Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. An option several school districts I converse with are trying is called “mastery-based learning” — MBL. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. This has amplified Jon’s voice with teachers and professors.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Look for achievable steps that point toward large-scale change to a competency-based system. For one thing, moving to competency-based education requires changes across many areas of a campus, from the way professors teach to the way the registrar awards credit.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

In an essay published earlier this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education, history professor François Furstenberg argues that companies promising to “deliver a ‘competency-based, life-skills-based achievement record’” do so primarily in order to sell their technology.

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