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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Teaching — and measuring — hard and soft skills are uniquely different. It’s far easier to teach and measure hard skills, and usually, ...

Project-based assessments are what education organizations ETS and the Carnegie Foundation are envisioning to prepare and measure students’ skills. Companies have long evaluated new employees by ...

A new report commissioned by NWEA revealed that parents, teachers and school leaders agree about the importance of measuring students' soft skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving and ...

Federal education law now requires one non-academic measure of school progress, which has led some districts to consider including students' social and emotional growth as a performance measure.

A new study claims the vast majority of Pennsylvania’s school districts aren’t doing a good job at measuring the skill levels of the students they’re awarding diplomas to. WHYY’s Scott Detrow has the ...

Schools should assess students on both “academic knowledge” and “nonacademic skills” —like teamwork, critical thinking, and creativity—parents and educators said in a new survey. But they offered ...

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.