| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 106 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Evaluation Settings and Methodological Approach -- Intervention Development and Implementation -- Tensions in the Implementation of Competency-Based Models -- Students' Experiences in the Project Mastery Pilot Classes -- Student Outcomes in the Project Mastery Sites -- Conclusion. |
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"RAND Education." |
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"Prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106). |
| Note |
Description based on print version. |
| Summary |
In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency-based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth. Competency-based education meets students where they are academically, provides students with opportunities for choice, and awards credit for evidence of learning, not for the time students spend studying a subject. The Foundation asked RAND to evaluate these efforts in terms of implementation, students' experiences, and student performance. This report presents final results from that evaluation, offering an overview of competency-based education and the Project Mastery grant projects and describing the implementation of competency-based educational features under each project. The report concludes with six lessons for policy, partnerships, and practice. |
| Subject |
Competency-based education -- United States.
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Educational evaluation -- United States.
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Competency-based education. (OCoLC)fst00871437
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Educational evaluation. (OCoLC)fst00903437
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, Matthew W., author.
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Santibáñez, Lucrecia, author.
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Faxon-Mills, Susannah, author.
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Hamilton, Laura S., author.
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Stecher, Brian M., author.
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Rudnick, Mollie, author.
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Rand Education (Institute)
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Rand Corporation, issuing body.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steele, Jennifer L. Competency-based education in three pilot programs. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014] 9780833087256 (DLC) 2014946600 (OCoLC)885229799 |
| ISBN |
9780833089601 (electronic bk.) |
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0833089609 (electronic bk.) |
| Report No. |
RAND/RR-732-BMGF |
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