Overview
Competency-based assessment breaks when competencies are defined too broadly to measure, mastery thresholds are set arbitrarily, or the evidence requirements accept performance that looks like mastery without being it. The result: learners earn credentials for compliance, not capability.
The Competency-Based Assessment Designer builds a rigorous CBE system from the competency definition outward: what mastery actually looks like in observable performance, what evidence is sufficient to demonstrate it, what conditions the demonstration must occur under, and how progression through a competency ladder is gated.
What you get: - Competency map: decomposed skills with mastery definitions at each level - Evidence requirements: what counts as demonstration, under what conditions, with what consistency - Assessment instruments for each competency: task design, observation protocols, or portfolio criteria - Mastery threshold logic: how many demonstrations, at what quality, before a competency is awarded - Progression gating rules: which competencies must precede others and why - Assessor calibration guide: how to evaluate edge cases and borderline performances
Built for: corporate L&D teams, vocational training programs, higher education CBE programs, professional certification bodies, and instructional designers building mastery-based learning pathways.