Linking School and Work

Roles for Standards and Assessment

Lauren B. Resnick, John G. Wirt (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

492 Seiten

1995
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7879-0165-3 (ISBN)

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This text takes the view that a key strategy for improving school effectiveness is to set standards for student achievement based on the skills required for successful careers. It also examines forms of assessment that evaluate student performance in the context of real problems and situations.

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)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.10.1995
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	742 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-7879-0165-2 / 0787901652
ISBN-13	978-0-7879-0165-3 / 9780787901653
Zustand	Neuware