Capturing student learning and growth through competency and portfolio grading
As learning environments become more focused on group work to nurture high-demand skills--like collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving, one of the top concerns is how...
Competency-based transcripts: do they affect college admissions?
The short answer: no. In fact, some colleges prefer them over traditional transcripts.
New Hampshire's schools are moving towards competency-based education, where students "show what...
Achievement gap study: PACE special education students do as well as...
UNH doctoral candidate Carla Evans looks at whether competency education improves academic achievement for special education students. She finds dramatic results: PACE students with IEPs do about as well in 8th grade math as those without IEPs.
Trump Education Dept. hits the start button on innovative tests like...
The United States Department of Education is encouraging more states to develop innovative assessment programs like New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE),...
Performance Assessments and Students with Disabilities
New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) program has become a national model for competency-based assessment and moving away from rigid, bubble sheet-style...
First year PACE results are in: what do they mean for...
The Department of Education recently released the results of the first Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) program. It was piloted in four districts...
Study finds performance assessments show gains for students with disabilities
The Concord Monitor ran a piece on UNH researcher Carla Evans's findings on PACE. She found promising results for students with disabilities. Here's an excerpt:
PACE, or...
New Hampshire changes statewide assessment for students
New Hampshire students will not be taking the Smarter Balanced Assessment in the spring, reported the Concord Monitor. The Department of Education has contracted...
Massachusetts education advocate looks to NH as a model for meaningful...
Education advocate Lisa Guisbond used New Hampshire's performance assessment model, PACE, when advocating for more meaningful measures of student and school progress. From the...
On NAEP scores, “proficient” does not mean performing at grade level
The recently released NAEP scores, which measure student performance in terms like "basic," "proficient," and "advanced," do not indicate whether or not students are...
