A performance-based assessment evaluates employees on their output vs. their expected contribution to a business, explains Tsuru Kotaro of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. These ...

Performance assessments in the workplace do not exist solely for evaluating an employee's performance. Performance assessments also serve to establish and reinforce agreed-upon performance standards ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect job description for Paul Leather. He oversees state and local partnerships for the Center for Innovation and Education. Let’s get ...

The discussion during the workshop highlighted a number of key challenges that must be addressed when performance assessments are used for accountability in the federal adult education system: (1) ...

The number of students in the first year of studies has risen sharply. Marking hundreds of handwritten performance assessments manually is very time-consuming. That is why many lecturers now offer ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...

This section of the report summarizes the various suggestions for practical steps that could be taken in making performance assessments in adult education useful to educators and students, ...