competency-based

As medical and graduate medical education move to competency-based models, and as the MCAT is transformed into whatever the fifth version becomes, those who seek to educate pre-meds need to remind ourselves that these students who face seemingly impossible challenges require our attention.

Mary Engel: Future of Health Care Depends on Properly Supporting Pre-Med Students Mary Engel 2011

New assessment systems should support rather than act as a barrier to competency-based learning -- in which time is variable but learning is constant for each student -- and systems should shift to focus on measuring and rewarding individual student growth instead of fixed inputs.

Tom Vander Ark: Assessment Innovation Not Super Tests Tom Vander Ark 2011

"We need to move aggressively to competency-based education" based on mastery of skills at the student's own pace, rather than on an accumulation of credit hours, said Emily DeRocco, president of the Manufacturing Institute, a research arm of the group.

Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need James R. Hagerty 2011

As medical and graduate medical education move to competency-based models, and as the MCAT is transformed into whatever the fifth version becomes, those who seek to educate pre-meds need to remind ourselves that these students who face seemingly impossible challenges require our attention.

Mary Engel: Future of Health Care Depends on Properly Supporting Pre-Med Students Mary Engel 2011

For no more than we spend today, we can create tech-enabled competency-based student-centered schools that help more students find academic success.

Tom Vander Ark: I Want an Uncommon Curriculum Tom Vander Ark 2011

I also agree with the statement that "Teenagers are inherently highly capable young adults; to undo the damage we have done, we need to establish competency-based systems that give these young people opportunities and incentives to join the adult world as rapidly as possible."

Abolish High School?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In addition, a competency-based system would allow youths of differing abilities to advance at the rate of their own capability, rather than being pushed through the system of moving up by grade along with one's age peers regardless of one's success or failure with the material being taught.

Abolish High School?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I advocate a competency-based system that focuses on the abilities of the individual.

Against Adolescence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Teenagers are inherently highly capable young adults; to undo the damage we have done, we need to establish competency-based systems that give these young people opportunities and incentives to join the adult world as rapidly as possible.

Abolish High School?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Such a system would encourage the rapid expansion of competency-based programs, assessment of prior learning, and more effective methods of teaching and learning.

Fixing higher ed: Lumina's Jamie Merisotis 2011