Competency-Based Education Survey
measuring how competency-based education feels in real classrooms
Competency-based education (CBE) organizes teaching and grading around what students can actually do and understand, not how much time they’ve spent in class. Students advance when they demonstrate mastery, rather than when a term ends.
As districts pilot CBE, leaders need more than a theory: they need to know how shifts in instruction, grading, and classroom culture are affecting real teachers and students. Basis’ research gives EPIC and MSU concrete evidence on whether CBE practices are truly showing up in classrooms, and how student and educator perceptions of those changes evolve over time.
Understanding Impact
To measure the impact of competency-based education, Basis
- partnered with EPIC to survey principals, teachers, and students across seven districts .
- collaborated on survey design, consent and response-rate strategies, and administration.
- managed tracking and data entry so changes in perceptions and implementation could be measured over time.
- provided survey data that feed into larger implementation study of CBE at MSU.