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Direct linkKathleen Kassie M. Silvas – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The cost of a college degree has caused students, higher education institutions, and government representatives to investigate alternative education designs that are advertised as cheaper, more flexible, and based on skills rather than classroom seat time. Students question the rising cost of tuition, increased time to degree completion, and the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Community College Students, Costs
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Download full textPoluyanov, Valery B.; Pyankova, Zhanna A.; Chukalkina, Marina I.; Smolina, Ekaterina S. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The topicality of the investigated problem is stipulated by the social need for training competitive engineers with a high level of graphical literacy; especially geometric and graphic training of students and its projected results in a competence-based approach; individual characteristics and interests of the students, as well as methodological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Geometry, Geography Instruction
LeBlanc, Paul – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Southern New Hampshire University's (SNHU) "College for America" (CfA) made history in April 2013 when it became the first degree program to be approved under the "direct assessment of learning" provisions in Title IV. For the first time, federal financial aid can pay for what students actually learn, not how long they sat in a…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Competence, Competency Based Education, College Students
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2013
In 2012, CAEL released the report "Competency-Based Degree Programs in the U.S.: Postsecondary Credentials for Measurable Student Learning and Performance," which examined the current state of competency-based postsecondary education in the U.S., profiling the various types of competency-based, or competency-focused, models that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2012
Today the U.S. higher education system is facing a crisis regarding its perceived quality. One model for improving quality is competency-based education, in which an institution clearly defines the specific competencies expected of its graduates. A key challenge is how to help more people, particularly adults, succeed at the post¬secondary level…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Success
Hoops, John – Complete College America, 2010
This is a report about a unique postsecondary education system, the Tennessee Technology Centers--a statewide system of 27 institutions providing a wide range of rigorous, one to two year, technical/occupational education programs at consistently high completion and placement rates in high skill and relatively high wage employment. This report…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Models, Delivery Systems, Graduation Rate
