Increasingly, employers desire skills that have traditionally been the purview of high schools and postsecondary career and technical training systems: reading and writing, applied mathematics, and technical and functional skills specific to an occupational area. However, employers also want employees to possess generic skills, employability…

Describes a study that was intended to determine the skill areas and skills that are generalizable within and across secondary-level vocational program areas and programs. Discusses limitations and implications of this study and makes recommendations for future research. (NRJ)

Discusses research related to assessment data for vocational-technical programs and categories skills as basic, transferable, and generalizable. Use of generalizable skills can identify functional learning abilities and problems of students in those programs. (JOW)

This study examined the validity and reliability of four assessments, with three instruments per domain, with 103 students at residential secondary schools for the hearing or visually impaired. Domains included generalizable mathematics, communication, interpersonal relations, and reasoning skills. Data suggest the instruments are highly…

This study examined the relationship between the self-ratings of 97 students and their teachers' ratings of four sets of generalizable skills: mathematics, communication, interpersonal relations, and reasoning. The students, who were either hearing or visually impaired, were enrolled in vocational classes at two residential secondary schools.…

Reports on a study of the effects of students' sex, type of vocational program, and aptitude test scores on self-ratings and teachers' ratings of students' generalizable skills. Concludes that student self-ratings and teacher ratings may represent feasible, practical ways to assess students' skills. Includes recommendations for further research…

A project provided teachers and other school personnel with a set of practical instruments for assessing students' generalizable mathematics skills in the secondary vocational training programs in Illinois. The major accomplishments of the project were advisory committee identification and selection; population and sample identification and…

A study examined the skill areas and skills that were generalizable within and across the secondary vocational training programs in the 32 area vocational centers in Illinois. During the project, researchers worked to develop, validate, and determine the reliability of a generalizable skills instrument and to identify which mathematics,…

A study examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of two instruments designed to assess the degree to which postsecondary vocational students possessed those generalizable skills that are believed to be functionally relevant to success in a vocational program. The instruments, a student self-rating and a teacher rating form, contained 81…

An assessment was made of the needs of secondary trade and industrial education curriculum in Indiana. The study also identified those skills and knowledge that are important in trade and industrial occupations in business and industry and in secondary trade and industrial programs. Three surveys were conducted: (1) Business, Industry, and Labor…

The purpose of this study was to determine the skill areas that are generalizable across secondary vocational training program areas in the 32 vocational centers in Illinois. The major research problem was to (1) develop, validate, and determine the reliability of an instrument and (2) identify which mathematics, communications, interpersonal…