Competency framework

It’s time to retire Bloom’s taxonomy.  Originally published in 1956, before personal computers, the internet and smart phones — not to mention a contemporary understanding of the [...]

We regularly encounter curriculum that is engaging, creative and effective, followed by… a multiple choice quiz.  What is there about assessment that seems to be off-limits to [...]

How can we build a frontline healthcare workforce that meets the needs of a changing population, offers opportunities for career advancement and family sustaining wages, and better represents the [...]

I cringe a little when I hear the phrase, much bandied about these days: “don’t waste a good crisis.” It seems altogether too crass, too flippant for the painful times we are living in, now [...]

Let’s begin with a full confession:  we are in the competency business, and yet recently found ourselves asking each other: “do you know what people actually mean by ‘competency [...]