A critical component of all competency-based language programs in K-12 is to clearly articulate the knowledge and skills that students will acquire and demonstrate.

Oral competency is essential to the language classroom. Most language teachers focus on vocabulary building, the dreaded conjugation charts, and the false realities often found in school texts.

Advocates for competency-based learning, and for new approaches to teacher education, can chalk up another victory: the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved the Woodrow Wilson Academy of ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Competency-based education programs grant credentials based on what a student knows.

What is competency-based education? Competency-based education is an approach in higher education that focuses on learning as the constant rather than time - what students can do with what they know.

Competency-based education is starting to take hold. What is competency-based education, and why is it so different? Traditional time- or credits-based education is like a transaction, almost as ...

Speakers at last week's annual conference of the nonprofit Competency-Based Education Network promoted a new report that's part of a coordinated push to grow adoption and acceptance of the education ...

Flexible competency-based learning modules were designed to change elementary teacher trainees' knowledge-skills in and attitudes toward inquiry teaching. The effectiveness of the modules was compared ...

Competency-based education is going upmarket. Three brand-name, Big Ten-affiliated institutions are now offering degrees in this emerging form of higher education. Yet the new programs at the ...

Competency-based programs allow students to progress according to their demonstrated mastery of subject matter instead of the time they spend in a course.