Making Sense of Industry-Based Skill Standards

MDS-777

• Top of Document
• Executive Summary
  • Goals
  • Substantive Content
  • Governance
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Outline
  • Skill Standards and Certification in the Past and Present
  • The Sudden Emergence of Skill Standards as a National Issue
  • The Professionalization of Production Workers
• Models of Skill and Skill Certification
  • The Skill Components Model
  • The Professional Model
  • Skills and Certification in Craft Occupations
  • New Approaches--SCANS and Generic Skills
  • Problems with the Professional Model
  • Conclusion
• The Skill Standards Pilot Projects
  • The Form of the Standards
  • Categorization of Skill Standards in the Pilot Projects
  • Project Governance
  • Occupational/Job Analysis
• Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Goals and Evaluation
  • Substantive Content
  • Governance
• References
• Footnotes
• Appendices
  • Chart 1
  • Chart 2
  • Chart 3
  • Chart 4

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