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Transitions in work and learning : implications for assessment : papers and proceedings / Alan Lesgold, Michael J. Feuer, and Allison M. Black, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vocational evaluation--United States.
- Vocational evaluation.
- School-to-work transition--United States.
- School-to-work transition.
- Vocational education--United States.
- Vocational education.
- Occupational training--United States.
- Occupational training.
- Labor market--United States.
- Labor market.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The dramatic shift in the American labor market away from manufacturing and the growing gap in earnings between high school and college graduates have contributed to a sense of alarm about the capacity of the nation's schools to supply adequately skilled graduates to the work force. The role that schools can or should play in preparing people to enter the world of work is hotly debated. In an effort to nurture the important and ongoing national dialogue on these issues, the Board on Testing and Assessment asked researchers and policymakers to engage in an interdisciplinary review and discussion of available data and implications for assessment policy. Transitions in Work and Learning considers the role of assessment in facilitating improved labor market transitions and life-long learning of American workers. It addresses the apparent mismatch between skill requirements of high-performance workplaces and skills acquired by students in school, the validity of existing assessment technologies to determine skills and competencies of persons entering various occupations, and ethical and legal issues in the implementation of new testing and certification programs. The book also examines the role of assessment in determining needed skills; developing ongoing education and training; and providing information to employers, prospective workers, and schools.
- Contents:
- The knowledge gap : rhetoric and evidence
- Is there a gap between employer skill needs and the skills of the work force?/ Harry J. Holzer
- Skills and the economy : an employer context for understanding the school-to-work transition/ Robert Zemsky
- What is work? : rhetoric and ethnographic evidence
- Should social skills be in the vocational curriculum? : evidence from the automotive repair field/ Bonalyn Nelsen
- Manufacturing the new worker : literate activities and working identities in a high-performance versus a traditionally organized workplace/ Glynda Hull
- Assessing assessment : what we know how to measure, what we need to know
- Twenty-first century measures for twenty-first century work/ Kenneth Pearlman
- Postmodern test theory/ Robert J. Mislevy
- Caution flags
- Legal restrictions on assessments/ Dennis Parker
- Assessment without adverse impact/ Neal Schmitt
- Visions of the school-to-work transition
- What policy makers and experts see (and do not see) in school-to-work transitions/ Larry Cuban
- Getting to work : thoughts on the function and form of school-to-work transition/ Lauren B. Resnich
- Transitions in work and learning/ Alan Lesgold.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held in March 1996.
- "Board on Testing and Assessment, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612082160
- 9780309174664
- 030917466X
- 9781282082168
- 1282082167
- 9780309518406
- 0309518407
- 9780585023113
- 0585023115
- OCLC:
- 923257792
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