I'd be very concerned if we try to nationalize or standardize expectations of what counts as competency," she said. "The credit hour is a fundamental academic decision. Faculty should decide what's attached to coursework."
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Web 2.0 Tools that Promote Higher Order Thinking Skills | Digital Learning Environments - 0 views
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Carnegie, the Founder of the Credit-Hour, Seeks Its Makeover - Curriculum - The Chronic... - 0 views
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Allowing the professionals to determine what competency means for each respective class will be critical to its success.
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Many colleges embrace Advanced Placement examinations as universal markers of quality, she said. Lawyers and doctors also have rigorous qualifying exams that are essentially competency-based assessments.
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This is not the right time to jump off the old credit-hour boat and assume that new competency-based assessments are primed and ready to sail," she said. "And we should definitely not kid ourselves that there are strong standardized tests already available that can do the job for us."
U.S., Iowa need new education culture | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register - 0 views
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Higher teacher salaries that attract and keep the brightest professionals are also needed. Here's what a PISA report had to say about that: "The findings from PISA suggest that systems prioritizing higher teachers' salaries over smaller classes tend to perform better, which corresponds with research showing that raising teacher quality is a more effective route to improved student outcomes than creating smaller classes."
News: Hybrid Education 2.0 - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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‘Reinventing Higher Education’So what exactly is the pedagogical model Carnegie Mellon has discovered, that has inspired such faith? Essentially, it’s an online program that teaches students itself, rather than just being the medium a professor uses to teach. Furthermore, it leverages the opportunity to interact directly with a unique student -- an opportunity a professor addressing dozens of students in a lecture hall does not have.
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Interesting concept. Can this be replicated in HS? It could be a cost savings for districts.
How California's Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It | TechCrunch - 0 views
Competency-based education continues spread | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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To retain good teachers, 68 percent called supportive leadership "absolutely essential," 45 percent said the same of higher salaries and 8 percent listed performance pay. Many of those surveyed also described "relevant" professional development as essential, along with "clean and safe" working conditions, time for teachers to collaborate and access to high-quality curriculum. In addition, 71 percent said monetary rewards for teacher performance would have moderate or no impact on student achievement.
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