June 1, 1992

Measurement of Workforce Readiness: Review of Theoretical Frameworks

Authors:
Harold F. O'Neil Jr., Keith Allred, and Eva L. Baker
The cry of American management for workers with greater skills has spawned many commissions, task forces and studies, including five studies reviewed in this report: * What Work Requires of Schools (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills); *Workplace Basics: The Essential Skills Employers Want (American Society for Training and Development); * Michigan Employability Skills Employer Survey (W. Mehrens, Michigan State University); * Basic and Expanded Basic Skills (New York State Education Department); and * High Schools and the Changing Workplace: The Employers’ View (National Academy of Sciences). The authors provide a synthesis and comparison of the five reports and describe a 14-step, methodological approach to measuring workforce readiness skills.
O’Neil, H. F. Jr., Allred, K., & Baker, E. L. (1992). Measurement of workforce readiness: Review of theoretical frameworks (CSE Report 343). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).|O’Neil, H. F. Jr., Allred, K., & Baker, E. L. (1992). Measurement of workforce readiness: Review of theoretical frameworks (CSE Report 343). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).
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