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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.

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• Introduction and Overview
• Part 1 Structure of an Education System for Linking School and Work
• 1 Certifying Competence in a School-to-Work System
• 2 Policy Choices in the Assessment of Work Readiness: Strategy and Structure
• 3 Signaling the Competencies of High School Students to Employers
• 4 A School-to-Work Transition System: The Role of Standards and Assessments
• Part 2 Linking Assessment and Instruction
• 5 Quality Control for Educating a Smart Workforce
• 6 Assessment Student Performance: Three Different Views
• 7 A School-Based Strategy for Achieving and Assessing Work-Readiness Skills
• Part 3 Technical Requirements for New Forms of Assessment
• 8 Work Readiness Assessment: Questions of Validity
• 9 Evaluation of Performance Assessments for Work Readiness
• 10 Open-Ended Exercises in Large-Scale Educational Assessment
• Part 4 Lessons from Abroad
• 11 New Directions in the Assessment of High School Achievement: Cross-National Perspectives
• 12 The Role of Assessment in Education for High Performance Work: Lessons from Denmark and Great Britain

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

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.