From grades to competencies: implementing CBA in Nursing Education
As nursing programs move toward competency-based assessment, the challenge is no longer why to change, but how to design assessment systems that produce clear, observable and defensible evidence of practice readiness across courses, simulations and clinical placements.
Join this practical webinar to see how nursing programs translate program-level competencies into concrete rubrics, workflows and reporting structures that support consistent assessment, early intervention and longitudinal insight into student development.
What you'll learn
- Strengthen quality & reporting: Generate accreditation-ready evidence while improving curriculum, without added assessment burden
- Turn competencies into practice: Translate nursing competencies into shared rubrics and assignments across classroom, simulation, and clinical settings
- Build evidence over time: Replace isolated grades with structured, programmatic evidence for consistent competency judgments
- Assess real-world skills: Connect outcomes to authentic activities using ready-to-use templates, no full course redesign needed
- Track student progress: Monitor competency development longitudinally to identify gaps early and support targeted coaching
Meet our speakers
Andy Toshniwal is an Account Executive at FeedbackFruits, supporting higher education partners across the US for the past five years. His work focuses on learning outcomes and programmatic assessment, helping institutions design measurable, observable evidence of practice readiness across courses and clinical contexts. He has presented at the Student Learning Outcomes Symposium for California Colleges and with partners at North Carolina education conferences, and recently consulted with two US nursing institutions on rubric to domain alignment, authentic assessment design, and competency mapping.
Maria Uglvig is a Product Manager at FeedbackFruits. Her path to EdTech started when she was a third-culture kid living in multicultural contexts and took shape when she taught and joined the educational committee at Groningen University. Backed by a pedagogy background, Maria is on a mission to transform education, seeking the power of technology to foster student autonomy, innovate holistic assessment methods, and achieve equity in learning environments.
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William Shay holds a PhD in sociology with over 30 years of academic affairs experience as a senior executive across multiple public and private higher education institutions. At present, he serves as Sr. Vice Provost at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in south central Los Angeles, the only historically Black college or university west of east Texas. Dr. Shay has lead responsibility for academic personnel and academic program administration, and functions as a chief accreditation officer for the university, including serving since 2012 as Accreditation Liaison Officer to the WASC Senior College and University Commission. He completed the regional accreditation agency Assessment Leadership Academy (2015-16) and is the current campus lead for ACUE faculty development on effective practice frameworks, in partnership and with funding from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF).
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