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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
Nathan, Barry R. – 1995
While most organizations rely on cutting scores to screen job applicants, little research and few accepted methods exist to help practitioners identify cutting scores that will be job-related. This paper describes how the Work Keys system job analysis process was used to provide job-related, content-valid cutting scores. Using job analysis results…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Cutting Scores, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), High School Students
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
American 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
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
Hater, John J. – 1992
Work Keys (occupational tests developed by American College Testing) could support an employer's human resource function in a number of ways: (1) communicating to educators the skill requirements for an employer's particular jobs on a national basis; (2) providing students with a realistic preview of skills needed for jobs and an assessment of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Construct Validity, Content Validity
