Competency-Based Learning
Learn more about an instructional model where students work at their own pace to meet specific learning goals or competencies
What Is Standards-Based Grading, and How Does It Work?
Schools can retool to make instruction more personalized and student-centered. But grading is a common sticking point.
Assessment
K-12 Essentials Forum
Making Competency-Based Learning a Reality
Join this free virtual event to hear from educators and experts working to implement competency-based education.
Assessment
This School Didn't Like Traditional Grades. So It Created Its Own System
Principals at this middle school said the transition to the new system took patience and time.
Personalized Learning
Video
VIDEO: Inside a Competency-Based Learning Program Without Grades
This district's competency-based program gives students greater autonomy over their education, providing feedback rather than grades.
Teaching
Spotlight
Spotlight on Empowering Educators for Student Success
This Spotlight delves into strategies to empower teachers and equip them with the tools to foster student success.
Assessment
From Our Research Center
What Educators Have to Say About Competency-Based Education
Teachers, principals, and district leaders shared skepticism and optimism for the learning model.
Personalized Learning
From Our Research Center
Teachers Want to Know More About Competency-Based Learning. Will They Embrace It?
The learning model still has a long way to go before it's a household name, survey data show. But there's interest in learning more.
Assessment
From Our Research Center
It's Hard to Shift to Competency-Based Learning. These Strategies Can Help
Educators are interested in the model and supportive of some of its key components, even if largely unfamiliar with the practice.
Professional Development
Teachers Need PD to Make Competency-Based Learning Work. What That Looks Like
Can teachers use microcredentials to become skilled at teaching in a way they probably never experienced as students?
Personalized Learning
All States Allow Competency-Based Learning. Will It Become a Reality in Schools?
School districts in every state have the flexibility to adopt competency-based learning, but implementation is easier said than done.
Special Report
Competency-Based Education: What It Is and How to Pull It Off
Competency-based education can upend more than a century of tradition in K-12 schools. How schools have made it work.
Personalized Learning
Inside One District's Experiment With Competency-Based Education
It鈥檚 tough to discern what grades and subjects are being taught in the Moonshot classroom. And that's part of the point.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Can Mastery-Based Learning Replace Seat Time?
Developing better assessments and getting buy-in from practitioners will be key to replacing seat time as a proxy for mastery.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
It May Be Time to Retire the Carnegie Unit. Are There Better Measures of Learning?
The Carnegie Foundation popularized seat time as a measure of learning. Now, the organization鈥檚 president lays out a new vision.
Assessment
Opinion
To Replace Skill Mastery for Seat Time, There Are 3 Requirements
Time for learning and student support take on a whole new meaning in the mastery-based learning model.