This installment of NET Gain is a skill standards update. Skill Standards remain vital to education and workforce development. Updated resources and new sites and publications have increased the amount of information available. The NCRVE Skill Standards page (http://NCRVE.berkeley.edu/SkillsPage.html) has picked up on the continuing growth and includes the work of dozens of organizations involved in skill standards development and applications.
NCRVE resources
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/skillstand.html --
The page contains links to information about the 22 initial skill standards projects
sponsored by the U.S. departments of Education and Labor in 1993. In addition to
contact information for each project, the page contains links to the projects'
own online information and to the project descriptions that are stored in a
database at the Training Technology Resource Center.
Also in the Skill Standards page are links to relevant recent publications
from NCRVE, including Integrating Academic and Industry Skill Standards
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-1001/
and School-to-Work Policy Insights from Recent International Developments
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-950/,
which contains a chapter on European systems.
Training Technology Resource Center
www.ttrc.doleta.gov/skillstd.html --
This site has been redesigned to provide access to selected full text standards
as well as the profiles and links to the major skill standards sites. The TTRC
site also provides access to relevant legislation, international benchmarks,
existing practices and research.
The National Skill Standards Board
http://www.nssb.org/ --
With information about the board, current skill standards activities and a link
to the board's initiative with school-to-work (
http://www.nssb.org/init.html), this site covers a multitude of relevant
issues and research. There also is a literature database (containing
descriptions of publications with acquistion information), browsable by broad
topic or searchable by keyword.
SkillsNET
www.skillsnet.org/ --
At the SkillsNET home page you can get information on how to subscribe to the
SkillsNET e-mail discussion group. SkillsNET also has links to a number of sites
related to skill standards and other occupational, technical and vocational
topics.
SCANS/2000
http://infinia.wpmc.jhu.edu/ --
This site provides information on the interdisciplinary research group at the
Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies that is working on projects
related to school-to-work and education reform.
This "NET Gain" was compiled by David Carlson and Peter Seidman (NCRVE, University of California at Berkeley). An online version of "NET Gain" columns is available on the NCRVE World Wide Web server (http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/). Readers are encouraged to let the authors know about any changes in the resources listed, as well as about others they find useful.
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