In Rasmussen's Empowered Learning (CBE) courses, your result comes from demonstrating skills, not from hours in a classroom. The assessments are project-based and modeled on real work, and each is judged against the competencies it targets: you either demonstrate them or you have not yet. A not-yet is not a fail — it is feedback pointing at the specific competency that is still short, so you revise and resubmit. The practical implication: read the competency criteria before you start, because in CBE the criteria are the assignment.
How competency is judged
CBE assessments ask you to show a skill in a project that reflects real work, and they are judged against the specific competencies listed for that course. It is not about effort or time; it is whether the work demonstrates the named competency. That makes the competency list the single most important thing to read.
What a not-yet result means
Because CBE measures demonstration, a piece that falls short is marked not yet rather than simply failed. The feedback identifies which competency is not yet evidenced and why, and you revise that part and resubmit. Treat it exactly like a targeted revision: fix the named gap, not the whole project.
Read the criteria before you build
The efficient path through a competency assessment is to start from its criteria. Map what you plan to submit to each competency, make sure every one is clearly evidenced, and you avoid the most common not-yet: strong work that never explicitly demonstrates a required competency.
Where a tutor fits
We help you build competency assessments that demonstrate every criterion the first time, and when something comes back not-yet, turn the feedback into a precise revision so the resubmission clears it.
Sources and verification
Facts on this page come from official sources; details change, so confirm the current version with Rasmussen:
- www.rasmussen.edu: Rasmussen University's official site
- Rasmussen student experience: official pages on Empowered Learning and the classroom
- www.hlcommission.org: Higher Learning Commission, Rasmussen's institutional accreditor
- apastyle.apa.org: APA Style, the standard for written work