Competency-Based Education (CBE)
Proficiency Ratings
Faculty working within a CBE framework do not award students letter grades when evaluating assessments. Instead, instructors evaluate student performance using a verbal scale that reflects a learner’s proficiency at meeting a given competency. ...
Competencies
Competency-based education evaluates students in the context of clearly-stated course competencies. A competency is a specific, measurable ability or skill that a student must demonstrate to show mastery of a subject, typically focused on practical ...
Proficiency and Resubmission
Competency-based education’s underlying goal is ensuring learners develop mastery of all the competencies within a course. Typically, achieving that goal is not accomplished via a single submission of an artifact or the one-time performance of a ...
Distinguishing Assessment, Evaluation, and Grading
How does Kirkwood define assessment, evaluation, and grading in the context of CBE? “Assessment” is used as a noun referring to the method or the tool used to evaluate, measure, and document academic readiness, learner progress, skills acquisition, ...
Assessment
As shared via the article, “Distinguishing Assessment, Evaluation, and Grading,” assessment is defined as the method or the tool used to evaluate, measure, and document academic readiness, learner progress, skills acquisition, or the educational ...
Providing Valuable Feedback
What is feedback? According to Merriam-Webster online, feedback is “the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source.” Feedback gives learners valuable insights on the ...
Comparing and Contrasting CBE with Traditional Instruction
Competency-based education (CBE) is becoming more popular every day. What is its appeal? For many, CBE offers a more engaging, authentic, and flexible approach to learning. The fundamental difference is that traditional education measures learning by ...
Competency-Based Education at Kirkwood
The phrase “competency-based education” covers a lot of territory and means different things to different people. Therefore, it is important to nail down a definition so that all stakeholders engaged in competency-based education at Kirkwood ...
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Student Resource Links
Check your course syllabus for many more links to services and activities across campus. General Resources Kirkwood Community College Dept/Faculty/Staff Directory - find people, places, email and phone numbers College Catalog - Find course ...
What is a "Flipped" Classroom?
The "Flipped" classroom is a teaching strategy that reverses the traditional "lecture" during class and activities and homework completed outside of class. Instead, students read the textbook, watch course videos, and get the instructional content ...
How can I copy content from another course?
Copy All Components or Copy Select Components Open your new course (the course should be empty of content) and follow Course Admin > Import / Export / Copy Components Select "Copy Components from Another Course/Org Unit" (the default) and click ...
Where can I find professional development courses?
Most Professional Development opportunities are available in NeoEd. You can login to NeoEd by going to MyHub, clicking on NeoEd under My Links. From there, click on Training on the left hand menu, and Course Catalog to view all offerings. You can ...
How do I enable Honorlock for my remote students?
To enable Honorlock for quizzes in your Talon course or 3rd party exams on external publisher sites (e.g. Pearson or Cengage)... Talon Quizzes Click on Student Tools > Honorlock... Click the blue Enable button next to the quiz title. Configure the ...