Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Every recruiter and hiring manager knows it's best to seek candidates who align with the company's long-term objectives, but knowing and doing are two different things. Getting the right candidate the ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

Michelle Farber, RN, CIC, 2012 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, recently discussed the changing role of infection preventionists and APIC’s ...

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 ...

You’re at a cocktail party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m an automation professional,” you reply. “Oh, so you work with robots,” comes the response. Well, maybe you do work with ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...