Linking School and Work Roles for Standards

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.

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.

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)

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Linking School and Work Roles for Standards and Assessment

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