(A performance assessment, for instance, may be one element of a competency-based education program.) Proficiency-based or competency-based learning: These terms are interchangeable.

In some states, the work these four teachers were doing to engage their students in authentic opportunities for applying their knowledge through performance assessment is an essential element of ...

One example of an authentic example developed by the Virginia Consortium of Social Studies Specialists and College Educators asks students to pretend they are living in 1910, during industrialization.