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 ...

Core competencies are the key skills and abilities an individual or a company possesses. These include the knowledge and experience you bring to the job, the activities that bring the company the ...

There are many definitions of success. But to me, success in business means separation from the competition. And one of the best ways to do that is to develop core competencies. The concept of core ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...