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 ...

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 ...

Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...

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 ...

As part of an effort to ensure that security practitioners have the skills necessary to meet the demands of an ever-evolving threat landscape, the ASIS Foundation teamed up with the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leading correctional healthcare company, NaphCare, announced it will present a symposium-style seminar at the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), held March ...