However, a glaring mismatch persists. While curriculum and pedagogy have shifted toward competencies and real-world application of skills, but assessment remains stuck in the past. Unit tests and ...

The increasing demand for CBSE to transition from traditional score-based assessments to competency-based evaluations is underscored by key findings from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification for the Structured Assessment for Analyzing Learning (SAFAL), a competency-based diagnostic assessment in line with the ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

As 2025 draws to a close, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has emerged as one of the most active education ...

Explore how curriculum, assessment, and policy changes are fostering independent learning in schools worldwide.

By Faiza Mirza, COO, WACE IndiaWhen India introduced the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, it challenged long-standing assumptions about what learning shoul ...

Empower your classroom with practical approaches for meaningful assessment and learning outcomes with our professional learning guide, Assessment & Competency-Based Learning: Strategies for Measuring ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

Assessing studentsâ clinical competencies using a competency assessment tool (CAT) is an essential part of nursing education. Assessors need to use CATs effectively to facilitate learning and students ...

Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...