Educational Benchmarking for Accelerated Learning and Improvement
Benchmarking is the practice of comparing performance and practices to peers and others with the goal of learning how to do something better, more efficiently and more effectively. Benchmarking is common place with people and organizations and even governments that are striving to improve. Successful athletes compare their techniques, coaches strive to learn from the successful teams, doctors share practices and businesses study their competitors. The Japanese learned how to make better copy machines by taking competitor’s equipment apart and learning how the machines were engineered. In fact learning from others is a major means of knowledge transfer and development.