(TNS) — Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

A new initiative aims at giving Nevada students more flexibility to move through classes at their own pace. The “Nevada Future of Learning Network” focuses on competency-based learning. The goal is to ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

A recent study suggests that although there is growing interest in skills- and competency-based learning, few colleges and universities have actually implemented the new model. The report, released ...

Students are looking for learning-life balance, and technology tools can make it easier for colleges and universities to help them achieve it. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix is pleased to report that more than three thousand individuals have graduated from its competency-based Master of Business Administration (MBA-CB), ...

The state of New Hampshire is contemplating a shift to competency based learning. As reported by Amanda Gokee for the Boston Glode, the shift is facing pushback from many educators. The pushback is ...