Businesses use several tools to assess the competency of their workers. Such instruments measure the ability to perform the job and ancillary skills such as spatial reasoning. Moreover, employers have ...

Assessing studentsâ clinical competencies using a competency assessment tool (CAT) is an essential part of nursing education. Assessors need to use CATs effectively to facilitate learning and students ...

Hansen and Sørensen describe the redesign of testing in courses offered by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA), which places “a greater emphasis on learning ...

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

A one hour consultation Connect you to resources including: a development plan for you to implement, advice for choosing or developing competency frameworks and competency assessment tools, and ...

Successful organizations may recruit, hire and retain good talent. Once the talent is on board, effective performance management processes must be in place to provide employees feedback on their ...

The previous chapter identifies eight competencies that the available research suggests are related to undergraduate persistence and success: (1) behaviors related to conscientiousness; (2) sense of ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...