Best practice in curriculum development and implementation requires that discipline-based standards or requirements embody both curricular and programme scopes and sequences. Ensuring these are present and aligned in course/programme content, activities and assessments to support student success requires formalised and systematised review and…

The appropriateness of the Part I examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners to evaluate second-year curricular performance of students at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine was examined. The school used the results in making policy-changing decisions. (Author/LBH)

The Competency Based Learning (CBL) Project at Case Western Reserve University is both an inquiry into the nature of professional competence and competence development in the Applied Behavioral Sciences and a pilot innovation and evaluation project in the Ph.D. and Master's programs of the Department of Organizational Behavior. The initial task…