Darla K. Deardorff, Ed.D. Editor’s Note: Many educators struggle with how to assess global competence. Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Affiliated Faculty at Duke University, shares four ways to get started, ...

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 ...

Competence is more than possessing the knowledge or psychomotor skills necessary to perform a specific task. For nurses, competence means the caregiver integrates knowledge, skills and personal ...

Human resources management in small businesses can be highly structured as in large organizations, or less structured to permit flexibility in workforce planning, staffing and HR control over the ...

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 ...

Faced with stagnating student achievement, the 10,500-student Adams 50 district in Westminster, Colo., launched an improvement initiative in 2008 that eliminated old notions of grade-level progression ...

In the UK, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit and retain qualified occupational health (OH) nurses. Between 1999 and 2001, it was estimated that only 250 nurses would qualify with a ...

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 ...

Nashville -- The six prospective students came into the assessment center cold, with no clue what to expect. They sat around a rectangular table. Three behavioral assessors sat at another table across ...