Transitions in work and learning
Subtitle: implications for assessment : papers and proceedings
By: Alan Lesgold, Michael J. Feuer, and Allison M. Black, editors.
Contributors: Lesgold, Alan M.; Feuer, Michael J.; Black, Allison M.; National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Board on Testing and Assessment.
Publisher: National Academy Press; National Academies Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Vocational evaluation -- United States.; School-to-work transition -- United States.; Vocational education -- United States.; Occupational training -- United States.; Labor market -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers presented at a conference held in March 1996.
"Board on Testing and Assessment, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
Table of contents: title: The knowledge gap : rhetoric and evidence; title: Is there a gap between employer skill needs and the skills of the work force? / Harry J. Holzer; title: Skills and the economy : an employer context for understanding the school-to-work transition / Robert Zemsky; title: What is work? : rhetoric and ethnographic evidence; title: Should social skills be in the vocational curriculum? : evidence from the automotive repair field / Bonalyn Nelsen; title: Manufacturing the new worker : literate activities and working identities in a high-performance versus a traditionally organized workplace / Glynda Hull; title: Assessing assessment : what we know how to measure, what we need to know; title: Twenty-first century measures for twenty-first century work / Kenneth Pearlman; title: Postmodern test theory / Robert J. Mislevy; title: Caution flags; title: Legal restrictions on assessments / Dennis Parker; title: Assessment without adverse impact / Neal Schmitt; title: Visions of the school-to-work transition; title: What policy makers and experts see (and do not see) in school-to-work transitions / Larry Cuban; title: Getting to work : thoughts on the function and form of school-to-work transition / Lauren B. Resnich; title: Transitions in work and learning / Alan Lesgold.