TY - BOOK ID - 21673549 TI - Competency-based education in three pilot programs : examining implementation and outcomes PY - 2014 SN - 0833089609 9780833089601 9780833087256 0833087258 PB - [Place of publication not identified] RAND Education DB - UniCat KW - Competency-based education KW - Poor children KW - Education, Special Topics KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Evaluation KW - Children of the poor KW - Economically disadvantaged children KW - Competency training KW - OBE (Education) KW - Outcome-based education KW - Outcomes-based education KW - Performance-based education KW - Economic conditions KW - Children UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21673549 AB - "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."-- ER -