'Work Keys' Job-Skills Assessment Finally Catching On
Four years after the Work Keys job-skills test was put on the market, it is just now beginning to reach its potential for linking students' career goals with employers' needs.
Work Keys, a product of the ACT Inc. testing company, is being used widely in four states and a smattering of cities elsewhere. The number of people who took the test jumped 41 percent last year. And it just received its strongest endorsement to date from a national education association.
The Reston, Va.-based National Association of Secondary School Principals last month made three of the eight Work Keys assessments a requirement for students posting their records on a new on-line job service called SCRIBE. ( "NASSP To Offer On-Line Job Service for Students," ...
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