John M. O'Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. When the job market turns into more of an employee's market, shortcuts ...

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 ...

As a manager, employee performance and coaching conversations can be scary. In addition to providing constructive criticism and feedback (which is tough enough), you must also be prepared to provide ...

Three years ago, CU Boulder announced its first performance-based degree on Coursera, a master of science in electrical engineering (M.S.-E.E.). This degree removed applications entirely. Any students ...

The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...