{"id":6013,"date":"2015-11-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2015-11-05T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:12:21","slug":"competency-based-assessment-everything-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/06\/competency-based-assessment-everything-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency-Based Assessment: Everything Old is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6015\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gamification-10-300x300.png\" alt=\"gamification-10\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gamification-10-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gamification-10-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gamification-10.png 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Like I&#8217;ve said before, much of gamification really isn&#8217;t new at all. This is an example. Competency-based assessment is one of the corner-stones of my gamified designs, along with giving students access to almost all of the assignments at the start of term and letting go of deadlines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of higher education\u2019s elder statesmen could see a shake-up coming.<\/p>\n<p>An odd bit of administrative protocol, the credit hour, had outlived its usefulness, he thought. It forced students to bide their time for weeks, months, semesters \u2014 even if they had already mastered the material.<\/p>\n<p>They should be free to move through college by demonstrating their achievement, he wrote, instead of deferring to time spent in class. A new day was dawning, wrote Walter A. Jessup, who was the leader of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching \u2014 the group responsible for creating the credit hour in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;American higher education,&#8221;\u00a0he predicted, &#8220;appears to be well on its way to another stage of development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was 1937.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacrao.org\/resources\/resources-detail-view\/how-a-40-year-old-idea-became-higher-education-s-next-big-thing\">How a 40-Year-Old Idea Became Higher Education&#8217;s Next Big Thing| resources| AACRAO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are ways to implement this that maintain quality without disadvantaging students, but if the institution&#8217;s top priority is money rather than education, it is likely to miss important considerations.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6013'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6013);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6013);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6013);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Like I&#8217;ve said before, much of gamification really isn&#8217;t new at all. This is an example. Competency-based assessment is one of the corner-stones of my gamified designs, along with giving students access to almost all of the assignments at the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/06\/competency-based-assessment-everything-old-is-new-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,352,369,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-gamification-2","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1yZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7168,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/12\/10\/is-it-what-straight-a-students-get-wrong-or-is-it-what-we-get-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":6013,"position":0},"title":"IS it What Straight-A Students Get Wrong, or is it what WE get wrong?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not the students' fault. Not making marks random, and reducing the risks of failure are what gives students more room to really think. We owe them that. We need to get rid of compartmentalized grading entirely, and quit blaming the students for responding appropriately to an unreasonable assessment system.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4557,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/25\/innovations-in-undergraduate-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":6013,"position":1},"title":"Innovations in Undergraduate Learning","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago I presented\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Innovations in Undergraduate Learning \u00a0summit\u00a0\u2013 SFU Public Square \u2013 Simon Fraser University. 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It just doesn't seem to fit anymore. Is that because it is bullshit, as Ian Bogost said back in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icon-scorecard.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6409,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/04\/03\/gameful-learning-table-of-contents-for-gamification-101\/","url_meta":{"origin":6013,"position":4},"title":"[Gameful Learning] Table of Contents for Gamification 101","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the current Table of Contents for Gamification 101 (Book 1) Gamification 101: An Inquiry Based Journey Part 1 - Background Prologue What s Gamification? 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