A curriculum that allows teachers to focus on student progress towards important competencies is one that: 1. Clearly identifies standards and their related competencies. Listing standards in a unit ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

The previous chapter identifies eight competencies that the available research suggests are related to undergraduate persistence and success: (1) behaviors related to conscientiousness; (2) sense of ...