What is competency-based education, and why is it so different? Traditional time- or credits-based education is like a transaction, almost as though the student is purchasing the right to be educated ...

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Competency-based education, proficiency-based learning, mastery-based learning, personalized learning, student-centered education, and standards-based education are all terms that refer to the same ...

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The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...

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Students will face more competency-based questions, including case studies, data interpretation, source-based items, and situational problem-solving tasks.

Here are a few competency-focused practice questions students should go through, as they provide a sense of the types and difficulty levels expected in the upcoming exams.

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach, test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working ...