How do you Design a System of Assessment in a Mastery-based Environment?

This is part of a set of articles that 2Revolutions developed for Mastery Assessment Week to feature some of the best and most applicable tools and courses from their InspirED platform, a social learning platform featuring a curated set of high-quality, free/open content resources to support educators in honing their educational practice.

In a mastery-based system, you need to be able to tell when a learner has reached competency. How much evidence does a learner need to provide? What kinds of evidence? How do you collect evidence and monitor a student’s progress toward mastery?


Body of Evidence addresses these questions and can be used by an educator or a team to begin to develop a system for assessing mastery.