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Transitions in work and learning : implications for assessment

Title
  1. Transitions in work and learning : implications for assessment / Alan Lesgold, Michael J. Feuer, and Allison M. Black, editors.
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  1. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Lesgold, Alan M.
  2. Feuer, Michael J.
  3. Black, Allison M.
  4. National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Board on Testing and Assessment.
Description
  1. viii, 283 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. School-to-work transition > United States
  2. Vocational education > United States
  3. Occupational training > United States
  4. Labor market > United States
  5. Vocational evaluation > United States
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction / Michael J. Feuer and Richard J. Shavelson -- 2. Is There a Gap Between Employer Skill Needs and the Skills of the Work Force? / Harry J. Holzer -- 3. Skills and the Economy: An Employer Context for Understanding the School-to-Work Transition / Robert Zemsky -- 4. Should Social Skills Bc in the Vocational Curriculum? Evidence from the Automotive Repair Field / Bonalyn Nelsen -- 5. Manufacturing the New Worker: Literate Activities and Working Identities in a High-Performance Versus a Traditionally Organized Workplace / Glynda Hull -- 6. Twenty-First Century Measures for Twenty-First Century Work / Kenneth Pearlman -- 7. Postmodern Test Theory / Robert J. Mislevy -- 8. Legal Restrictions on Assessments / Dennis Parker -- 9. Assessment Without Adverse Impact / Neal Schmitt -- 10. What Policy Makers and Experts See (and Do Not See) in School-to-Work Transitions / Larry Cuban --
  2. 11. Getting to Work: Thoughts on the Function and Form of the School-to-Work Transition / Lauren B. Resnick -- 12. Transitions in Work and Learning / Alan Lesgold -- Appendix. Conference Agenda.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Papers presented at a conference in March 1996.
  2. "Board on Testing and Assessment, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.