{"id":8718,"date":"2017-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/in-search-of-efficacy-defining-the-elements-of-quality-in-a-competency-based-education-system\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:53:30","slug":"in-search-of-efficacy-defining-the-elements-of-quality-in-a-competency-based-education-system","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/in-search-of-efficacy-defining-the-elements-of-quality-in-a-competency-based-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores three questions related to defining what high quality means in a competency-based district or school: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. What are the common elements of the structure in competency-based schools? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. What are the features one might expect to see in a high quality competency-based school?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. What are the approaches that can be used to promote quality in a competency-based system? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This draft paper was prepared in advance of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/national-summit-on-k-12-competency-based-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and will be revised based on attendees\u2019 input. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Competency<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Works is hosting the Summit in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. The Summit will tackle 6 issues: equity, policy, quality, meeting kids where they are, identifying emerging issues and revising the working definition of competency education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review the other draft Summit papers that explore key issues:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/resource\/an-introduction-to-the-national-summit-on-k-12-competency-based-education\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/resource\/in-pursuit-of-equality-guiding-principles-for-equity-strategies-in-personalized-competency-based-education\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/resource\/meeting-students-where-they-are\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meeting Students Where They Are<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/resource\/fit-for-purpose-taking-the-long-view-on-systems-change-and-policy-to-support-competency-education\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8720,"template":"","issue":[368,394],"organizations":[29,36],"resource_topics":[149],"resource_types":[27,28],"class_list":["post-8718","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-evaluate-quality","organizations-competencyworks","organizations-inacol","resource_topics-competency-education","resource_types-competencyworks","resource_types-report"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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