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PBA is not about grades One common misconception about proficiency-based learning (competency-based learning) is that it is about changing a grading system. In particular, when people discuss proficiency-based assessment, they immediately start discussing the one through four scales for measuring learning. The 1-4 scale of measuring achievement came from the creation of learning scales meant to help students understand where …
This year, I was very lucky to have the opportunity to teach entrepreneurship. I used the opportunity to experiment and reflect on proficiency-based assessment as it relates to project-based learning. The driving question for this semester long course was what businesses make the best Shark Tank pitches? This overarching idea was broken into four parts. I developed a learning scale …