Grading in higher education has been based on a competitive/ranking model. As students become more vocation driven in their decision to attend college and as specific vocational domains become more performance centered, a new form of assessment is needed. This change has already taken place in departments of teacher education. A mastery learning, mastery orientation model is recommended as the model for assessment to be used in all areas of higher education.
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