1 Nov 2016
Presentation

Getting Started with Evaluation: Making the Case for Competency Based Education

Getting Started with Evaluation is the first in a four-part series designed to help institutions use data to demonstrate the value of competency-based education (CBE) programs for their students and continuously improve program quality.

In the hour-long webinar based on these slides, participants learned how to build powerful and compelling research questions that can make a difference to stakeholders, and who to engage in campus evaluation team for the best possible results.

Attendees were also presented hear results from a new AIR issue brief, On the Path to Success: Early Evidence About the Efficacy of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Programs, focused on gathering early evidence of CBE programs’ effectiveness, based on AIR’s work with six CBE programs across the country.

Related Work

19 Dec 2016
Presentation

Evaluation for Improvement: Making the Case for Competency-Based Education

Evaluation for Improvement is the second in a four-part series designed to help institutions use data to demonstrate the value of competency-based education (CBE) programs for their students and continuously improve program quality. In this webinar, participants learned the fundamentals of two continuous quality improvement models—Root Cause Analysis and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle—and how they applied to improvement within the context of CBE program.
Topic: 
Education, Postsecondary Education
7 Apr 2017
Presentation

Aligning for Learning - Evaluating Connections: Making the Case for Competency-Based Education

Aligning for Learning: Evaluating Connections is the third presentation/video in a four-part series designed to help institutions use data to demonstrate the value of competency-based education (CBE) programs for their students and continuously improve program quality. This webinar presents the importance of alignment in relation to validity of learning and evaluation of program effectiveness, and explores implications for ways to address misunderstandings in the larger field of higher education around high quality CBE programs through communication of internal alignment.
Topic: 
Education, Postsecondary Education
12 Oct 2016
Spotlight

Postsecondary Competency-Based Education

Postsecondary competency-based education (CBE) is receiving considerable attention from advocates, colleges, and policymakers as a way to help more students complete high-quality postsecondary credentials in less time and at a lower cost—but we're just beginning to build rigorous evidence to understand whether CBE programs are fulfilling those value propositions.
Topic: 
Education, Postsecondary Education
24 Aug 2016
Brief

Key Characteristics of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education (CBE) Programs: A Descriptive Rubric

This rubric, drawn from the expertise of leaders within the postsecondary Competency-based education (CBE) field, is designed to help CBE program leaders, their campus colleagues, and researchers describe key features of their CBE program.
Topic: 
Education, Postsecondary Education
17 Oct 2016
Brief

On the Path to Success: Early Evidence About the Efficacy of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Programs

Better evidence about student outcomes in competency-based education (CBE) and how they compare with outcomes in traditional programs is important as institutions and policymakers consider investing in them. This brief presents evidence that CBE programs are on the path to success in fulfilling their value propositions of broadening access, offering paths to credentials, and improving cost and quality.
Topic: 
Education, Postsecondary Education

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