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Peer reviewedStientjes, Marcia K. – International Journal of Listening, 1998
Compares video and audio stimuli for listening assessment as well as multiple choice and constructed response modes, using modifications of the ACT Work Keys Listening and Writing assessment and the ACT Work Keys Listening for Understanding prototype. Confirms that examinees do less well on constructed response than on multiple choice responses.…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Constructed Response, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Download full textAmerican Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1997
CASAS (Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System) and ACT (American College Testing) have separately developed systems to identify the skills needed in the workplace. A research project studied the relationship between CASAS' Workforce Learning Systems (WLS) and ACT's Work Keys to determine how the systems could be linked to support…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods
O'Neil, Harold F., Jr., Ed. – 1997
This book, which is intended for professionals in the assessment/evaluation/measurement, vocational and technical education, and educational psychology communities, contains 16 papers examining specifications of work force competencies and assessment of competencies. The following papers are included: "Review of Workforce Readiness…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Graduates, Competence, Competency Based Education
