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25 Jun 2019
Toolkit

Work Based Learning Measures Series

How can districts and schools measure and document employability skills and other career-ready knowledge students obtain from work-based learning experiences? Measuring student learning from work-based learning experiences gives students an opportunity to reflect on their work-based learning experiences and connect the knowledge and skills they’ve learned to future career goals. States, schools, and districts can use the data to improve the quality of work-based learning experiences for all students.

AIR's College and Career Readiness and Success Center has developed a series of five modules which highlight the key decision points to select and develop a work-based learning measure. After selecting a measure, subsequent modules support the development of portfolios, rubrics, employer feedback and evaluation, and student self-assessments to assess the quality of work-based learning opportunities

The modules are designed for a team of committed partners from a number of sectors—secondary and postsecondary education, labor, policy, and business and industry—to select a measure to assess student learning and understand best practices on how to develop that measure.

Learn more about each module and download the related materials >>

Module 1: Selecting Appropriate Measures introduces the various types of measures to assess students learning from work-based learning experiences and outline the key decision points state and district teams need to consider in order to select an appropriate measure.

Module 2: Developing Portfolios outlines the key decision points state and district teams need to consider when developing a portfolio to measure students learning from work-based learning experiences.

Module 3: Designing Rubrics outlines the key decision points state and district teams need to consider when developing a rubric to measure students learning from work-based learning experiences.

Module 4: Constructing Employer Feedback and Evaluation outlines the key decisions to develop employer feedback and evaluation to assess student learning from work-based learning.

Module 5: Creating Student Self-Assessments explores the benefits of student self-assessments for measuring work-based learning experiences and discusses the decision points needed to develop a student self-assessment.

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College and Career Readiness and Success Center

The College & Career Readiness & Success Center (CCRS Center) provides technical assistance support to states focused on ensuring all students graduate high school ready for college and career success. The mission of the Center is to build the capacity of states to effectively implement college and career ready initiatives such as career and technical education, work-based learning, career pathways, employability skills, and competency-based education.

Related Work

20 Oct 2018
Toolkit

Supporting Work-Based Learning Implementation: Self-Assessment of Intermediary Practices

Across the country, work-based learning (WBL) is increasingly emerging as an effective strategy for providing authentic opportunities for students to learn, develop, and demonstrate crucial career-readiness skills. The Self-Assessment of Intermediary Practices tool supports the development, improvement, and operationalization of state, regional, and district efforts to use intermediaries or to implement intermediary strategies that contribute to a comprehensive, high-quality WBL system.
Topic: 
Education, College and Career Readiness

Further Reading

  • Work-Based Learning Activity State Spotlight: Georgia State-Led Topical Conversations
  • Supporting Work-Based Learning Implementation: Self-Assessment of Intermediary Practices
  • Development of the Health Insurance Literacy Measure (HILM): Conceptualizing and Measuring Consumer Ability to Choose and Use Private Health Insurance
  • Self-Assessing Social and Emotional Instruction and Competencies: A Tool for Teachers
  • ESSA │Developing and Supporting Educators
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Susan Bowles Therriault

Managing Researcher

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College and Career Readiness

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