assessment for the 21st Century<\/a> provided insights into what a competency-based structure rather than a time-based system looked like. They are both still worth reading: Delivering on the Promise captures the transformation that occurred at Chugach School District, and I consider the description of the failings of the traditional system in A New Model of Student Assessment for the 21st<\/sup> Century to be one of the best out there.<\/p>\n Six years later, reports and blogs abound. So where should someone trying to understand competency education focus their attention? This list would be better written by a master-novice (someone who has just learned about competency education), as they would be able to tell you what was most helpful to them (in fact…we would love it if you told us what resources have been most helpful to you so that we are more confident in our recommendations). However, I will do my best to provide a reading list.<\/p>\n Please note: We are still building knowledge and gathering it together so we can learn from each other. I\u2019ve marked gaps in the field of knowledge in italics.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Quick Overview<\/b><\/p>\n As I make this list, it\u2019s really clear to me that as a field we are still missing an easy-to-read primer on competency education that helps explain how the pieces of competency fit together to create a cohesive system. Going a Bit Deeper<\/b><\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve read what competency education is, questions will likely abound. The following papers provide more depth.<\/p>\n How to Implement<\/b><\/p>\n Making Sense of and Integrating Personalization, Competency Education, and Blended Learning<\/b><\/p>\n State Strategies and Policy<\/b><\/p>\n Federal Policy<\/b><\/p>\n Higher Education<\/b><\/p>\n If you are totally new to cbe in higher education, start with Cracking the Credit Hour<\/a>\u00a0by New America Foundation. We\u2019ve also put together a reading list<\/a>.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Again, please let us know what you have found to be particularly helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[396,368,371],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3373","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-how-to-get-started","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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