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

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Educational Program Evaluation;    Disadvantaged Students;    Education Reform;    Educational Technology;    Education Curriculum;    Students;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR732
ISBN  :  9780833087256
RP-ID  :  RR-732-BMGF

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 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.