What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?
For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and … Read more
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N.J.-based Educational Testing Service Calls for ‘Seismic Shift’ in Academic Assessment
Should students be graded a new way — a system that aims to address a full range of skills to … Read more
2 Architects of Traditional Assessment Embrace Competency
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new … Read more
Higher Ed’s Game of Thrones: Ace Plans to Debut New Carnegie Classification Methodology This Year
It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as several decades for higher education: colleges hyperfocusing … Read more
The High School Credit-Hour: A Timeline of the Carnegie Unit
The credit-hour, often known as the Carnegie unit, has been the essential measure of American secondary and higher education for … Read more
The Head of the Carnegie Foundation Wants to Ditch the Carnegie Unit. Here’s Why
Call it seat time, student hours, contact credit. For more than a century, students’ progress toward academic degrees has been … Read more
