Equal footing in the workplace is an important goal because women bring so much to the table -- skills, competencies, ideas, expertise, and not the least important, the experiences they've had rising through the ranks, which differs so significantly from men.
(1) the inclusion of an Enhanced Writing Test that will measure students' ability to evaluate multiple perspectives on a complex issue using reasoning, knowledge, and experience and (2) there will be new Writing scores, which will be based on four areas of writing competency: ideas and analysis, development and support, organization, and language use.
These professors brought with them new competencies and ideas as well as contacts with federal funding agencies such as FINEP.
Many of the returning postdocs "have good competency, smart ideas and can readily join hot research areas," says Zhao.
Huge amounts of money have once again enabled entrenched political interests to prevail over character, competency and ideas, and the country is the poorer for it.
Research collaboration is a key mechanism for linking distributed knowledge and competencies into novel ideas and research venues.
Her panel rolled out a major reform proposal, one that eventually called for required teacher competency testing — an idea abhorrent to the teachers' unions.
In the absence of an official list of competencies, ask for ideas from your manager or your colleagues about the skills that would be most vital for you to develop.
Developing human capital requires creating and cultivating environments in which human beings can rapidly learn and apply new ideas, competencies, skills, behaviors and attitudes.
As we move further along into the twenty-first century, to cater to just-in-time learning, we should perhaps revisit the idea competency-based teacher education model (Arends et al., 1971) where science teachers can choose to enroll in courses where they perceive a personal need.
