China on Thursday announced new measures to evaluate and assess the performance of local governments in terms of carbon ...

This course gives participants the tools to design globally focused instructional units based on performance assessments. The course will provide educators with a sample Performance Assessment Shell ...

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) ...

Six or seven years ago, when we were formalizing our approach to “Assessment for Learning” at the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE), we called it Quality Performance Assessment (QPA), meaning ...

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 ...

Man-in-the-Box is a true agility assessment consisting of two levels: capture the green box and capture the green 3. Capture the green 3 is designed to enhance the ...

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 ...

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 ...