Full Description
Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today's best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. With more and more school leaders turning to alternate, competency-based approaches for learning, crediting and transcripts can follow suit by drawing on badging, micro-crediting, digital portfolios of student work, and other emerging tools. Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education explores the need for this transformation while detailing the implementation of promising models, particularly the Mastery Transcript Consortium. Written by an experienced consultant and former school leader, this book will assist school and district administrators in making a forward-thinking crediting and transcript system work for their students' futures.
Contents
Foreword by Kevin Mattingly
Meet the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Competency-Based Crediting Models from Higher Ed and Abroad
Chapter 3: The Mastery Transcript Consortium
Chapter 4: Elements of the New Model
Defining and illustrating competencies and how they are developed
Establishing learning opportunities by which students can earn competencies
Collecting and curating student work in digital portfolios
Assessing competencies, particularly with rubrics
Using new transcript types to report earned competencies
Chapter 5: Downstream Effects on Schools and Systems, Curriculum, and Instruction
Chapter 6: Learning from Experience: Case Studies of Competency Based Learning Transformation
Chapter 7: Planning the Shift: A Game Plan
Chapter 8: Perspectives from Higher Education
Chapter 9: Conclusion
