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- Meeting Students Where They Are: Profiles of Students in Competency-Based Degree Programs by CAP
- All Hands on Deck: Ten Lessons from Early Adopters of Competency-based Education - published by WCET and WICHE (2014)
- Scaling Stackable Credentials: Implications for Implementation and Policy - CLASP (2014)
- What America Needs to Know About Higher Education Redesign - Lumina/Gallup study, 2014
- On Competence: A Critical Analysis of Competence-Based Reforms in Higher Education. Gerald Grant, Peter Elbow, Thomas Ewens, Zelda Gamson, Wendy Kohli, William Neumann, Virginia Olesen, and David Riesman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979. This is a fairly balanced review of the original FIPSE funded CBE programs from the 1970s, although dated.
- Sharpening Our Focus: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion - CAEL, Nov. 2013
- Customized, Outcome-based, Relevant Evaluation (CORE) at Lipscomb University: A competency-based education case study - CAEL
- What is Competency Education - Robert Mendenhall, Huffington Post
- A 'Disruptive' Look at Competency Education - Center for American Progress
- Competency-Based Models: A Necessary Future - Richard Voorhees
- New England Secondary Schools Consortium is partnering with states and higher education to create policy alignment.
- A Compendium of Competency-Based Education Resources in the PS and K-12 Landscapes - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Colleges commit to accepting proficiency-based diploma - CompetencyWorks
- Call for a National Conversation on Creating a Competency-based Credentialing Ecosystem - CLASP
- A Path to Alignment: Connecting K-12 and higher education via the Common Core and the Degree Qualifications Profile - Lumina
- See It's Not a Matter of Time: Highlights from the 2011 Competency-Based Learning Summit for discussion on intersection between higher ed and K12.
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