1. The Changing Workplace: New Challenges for Education Policy and Practice / Lauren B. Resnick and John G. Wirt -- Pt. 1. Standards-Based Education for Workplace Readiness. 2. Skills Standards, Qualifications Systems, and the American Workforce / Marc S. Tucker. 3. Policy Choices in the Assessment of Work Readiness: Strategy and Structure / Richard F. Elmore. 4. Signaling the Competencies of High School Students to Employers / John H. Bishop. 5. A School-to-Work Transition System: The Role of Standards and Assessments / Paul E. Barton -- Pt. 2. Linking Assessment and Instruction. 6. Quality Control for Educating a Smart Workforce / Alan Lesgold. 7. Designing an Assessment System for the Future Workplace / John R. Frederiksen and Allan Collins. 8. A School-Based Strategy for Achieving and Assessing Work-Readiness Skills / Henry I. Braun -- Pt. 3. Technical Requirements for New Forms of Assessment. 9. Work Readiness Assessment: Questions of Validity / Robert L. Linn
10. Evaluation of Performance Tests for Work Readiness / Robert M. Guion. 11. Open-Ended Exercises in Large-Scale Educational Assessment / R. Darrell Bock -- Pt. 4. Lessons from Abroad. 12. New Directions in the Assessment of High School Achievement: Cross-National Perspectives / Margaret Vickers. 13. The Role of Assessment in Educating for High Performance Work: Lessons from Denmark and Britain / Davis Jenkins
