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In a competency-based system, students move ahead when they've mastered content, not when they've reached a certain birthday or endured the required hours in a classroom.
Miscellaneous
Common Principles of Mastery-Based Learning
Making Mastery Work - A Close-up View of Competency Education
Ten Principles of Mastery-Based Learning
Competency-Based Learning: Definitions, Policies, and Implementation
NESCC Briefing No. 5—What is a Mastery-Based Diploma?
NESCC Briefing No. 11—How Does Mastery-Based Learning Work?
Books
Transforming Schools - Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards by Bob Lenz with Justin Wells & Sally Kingston
It's not what students know, but what they do with what they know that is important.
Schools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own education. [Read more]