Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education

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.

Jonathan E. Martin is an Arizona based consultant and writer on 21st century learning and assessment. Among his recent affiliations and client organizations are ACT Inc., Mastery Transcript Consortium, EdLeader21, National Association of Independent Schools, Enrollment Management Association, Blackbaud, INDEX, and Think Through Math. From 1996 to 2012 he served as Head of School at three independent schools in California and Arizona, most recently at St. Gregory College Preparatory School in Tucson.

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