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Download full textLayng, Joe; Redding, Sam – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2016
This field report is the seventh in a series produced by the Center on Innovations in Learning's League of Innovators. The series describes, discusses, and analyzes policies and practices that enable personalization in education. This report introduces sessions from the "Conversations with Innovators" event held at Temple University,…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing, Measurement Techniques, Academic Standards
Direct linkHipkins, Rosemary; Bolstad, Rachel; Johnson, Cathie – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2015
The phrase "Education 3.0" is used to signal a complex and still-evolving paradigm shift from the traditional schooling models of the 19th and 20th centuries (Education 1.0), via an intensified focus on teachers' and school leaders' accountabilities in relation to students' learning (Education 2.0), towards a more holistic model of…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Barriers, Educational Practices, Educational Assessment
Pae, Holly; Whitaker, Susan D.; Gentry, Roberta – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Areas of our country are headed toward significant social and political unrest if education ignores the demographic trends reshaping our schools. This article describes how one teacher training program in South Carolina examined its cultural context, accreditation standards, and course offerings to restructure its curriculum to address cultural…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Teacher Education Programs, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedTyo, John – Clearing House, 1979
The author presents an overview of the Competency-Based Education (CBE) movement, including the impetus for it and its advantages and disadvantages. (SJL)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Legislation, Educational Trends
Kimpston, Richard D.; Anderson, Douglas – 1986
Principals and teachers involved in implementing benchmark testing in a large, urban, midwestern school district progressed from lower to higher stages of concern during the 4 years of a longitudinal study. A random sample of the teachers and all the principals in the district's 49 elementary, 9 junior high, and 10 high schools completed the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Benchmarking, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing
Hall, Gene E. – 1978
Over the past few years, several complicated innovations, such as mainstreaming and minimal competency testing, have confronted teachers in addition to their usual responsibilities. In order to facilitate the teachers' implementation of such changes, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) was developed, using the teacher and the innovation as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKirst, Michael W. – Educational Researcher, 1991
Heightened demand for testing is seen as a function of public skepticism regarding the quality of public education. Discusses developments and trends in the following areas: (1) minimum competency testing versus higher order skills testing; (2) kindergarten and first grade readiness testing; (3) portfolio-based assessment; and (4) teacher…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
