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Garrigues, Sarah M. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Directors too often rely primarily on their hunches to guide them in employee selection. But what if their hunches are only 30 percent correct? Potentially, one bad hire could be responsible for a noticeable decrease in enrollment and, as a result, the school's net revenue. In this article, the author discusses the Competency-Based Behavioral…
Descriptors: Competence, Career Counseling, Interviews, Personnel Evaluation
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Gormally, Cara; Brickman, Peggy; Lutz, Mary – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
Life sciences faculty agree that developing scientific literacy is an integral part of undergraduate education and report that they teach these skills. However, few measures of scientific literacy are available to assess students' proficiency in using scientific literacy skills to solve scenarios in and beyond the undergraduate biology classroom.…
Descriptors: Testing, Biology, Undergraduate Study, Educational Change
Howard, Ann – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1983
The complexity of managerial abilities and motivation is displayed in the assessment center method, where judgments depend on a comprehensive package of such techniques as paper-and-pencil tests, interviews, simulations, and projective tests. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Administrators, Careers, Interviews
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Getzel, Elizabeth Evans; Thoma, Colleen A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This article describes the results of a series of focus group interviews conducted with postsecondary students with disabilities about the importance of self-determination in their success in those settings. Approximately 40% of the student participants identified a learning disability or attention deficit disorder as their primary disability. The…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Liles, Richard T.; Mustian, R. David – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
The authors present a rationale for developing core competencies for training and organizational development in extension. Core competencies are defined as "the basic knowledge, attitudes, skills, and observable behaviors that lead to excellence in the workplace." Competency-based models can be used to create an infrastructure that…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Competency Based Education, Systems Approach, Organizational Development
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McQuade, Eamonn; Maguire, Theresa – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: This paper aims to describe a research project that is addressing the employability of individuals in the higher-cost Irish economy. Design/methodology/approach: The Programme for University-Industry Interface (PUII) uses a community-of-practice methodology combined with academic research. Findings: A number of emerging enterprise models…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Communities of Practice, Minimum Competencies, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Eisner, Susan P. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2004
This paper presents a set of three integrative exercises created to help college students develop workplace skills through simulation. Interviewing, listening, providing feedback, setting goals, empowering, coaching, managing change, handling conflict, and making decisions are clustered and modeled at intervals that synthesize course learning.
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Workplace Learning, Integrated Activities, College Students