At a recent meeting sponsored by iNacol to think deeply about competency and assessment, we talked about what impact the last few decades of learning science should have on doing the best job planning and using competencies for learning.
The good news is the learning science lines up with the idea of personalizing instruction, and the pace of instruction, for individual learners: they're likely to be more motivated, and more successful, if they can work and master at different rates, doing different things, to get to the same competencies.
However, not every way you could conceive of making learning personalized is likely to match how learning and expertise actually work.
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