Tag: competency
Mastery-based Education – A New, Olde Idea
Mastery-based = competency-based = outcome-based education. None of this is new. Four decades ago, outcome-based education was implemented and failed, so education reformers simply brought it back with a shiny new name. Maine calls it Proficiency-based; Utah, Competency-based; and Idaho, Mastery-based. This document from 1984 shows the correlation. 1984FederallySponsoredOBEProjectHL I agree that the idea of […]
