A Competency Tracker, Not a Transcript

February 06, 2026 · Sal Darji

“Part of what obscures the value of a degree for students and employers is that the primary record a student gets of their time in college is a transcript. Transcripts are just lists of courses (whose names don’t provide much information about their content) and grades (that provide a blunt assessment of how students performed). Indeed, few people ever look at a graduate’s transcript, because the entries on it don’t say much about what that person can do.

The alternative is to build a record of student performance around the institution’s framework for durable skills that accumulates the evidence from the many assignments students have done that teach and assess these skills. This tracker provides students with a current snapshot of what they do (and do not) do well. The record itself links back to past assignments.”

Excerpt From “Higher education needs to change in order to survive the AI economy”

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