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3 (more) Ways to Improve Your Maritime Assessments

Feb 3, 2016 Murray Goldberg 0 Assessment The following post is part of a series of articles on maritime assessments originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional (found here). We have decided to re-post the entire series based on reader feedback.   Introduction If you have been following along, this is the conclusion of the series on officer [...] READ MORE

3 Tips for Reliable and Valid Assessment in the Maritime

Jan 20, 2016 Murray Goldberg 0 Assessment Photo above taken by Dave Crosby / CC BY 2.0 The following post is part of a series of articles originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional (found here). We have decided to re-post the entire series based on reader feedback.   Introduction If you have been following along, this is the fifth [...] READ MORE

Assessing Attitude: An Important, but Rarely Measured Mariner Quality

Jan 6, 2016 Murray Goldberg 1 Assessment The following post is part of a series of articles originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional (found here). We have decided to re-post the entire series based on reader feedback.   Introduction This is a continuation of a series of articles on assessment in the maritime industry, the previous article [...] READ MORE

Assessment in the Maritime – Skills Versus Knowledge

Dec 16, 2015 Murray Goldberg 1 Assessment The following post is part of a series of articles originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional (found here). We have decided to re-post the entire series based on reader feedback.   Introduction This is a continuation of a series of articles on assessment in the maritime industry, the previous article can [...] READ MORE

What is Training: A look at different perspectives

Dec 2, 2015 Murray Goldberg 0 Maritime Training, Mentorship Photo above taken by Liz Novak / CC BY 2.0 Introduction I recently returned from the Western Region conference of the Passenger Vessel Association where I gave a presentation on the growth of eLearning in the maritime industry. It was a fantastic conference, and the PVA is an excellent association (which I recommend [...] READ MORE

The Basics of Assessments and How to Improve Them

Nov 18, 2015 Murray Goldberg 0 Assessment, Maritime Training The following post is part of a series of articles originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional (found here). We have decided to re-post the entire series based on reader feedback.   Introduction We have all seen candidates who “test well” but perform poorly. We’ve also seen candidates who have trouble [...] READ MORE