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?

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification for the Structured Assessment for Analyzing Learning (SAFAL), a competency-based diagnostic assessment in line with the ...

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 ...

The data will be used for continuous improvement, not ranking or judging. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has taken a major step to improve the quality of education by introducing the ...

The increasing demand for CBSE to transition from traditional score-based assessments to competency-based evaluations is underscored by key findings from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), ...

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 ...

The CBSE will conduct competency-based assessments in Classes V and VIII in all its affiliated schools next year, the chairman of the board said on Friday. The assessments were conducted in around ...