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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7249/RR732
来源IDRR-732-BMGF
Competency-Based Education in Three Pilot Programs: Examining Implementation and Outcomes
Jennifer L. Steele; Matthew W. Lewis; Lucrecia Santibanez; Susannah Faxon-Mills; Mollie Rudnick; Brian M. Stecher; Laura S. Hamilton
发表日期2014-08-04
出版年2014
语种英语
结论

Not All Competency-Based Programs Look Alike

  • Each Project Mastery grantee emphasized different aspects of competency-based education. Some placed greater emphasis on student choice and project-based learning, while others focused on flexible pacing and evaluation for proficiency.

Tensions Exist in Implementing the Approach

  • Sites faced challenges in determining how to provide credit for out-of-school activities, including afterschool activities and travel-based learning experiences.
  • Sites experienced tension in holding all students to a common definition of proficiency and evaluating students strictly based on performance, not effort.
  • Sites faced challenges in providing enough computer hardware so that students could use new competency-based curricula or in identifying funds that would permit expansion of new curricula beyond the pilot initiatives.
  • Sites reported that students with weak academic backgrounds may require extra support under competency-based models.

Student Experiences Were More Similar Than Expected

  • Because the programmatic details of the Project Mastery sites were varied, one striking finding was the similarity of students' self-reported experiences across sites.
  • The highest student reports of engagement, flexible pacing, and choice came from a site in which respondents were focused on yearlong, self-directed projects that applied academic content to real-world contexts.

Student Performance Varied Across Sites

  • Effects of competency-based models on student learning appeared most positive in programs that put primary emphasis on student choice with project-based learning.
  • However, the research design did not permit causal inference, and these findings could be at least partially due to students' or teachers' selection into the programs.
摘要

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.

目录
  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Evaluation Settings and Methodological Approach

  • Chapter Three

    Intervention Development and Implementation

  • Chapter Four

    Tensions in the Implementation of Competency-Based Models

  • Chapter Five

    Students' Experiences in the Project Mastery Pilot Classes

  • Chapter Six

    Student Outcomes in the Project Mastery Sites

  • Chapter Seven

    Conclusion

主题Disadvantaged Students ; Education Curriculum ; Education Reform ; Educational Program Evaluation ; Educational Technology
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR732.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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Jennifer L. Steele,Matthew W. Lewis,Lucrecia Santibanez,et al. Competency-Based Education in Three Pilot Programs: Examining Implementation and Outcomes. 2014.
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