Increasingly, companies are dropping four-year degree requirements in job postings, favoring skill-based requirements--such as communication and writing--instead. These types of nonacademic "soft skills" are viewed as essential for employment--employers consistently cite these abilities as among the most valuable in job applicants, yet…

Education leaders across the country confront a growing challenge: too many students are not college ready when they leave high school. Although indicators exist to identify students at risk of dropping out of high school, few indicators of students' college readiness are currently in place, and few districts have linked indicators to practices…

The Council of Chief State School Officers' "Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate the Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities" was first developed to establish guidelines for states to use for the selection, administration, and evaluation of accommodations for…

Intended for college and university admissions officers, faculty, and administration, the booklet presents an overview of learning disabilities (LD) and the implications of LD on postsecondary services. A definition of LD is given, followed by a list of typical characteristics of LD adults. Characteristics of a model comprehensive college LD…

Article described a project enabling housewives to learn while at home. Program was evaluated for its criteria relevance. (RK)

Presents a four-phase model system of evaluation activities that are important to mainstreaming special needs learners into regular vocational and technical education programs. (Editor)

Describes a nursing program's four-step process in the development of, and the results of using, a peer review system by faculty members for evaluating their own teaching performance. (TA)

This document discusses the role of assessment within corporate colleges within the further education system in Britain. It is intended to support curriculum managers who are currently implementing the various post-16 qualification systems for students within further education. The publication is divided into two sections. Section 1 analyzes the…

This study is a background paper aiming to provide a review of current practice in the assessment of students in further education who have special educational needs, in particular those students with moderate learning difficulties. The study examines the content, method, and aims of assessment and its relationship to the course curriculum. It…

Guidelines for implementing comprehensive career development for special needs learners are presented. They include review and evaluation of curricula for appropriateness, determination of the learner's current stage of career development, program planning, integration of career development opportunities, ongoing program implementation assistance,…

Background information and guidelines are provided for the development of cooperative education programs for real estate industry personnel. The first section outlines the operation of cooperative education programs and presents two organizational plans: the alternating plan, where students attend class full-time and work full-time during…

This guidebook was developed to help businesses provide high-quality worksite learning experiences for students. It combines experiential knowledge from experts with that of mentoring programs across the country to reduce the task of planning and implementing quality worksite learning experiences to a logical process. The book offers guidance for…

This bulletin is the sixth in a series that provides information on a collaborative project known as MainFrame to develop youth training programs in Great Britain. It describes the assessment procedures used in the youth training programs and examines project progress toward its main objective--the development of a unit credit transfer system--and…

This report presents many of the typical questions with which college deans of instruction will be confronted in planning a competency-based technical education (CBTE) system. Under each of 10 major questions that explore the issues of CBTE, a number of more specific questions are listed. The 10 major questions concern the overall approach,…

This manual provides practical advice for voluntary partnerships that, since 1994, are part of the effort to build a voluntary national system of skill standards, assessment, and certification. Intended to be used with guidance from the National Skill Standards Board, it is designed for the voluntary partnerships that have completed the standards…