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Carlgren, Dave – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2021
As the 21st century has just passed its 20th year, there have been some changes to educational policy and practice in domains in many countries around the world, including more than 4.1 million children in 137 countries participating in skill development programmes aimed at fundamental learning. Few of these have reached to secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, High Schools, Educational Practices
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Evans, Carla M.; Graham, Suzanne E.; Lefebvre, Melissa L. – NASSP Bulletin, 2019
This exploratory study uses data from 413 principals to examine whether and how competency-based education has been implemented in the Northeast states and the extent to which there is variation in implementation between states with different policies. Results suggest that competency-based practices that are most similar to current practices are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Policy
Tonakiewicz-Kolosowska, Anna; Socik, Iwona; Gajewska, Monika – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
The authors present the development and perspectives of improving the quality of Information Literacy programmes in Polish technical universities, considering the Bologna Process and the general conditions of the Polish higher education system. The survey conducted in selected technical and medical universities provided an overview of changes…
Descriptors: Information Skills, Competency Based Education, Information Literacy, Curriculum Implementation
Covarrubias-Papahiu, Patricia – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2016
The aim of this research was to know how the Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach is represented by professors who are part of the professional education of psychologists, and the challenges and implications of, in their opinion, incorporating it in the classroom practice. Therefore, a research was conducted to know the type of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Minimum Competencies
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Strohschen, Gabriele I. E., Ed.; Lewis, Kim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Education for adults ought to consider a both-and mindset when it comes to selecting approaches, values, and program models in today's multi-sector, multi-diverse, and cross-cultural environments of teaching and learning. Experiences from educational professionals can lead to recommendations for these instruction and mentoring approaches of adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Situated Learning, Active Learning
Ritterband, Vicki; Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Lindsay Unified School District (California) exemplifies the promise of competency education (or performance-based education, as it is called locally). Since beginning its transition to the model in 2009, discipline problems have sharply dropped, the school climate has dramatically improved (as measured by the California Healthy Kids Survey), and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Implementation, Fidelity, Models
Pane, John F.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Baird, Matthew D.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2015
The adoption of personalized learning approaches has increased significantly in recent years. This report examines achievement in 62 public charter and district schools that are pursuing a variety of personalized learning practices, and examines implementation details in 32 of those schools. Researchers obtained achievement data for personalized…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Evidence, Curriculum Implementation, Charter Schools
Lee, Keunho – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2014
The implementation of the national curriculum in the Republic of Korea is ensured through curriculum revisions and the instructions issued by the Ministry of Education. The latter are acts of the Minister of Education that must be enforced in individual schools as stipulated in the regulations of Article 23 of the Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making, Creativity