The American Enterprise Institute's Center on Higher Education Reform today released two new reports on competency-based education, which follow a report the centerreleased in January. The first paper uses results from a survey of hiring managers at companies around the country to learn about employers' perceptions of the emerging form of higher education. The survey found that while employers' overall awareness of competency-based education is low, those that do know about it have a favorable view.
The center's second paper seeks to describe best practices for the assessments that competency-based programs use. The report argues that the credibility of this form of higher education hinges on the quality of those assessments.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/04/09/new-reports-competency-based-education