When upskilling, how can we put the focus on learners applying their new skills in real-world settings? A competency-based approach could be the answer. Our new Certificate in Clinical Supervision, ...

“States Demand That Colleges Show How Well Their Students Learn” (The Chronicle, October 28) addresses the growing concern within higher education regarding effectively measuring student success and ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would the testing experience be like if schools allowed students to show what they know whenever they’re ready, in a variety of ways that suit them, and in ways that are instructionally useful?

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 ...

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 ...

CBSE unveils substantial changes to the assessment structure for classes XI and XII from 2024-25, prioritizing competency-based questions to enhance real-world application of knowledge.