This partnership will test and scale interactive learning methods using a variety of channels, including radio, television, laptops and cellphones.

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This lowers the cost per test, ensures that learning is retained, and maximizes the chances of the experimental regime outlasting individual sponsors and team leaders.

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Service and quality-control initiatives include more English-Spanish training for store workers, mystery shoppers assigned to put pleasant service to the test, and an "e-learning" program to update employees on new products and services more quickly.

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An individual's learning style is usually determined by a pencil-and-paper test--of which there are now more than 50 available, with titles like the Cognitive Style Index and the Learning Style Questionnaire.

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Unfortunately, for both students and the employers who would hire them, the increasing difficulty in securing the work experience necessary to demonstrate competency sans degree favors the less-rigorous test it and forget it model of competency-based learning.

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Hopefully, those graduates of its test-prep and education services will be as interested in learning for earning as is the company.

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The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently and getting better test scores to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students , so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.

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