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Download full textReimer, Judy – 1996
Work Keys provides a metric that translates skill requirements for individual jobs into levels of proficiency. It has been developed as a multifunctional program with the interactive components of Job Profiling, Instructional Support, Reporting, and Assessment. The assessment component contains applied mathematics, applied technology, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Job Skills, National Norms, Occupational Tests
McLarty, Joyce R.; And Others – 1996
The Work Keys (trademark) system of the American College Testing program has combined assessments of listening and writing into a single test administration. The Listening and Writing assessment uses independent scorings of the examinee's written responses to audiotaped prompts to assess both listening and writing skills separately. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, High School Students, High Schools, Listening Comprehension Tests
Peer reviewedBrennan, Robert L.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1995
Generalizability theory is used to examine the psychometric characteristics of the Listening and Writing Tests developed by American College Testing for its Work Keys program. Results with samples of 50 suggest the desirability of a minimum number of the tests' tape-recorded messages and the use of at least 2 raters. (SLD)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Error of Measurement, Generalizability Theory, Interaction
