Competency-based interview questions ask candidates to share an example from their past experience that illustrates a specific competency required for the job. The best answers are specific and ...

Small businesses often have a harder time attracting and hiring the best employees for specific jobs when they write traditional task-focused job descriptions in their want ads. Competency-based job ...

In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home in Bishop Hall Charter School. At Bishop Hall, students master skills at their own speed. Principal Chris ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As the first baccalaureate program of its kind in the nation, Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s transdisciplinary studies in technology degree offers a unique approach to ...

Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

Keystone College announced it is offering a new, competency-based Master of Business Administration degree online for the fall 2026 semester.

Paul LeBlanc certainly thinks so. He sees it as a realistic way to reverse the trend toward deepening socioeconomic inequality. Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No ...