Competency-based education in three pilot programs : examining implementation and outcomes

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Jennifer L., Author.

Contributor:

Steele, Jennifer L., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competency-based education--Evaluation--United States.

Competency-based education.

Poor children--Education--Evaluation--United States.

Poor children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2014

[Place of publication not identified] RAND Education 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency-based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth. Competency-based education meets students where they are academically, provides students with opportunities for choice, and awards credit for evidence of learning, not for the time students spend studying a subject. The Foundation asked RAND to evaluate these efforts in terms of implementation, students' experiences, and student performance. This report presents final results from that evaluation, offering an overview of competency-based education and the Project Mastery grant projects and describing the implementation of competency-based educational features under each project. The report concludes with six lessons for policy, partnerships, and practice."-- Publisher's description: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR732.html

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8330-8960-9