You've scoured the job listings, sent out dozens of resumes and finally got the call for an interview. While all interviews are designed to help managers get to know potential employees, some types of ...

Competency-based interviews (also called structured interviews) are interviews where the questions are designed to test one or more specific skills (competencies). Candidates are asked questions ...

In today's education system, you might see a new type of question in your exams– competency-based questions. Unlike traditional questions that just ask you to remember facts, these questions want you ...

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?

At best, so-called competency- and proficiency-based higher education is a world of good intentions and uncritical enthusiasms. At worst, it seems to be the fulfillment of conservative cost-cutting ...