Research Catalog

Title

Competency-based education in three pilot programs : examining implementation and outcomes / Jennifer L. Steele, Matthew W. Lewis, Lucrecia Santibañez, Susannah Faxon-Mills, Mollie Rudnick, Brian M. Stecher, Laura S. Hamilton.

Author

Steele, Jennifer L.

Publication

• Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Lewis, Matthew W.
• Santibáñez, Lucrecia
• Faxon-Mills, Susannah
• Rudnick, Mollie
• Stecher, Brian M.
• Hamilton, Laura S.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsoring body.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• Rand Education (Institute) researcher.

Description

xxi, 106 pages : color graphs; 28 cm

Summary

"In 2011, the Bill & 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."--"Abstract" on web page.

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation)

Subject

• Competency-based education > United States > Evaluation
• Poor children > Education > Evaluation. > United States

Note

• "RAND Corporation research report series."--Web page (PDF).
• "RR-732-BMGF"--Page 4 of cover.
• "The research ... was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was produced within RAND Education, a division of the RAND Corporation."--Verso of title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Evaluation Settings and Methodological Approach -- Intervention Development and Implementation -- Tensions in the Implementation of Competency-Based Models -- Students{u2019} Experiences in the Project Mastery Pilot Classes -- Student Outcomes in the Project Mastery Sites -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780833087256 (pbk.)
• 0833087258 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 885229799
• SCSB-9966172

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library