Inside Higher Ed

2 Architects of Traditional Assessment Embrace Competency

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

NH gets approval to pilot competence-based testing

CONCORD — New Hampshire will be the first state in the nation to try a new approach to measuring student progress — one that relies more on demonstrating competence and less on standardized tests — ...
Business Wire

University of Phoenix Will Be One of the Few Higher Education Institutions in the U.S. Offering Direct Assessment Competency-Based Education Programs

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix announces the planned August 1, 2022, launch of two direct assessment competency-based education (CBE-Direct Assessment) programs at the graduate and ...
Inside Higher Ed

Is Competency-Based Education an Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...