Open AccessEvolving practices to improve student performance and efficiency in competency‐based postsecondary technical training
Author(s) -
Cummings Kevin,
Stephens Terri,
Horne Owen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of competency‐based education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2379-6154
DOI - 10.1002/cbe2.1208
Subject(s) - pace , vocational education , schedule , training (meteorology) , postsecondary education , institution , medical education , higher education , throughput , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , pedagogy , political science , medicine , telecommunications , physics , geodesy , meteorology , law , wireless , geography , operating system
The Davis Technical College pioneered competency‐based vocational/technical education. The institution's early model allowed students freedom to create their own schedule and to move at their own pace, but proved ineffective at encouraging students to be efficient in completing their training. A sharp increase in enrollment in the early 2000s drove the college to revise the model which resulted in increased efficiency and, thus, higher throughput.