For years, accreditors, employers and a host of educational reformers have sought an outcomes-oriented education with explicit learning objectives and rigorous assessments to evaluate and certify ...

This type of education model shifts learning from a one-size-fits-all approach to a more flexible and specialized learning ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

Kalispell schools are transforming student learning by introducing a new program called Personalized Competency-Based ...

Students, educators, employers, and policymakers alike are beginning to embrace competency-based education models that have the potential to transform standards of higher education, keeping students ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

Most state legislatures have broken down barriers to competency-based education, but they still have work to do. Forty-two states now provide flexibility for schools that want to try competency-based ...

Explore the shift to competency-based education in India, focusing on real-life skills over traditional exam memorization.

Parents of Rundlett Middle School students will see a different sort of report card come home at the end of the quarter. Like many districts across New Hampshire, and, increasingly, the country, ...

A growing number of state policymakers are excited about the potential for competency-based education (CBE) to better meet individual student needs and eliminate learning gaps that traditional ...

In higher education, semesters and credit hours are the typical measuring stick. But there's a different approach that's attracting more students, more colleges – and more scrutiny. It’s called ...