Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

Two major players in K–12 education launched a joint effort last month to develop new assessments that could help shift schools’ focus away from traditional “seat time” requirements and toward more ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

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 ...

In a bold move towards educational reform, CBSE schools are now evaluating students in Classes VI to IX through a lens of conceptual understanding rather than mere memorization. This innovative ...

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has opened a free online training programme for senior school teachers on ...

Implementing entrustable professional activities into assessment can help judge students’ readiness to work independently.