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 ...

A new competency-mapping-based instructional model for health assessment education integrates global nursing competency frameworks into a structured, progressive pathway. Drawing on international ...

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 ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

Advanced nurse practitioners play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to patients attending the acute medical unit and must be highly skilled and competent. In the absence of national ...

Competence-based education, which is practice-oriented education, is the answer to the call for highly competent teachers. We would have experienced for ourselves and heard the experiences of others ...

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

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 ...