Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

Competency-based education is gaining steam, but questions remain about which forms the U.S. Department of Education will back. Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees.

Through a collaboration between faculty, instructional designers and assessment staff, a template has been created in BbLearn to help connect the course to the overall program and to make integrating ...

Direct Assessment refers to any method of collecting data that requires students to demonstrate a knowledge, skill, or behavior, normally as part of the regular educational experience of students in ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, an online higher education institution serving working adults, is expanding its signature FlexPath competency-based, direct assessment learning format ...

Direct assessment, or gathering evidence demonstrating exactly what students did, or did not, learn, provides the most helpful information about student learning. While indirect assessment can ...

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 ...

The Office of Assessment, Accreditation and Effectiveness is offering 14 workshops this year on topics ranging from Developing or Refining Course Level Outcomes to Direct Assessment of Program Level ...

Western Michigan University touts itself as a student-centered research university. As such, students are the main focus of our mission. We must be continually concerned with what our students learn ...