This paper discusses a fundamental problem in measuring the growth of knowledge and comparing the skills of people. New skills emerge that are not just more of the previously acquired skills.

We hear the term “soft skills” used often. In an evolving workplace, these hard-to-quantify skills are growing in importance. Employers need to get serious about finding and gauging job candidates ...

A new report commissioned by NWEA revealed that parents, teachers and school leaders agree about the importance of measuring students' soft skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving and ...

Project-based assessments are what education organizations ETS and the Carnegie Foundation are envisioning to prepare and measure students’ skills. Companies have long evaluated new employees by ...

When a 9th grader in Salt Lake City—let’s call him Arnoldo—refused to do any work in his English class, his teachers weren’t finding a way to connect with him. The school’s social-emotional-learning ...

When a CISO joins a new company, they will typically inherit a sizeable security stack – a portfolio of solutions that grows with the arrival of every subsequent CISO. Indeed, a recent report found ...

This post is by Laura S. Hamilton, a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Brian M. Stecher, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and associate director of RAND Education. Recent ...

Post-graduate physician training, known as residency, develops skills and expertise within a medical specialty. During five to seven years of surgical training, medical school professors determine the ...

Federal education law now requires one non-academic measure of school progress, which has led some districts to consider including students' social and emotional growth as a performance measure.

In my last post, I discussed the nature of engaging the critical thinking (CT) process and made mention of individuals who draw a conclusion and wind up being correct. But, just because they’re right ...