AERA Annual Meeting: Promoting Competence-Based Education: Landscape, Assessment, and Practices

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Promoting Competence-Based Education: Landscape, Assessment, and Practices

Fri, April 12, 4:55 to 6:25pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 117

Session Type: Symposium

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As educational pathways become increasingly non-linear, we need an educational system that recognizes multiple ways of learning and focuses on competencies. As a result, competence-based education has gained momentum in many states. The four papers in this symposium session (1) provide an overview of the current landscape of competence-based education, with promising practices and challenges, (2) discuss how a school district in Nevada implements a competency framework through personalized learning and formative assessment, (3) present empirical evidence from Playful Active Learning, an approach aiming to broaden student skills from active interactions and engagement, and (4) provide a review of comprehensive Portrait of a Graduate work undertaken by multiple states to advance competence-based learning.

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Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Division H - Section 3: Assessment in Schools

Promoting Competence-Based Education: Landscape, Assessment, and Practices

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