Competency-based interview questions ask candidates to share an example from their past experience that illustrates a specific competency required for the job. The best answers are specific and ...

Small businesses often have a harder time attracting and hiring the best employees for specific jobs when they write traditional task-focused job descriptions in their want ads. Competency-based job ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As the first baccalaureate program of its kind in the nation, Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s transdisciplinary studies in technology degree offers a unique approach to ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

Competency-based education, proficiency-based learning, mastery-based learning, personalized learning, student-centered education, and standards-based education are all terms that refer to the same ...

Students who enroll in a new competency-based program at Northern Arizona University will earn a second transcript, which will describe their proficiency in the online bachelor degree’s required ...

Competency-based education (CBE), in which credit is provided on the basis of student learning rather than credit or clock hours, is starting to gain traction with educators and policymakers. CBE ...

Keystone College announced it is offering a new, competency-based Master of Business Administration degree online for the fall 2026 semester.

Over the past year or two, as the manic buzz about MOOCs settled down to a steady hum, many predicted that competency-based education (CBE) would follow as the next big thing in higher education.