An alternative, competency-based compensation is also used to pay teachers.
As a high school social studies teacher for 13 years starting in 1978 I taught what I estimate as two thousand students who took the New York State United States history regents examination and maybe an equal number who took the alternative Regents Competency Tests.
To insist that drawing a line as such is wrong ignores the point of doing so, and recourse to the alternative of a competency test is not appropriate or practicable.
In advancing the conventional credit by exam concept, this article describes the Credit By Exam 2.0 program designed to explore alternative pathways in competency-based education.
Building on Herbert Simon and others, Nickerson and Zenger (2004) have written about how the attributes of the problem (complexity and decomposability) can be matched with the costs and competencies of alternative organizational forms (what we call governance structures, following Williamson 1996) to facilitate the search for valuable solutions.
There is certainly room in academia for alternative means to judge the competency of scholarship.
However, once again, "hypothetical clients" have been widely recognized as a reliable and systematic way to assess technical competency when other alternatives are not viable due to low case load for years [ 18].
Both have proposed competency tests for teachers and alternative certification programs to ease the state's severe teacher shortage.
Last fall, Garry Bieringer, a detention alternative coordinator for the Department of Juvenile Probation, began counting competency cases in San Francisco.
Both have proposed competency tests for teachers, and alternative certification programs as a solution to the state's severe teacher shortage.
An alternative approach is to assess 'competencies' using competency frameworks such as the Mayo Colonoscopy Skills Assessment Tool (MSCAT) 15 and the Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS).
