Linking school and work : roles for standards and assessment / Lauren B. Resnick, John G. Wirt, editors.

Other author Resnick, Lauren B.
Other author Wirt, John G.
Other author United States. Department of Labor. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSan Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, ©1996.
Descriptionxxiii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Linking school and work. The changing workplace : new challenges for education policy and practice / Lauren B. Resnick and John G. Wirt -- Standards-based education for workplace readiness. Skills standards, qualifications systems, and the American workforce / Marc S. Tucker -- Policy choices in the assessment of work readiness : strategy and structure / Richard F. Elmore -- Signaling the competencies of high school students to employers / John H. Bishop -- A school-to-work transition system : the role of standards and assessments / Paul E. Barton -- Linking assessment and instruction. Quality control for educating a smart workforce / Alan Lesgold -- Designing an assessment system for the future workplace / John R. Frederiksen and Allan Collins -- A school-based strategy for achieving and assessing work-readiness skills / Henry I. Braun.
Contents Technical requirements for new forms of assessment. Work readiness assessment : questions of validity / Robert L. Linn -- Evaluation of performance tests for work readiness / Robert M. Guion -- Open-ended excercises in large-scale educational assessment / R. Darrell Bock -- Lessons from abroad. New directions in the assessment of high school achievement : cross-national perspectives / Margaret Vickers -- The role of assessment in educating for high performance work : lessons from Denmark and Britain / Davis Jenkins.
Local noteLittle-299912--305131005630R
General notePapers commissioned by the SCANS commission.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 95037812
ISBN0787901652 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks LC1037.5 .L55 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold