Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The knowledge gap : rhetoric and evidence
  • Is there a gap between employer skill needs and the skills of the work force? / Harry J. Holzer
  • Skills and the economy : an employer context for understanding the school-to-work transition / Robert Zemsky
  • What is work? : rhetoric and ethnographic evidence
  • Should social skills be in the vocational curriculum? : evidence from the automotive repair field / Bonalyn Nelsen
  • Manufacturing the new worker : literate activities and working identities in a high-performance versus a traditionally organized workplace / Glynda Hull
  • Assessing assessment : what we know how to measure, what we need to know
  • Twenty-first century measures for twenty-first century work / Kenneth Pearlman
  • Postmodern test theory / Robert J. Mislevy
  • Caution flags
  • Legal restrictions on assessments / Dennis Parker
  • Assessment without adverse impact / Neal Schmitt
  • Visions of the school-to-work transition
  • What policy makers and experts see (and do not see) in school-to-work transitions / Larry Cuban
  • Getting to work : thoughts on the function and form of school-to-work transition / Lauren B. Resnich
  • Transitions in work and learning / Alan Lesgold.