When you hire an employee to work for your company, he must remain competent. An incompetent employee can slow down the company's overall productivity, as well as lower the morale of the workplace ...

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 ...

The first step in the assessment process is for a program or department to define their mission and learning goals. Assessment is an on-going process, and can be thought of as a cycle. A new program ...

A CDR is not just another technical document. It is a formal assessment tool used by Engineers Australia to analyse whether ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

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 ...

As an attending physician working with a student for a week, you receive a form that asks you to evaluate the student's fund of knowledge, procedural skills, professionalism, interest in learning, and ...