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 ...

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

Who says a high school graduate has no chance of competing in the global arena? With the brief competency assessment program offered by the tourism task force, even high school graduates can have the ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, an online higher education institution serving working adults, is now offering its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in a competency-based, ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

The following competencies are a product of a series of agency efforts by employees and subject matter experts to identify the critical knowledge and skills to successfully perform in the position of ...

Hansen and Sørensen describe the redesign of testing in courses offered by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA), which places “a greater emphasis on learning ...