Linking School and Work
Roles for Standards and Assessment
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 25. October 1995
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-0-7879-0165-3 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that a key strategy for improving the effectiveness of schools is to set standards for what students should be able to do based on the skills required for well-paying Jobs.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
945 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-0165-3 (9780787901653)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
LAUREN B. RESNICK is professor and director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. JOHN G. WIRT is a senior analyst in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
Content
Introduction and Overview
Part One: Structure of an Education System for Linking School and Work
1. Certifying Competence in a School-to-Work System(Marc Tucker)
2. Policy Choices in the Assessment of Work Readiness: Strategy and Structure(Richard Elmore)
3. Signaling the Competencies of High School Students to Employers(John Bishop)
4. A School-to-Work Transition System: The Role of Standards and Assessments(Paul Barton)
Part Two: Linking Assessment and Instruction
5. Quality Control for Educating a Smart Workforce(Alan Lesgold)
6. Assessment Student Performance: Three Different Views(John Frederiksen)
7. A School-Based Strategy for Achieving and Assessing Work-Readiness Skills(Henry Braun)
Part Three: Technical Requirements for New Forms of Assessment
8. Work Readiness Assessment: Questions of Validity(Robert Linn)
9. Evaluation of Performance Assessments for Work Readiness(Robert Guion)
10. Open-Ended Exercises in Large-Scale Educational Assessment(R. Darrel Bock)
Part Four: Lessons from Abroad
11. New Directions in the Assessment of High School Achievement: Cross-National Perspectives(Margaret Vickers)
12. The Role of Assessment in Education for High Performance Work: Lessons from Denmark and Great Britain(Davis Jenkins)
Part One: Structure of an Education System for Linking School and Work
1. Certifying Competence in a School-to-Work System(Marc Tucker)
2. Policy Choices in the Assessment of Work Readiness: Strategy and Structure(Richard Elmore)
3. Signaling the Competencies of High School Students to Employers(John Bishop)
4. A School-to-Work Transition System: The Role of Standards and Assessments(Paul Barton)
Part Two: Linking Assessment and Instruction
5. Quality Control for Educating a Smart Workforce(Alan Lesgold)
6. Assessment Student Performance: Three Different Views(John Frederiksen)
7. A School-Based Strategy for Achieving and Assessing Work-Readiness Skills(Henry Braun)
Part Three: Technical Requirements for New Forms of Assessment
8. Work Readiness Assessment: Questions of Validity(Robert Linn)
9. Evaluation of Performance Assessments for Work Readiness(Robert Guion)
10. Open-Ended Exercises in Large-Scale Educational Assessment(R. Darrel Bock)
Part Four: Lessons from Abroad
11. New Directions in the Assessment of High School Achievement: Cross-National Perspectives(Margaret Vickers)
12. The Role of Assessment in Education for High Performance Work: Lessons from Denmark and Great Britain(Davis Jenkins)