Teaching — and measuring — hard and soft skills are uniquely different. It's far easier to teach and measure hard skills, and usually, teachers teach hard skills while trainers train soft skills.

When a 9th grader in Salt Lake City—let’s call him Arnoldo—refused to do any work in his English class, his teachers weren’t finding a way to connect with him. The school’s social-emotional-learning ...

This paper discusses a fundamental problem in measuring the growth of knowledge and comparing the skills of people. New skills emerge that are not just more of the previously acquired skills.

NEW YORK, Feb. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Council for Aid to Education, Inc. (CAE), a nonprofit developer of performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ ...

Jordan Schiesser scrunched his nose and rubbed his forehead before estimating Friday that nine kindergartners equal 999 feet in length. On “Measurement Day” at Pinckney School, staff from Lawrence ...

We hear the term “soft skills” used often. In an evolving workplace, these hard-to-quantify skills are growing in importance. Employers need to get serious about finding and gauging job candidates ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud Academy, the leading enterprise cloud training platform, today announced the launch of an end-to-end suite designed to measure cloud skills, assess training ...