The Journal

The Re-Emergence of Competency-Based Education: What It Might Look Like and Why It’s Needed in Today’s Classrooms

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...
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 ...

Edsby Introduces Destinations, Bringing Competency-Based Assessment to K‑12 at District and Regional Scale

Edsby®, a multi-award-winning, next-generation K‑12 digital learning platform, today introduced Edsby Destinations, a scalable competency-based assessment and reporting system for school districts and ...
India Today on MSN

Five lessons India can learn from assessment practices abroad

ETS outlines five international lessons for strengthening India's education assessment system. The approach links NEP 2020 ...
Education Week

Grading for Growth Through Competency-Based Education

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...
Nature

Competency-Based Medical Education Strategies

Competency-based medical education (CBME) represents a paradigm shift from traditional time-based curricula to outcomes-centred training. The core principle of CBME is to ensure that learners acquire ...
Entrepreneur

But What Can You Actually Do? Why Higher Education is Shifting to Competency-Based Learning

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Listen to this post Higher education is in the middle of a quiet but important shift. Across campuses and online programs, colleges are ...
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 ...
Saint Louis University

Backward Design in Competency-Based Medical Education

Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...
BIOENGINEER

Teaching Compassion: How Competency-Based Training Could Humanize Intensive Care

A new commentary in Intensive Care Medicine proposes a competency-based educational continuum that treats compassion, ...
Yahoo Finance

Corporate Visions Launches Competency-Based Training and Precision Skills Assessments to Measure and Manage Sales Team Skill Gaps

MESA, Ariz., Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Visions, the leading provider of evidence-based sales training, messaging, and revenue enablement solutions for B2B companies worldwide, today ...