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 ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two major players in K–12 education launched a joint effort last month to develop new assessments that could help shift schools’ focus away from traditional “seat time” requirements and toward more ...

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 ...

Assessing staff competencies is helpful in making employment decisions, such as promotions, retention and termination. Rating employee skill sets also can be useful in assigning work, creating work ...

A competency assessment framework for advanced nurse practitioners was developed for an acute medical unit, and assessed by advanced nurse practitioners and consultants Abstract Advanced nurse ...

However, a glaring mismatch persists. While curriculum and pedagogy have shifted toward competencies and real-world application of skills, but assessment remains stuck in the past. Unit tests and ...

Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour ...

The increasing demand for CBSE to transition from traditional score-based assessments to competency-based evaluations is underscored by key findings from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), ...