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 ...

A new proposal addresses “inflated” evaluations for federal employees and the failure to “materially differentiate” between performance levels, OPM said.

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Many advocates have bemoaned the focus on multiple-choice testing that has grown since the advent of No Child Left Behind. They often argue for more meaningful assessments, ones that include more ...

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 ...

Across the country, educators and policy makers are searching for ways to develop and implement innovative assessment programs to address accountability requirements and to reform instruction. As both ...

This post is by Ace Parsi, the Personalized Learning Partnership Manager for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and Susan Lyons, an associate at the National Center for the Improvement of ...

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) ...

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The Workforce Investment Act (WIA), enacted by Congress in 1998, requires states to establish a comprehensive accountability system for adult education programs. The WIA mandates that states must ...