The Re-Emergence of Competency-Based Education: What It Might Look Like and Why It’s Needed in Today’s Classrooms — from thejournal.com by Keith Look
Excerpt:
For the current or upcoming unit of instruction, identify three learning targets to be assessed. Have students show what they know through both traditional modes of assessment as well as through CBE experiences. Then, consider what the data shows:
- For which learning targets is student competency better presented through traditional assessment? Through CBE?
- Is that a factor of the learning target or the way in which the assessment (traditional or CBE) challenged students?
- Based on this experience, what kinds of learning targets may lend themselves more to CBE? To traditional assessment?
- Are there students who more effectively demonstrate competency through the CBE than the traditional assessment?
- Why is CBE a more effective vehicle for those students?
- Could the task itself be revised to unlock the same potential in other students?