Competencies denote the skills and behaviors needed to demonstrate mastery of a skill at a particular level. In order to provide quality organizational training and education programs, personnel ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

James Stiles, CSP, explained that the development of Johnson & Johnson's "global health and safety competency model" has been driven by a longstanding upper-management mandate that the company's most ...

Competency-based education has become the norm for professional graduate degree programs. This paper describes the development, implementation, and ongoing validation of a competency model designed ...

NASHVILLE -- Mart Sessler has gone far with his associate degree. He worked his way up to vice president of information systems at a large insurance provider. But after 25 years in his field, Sessler ...

You'll often hear that a college student's most valuable resources are time and money. Well, one area institution is offering coursework that frees up a student's time to earn more money. Rasmussen ...

GeoLearning, Inc., a leading developer of e-learning systems and Web-based training solutions, has unveiled MyPlan, a Web-based competency management tool that enables organizations to better match ...

For the last five years, Gallup has surveyed a national sampling of 75,000 college graduates to understand their post-college "well-being and workplace engagement." The survey asks questions related ...

New Hampshire schools have retired a century old education standard, replacing it with a new performance-based learning model. The report details the case studies of two New Hampshire high schools ...

Seventeen higher-education institutions have responded to the U.S. Department of Education’s call last month for ideas in which “experimental sites” could test innovative ways to reduce college costs, ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...