“Assessment” and “accountability” are the current buzzwords in education. In an ideal world, evaluation would be unnecessary. Socrates never gave grades. But in our imperfect world, mechanisms of ...

Applying for jobs can be a difficult and frustrating experience: you’re putting forward your qualifications to be judged by a prospective employer. We all want to be treated fairly. We want our ...

Theodore K. Rabb writes that in an ideal world, evaluation would be unnecessary. After all, he says, Socrates never gave grades. But assessment is here to stay, the professor emeritus of history at ...

Anyone involved in the assessment and evaluation of talent will at some point have to address the specter of “Moneyball.” Moneyball was Michael Lewis’s story (book then movie) about Billy Beane’s ...

Although family history has long been recognized as an important cardiovascular risk factor, usual methods to assess risk have not incorporated the family history in a rigorous manner. A new study ...