What would the testing experience be like if schools allowed students to show what they know whenever they’re ready, in a variety of ways that suit them, and in ways that are instructionally useful?

Southern New Hampshire University's competency-based program, College for America, is opening up new options for the assessment of student learning. It's also turning the notion of the traditional ...

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 ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

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 ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

"I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as ...

The idea couldn't be simpler: Instead of awarding college degrees based on the accumulation of credit hours — essentially "seat time" in the classroom — make the foundation of a degree a set of ...