Boxed In: Structural Limitations to Flexible Pacing in Michigan Competency-Based Education Pilot Districts

Autor/inn/en	Sutherland, Danielle; Strunk, Katharine; Nagel, Jesse; Kilbride, Tara
Titel	Boxed In: Structural Limitations to Flexible Pacing in Michigan Competency-Based Education Pilot Districts
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Change, 24 (2023) 4, S.837-869 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1389-2843
DOI	10.1007/s10833-022-09466-2
Schlagwörter	Competency Based Education; Pacing; Educational Policy; Educational Change; School Districts; Flexible Progression; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Lerntempo; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	Over the last decade, policymakers have been experimenting with competency-based education, an instructional reform that relies on flexible pacing to enable students to achieve content mastery at their own pace. In this paper, we draw on mixed-methods data from teacher surveys and interviews to examine the use of flexible instructional pacing in five Michigan school districts implementing competency-based education. While implementing flexible pacing was challenging for all five districts, we identified several promising practices that facilitated flexible pacing in their districts. These included the adoption of school-wide interventions and the ability of teachers to share students across classrooms. These practices resulted from explicit prioritization of flexible pacing in some districts, whereas in others, they occurred somewhat by happenstance. In all cases, structural challenges (e.g., the division of time and space and the allocation of students to individual classrooms) inherent in "the grammar of schooling" impeded some or all efforts to implement flexible pacing. It will be essential to tackle these structural challenges to flexible pacing in future efforts to implement competency-based education reforms. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01