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Guide to Workforce Skills Assessment Instruments

This guide reviews the principal instruments and surveys developed for assessing workforce skills. Its main objective is to consolidate the existing information and provide an overview of the different types of instruments available. It is also intended to help readers understand and navigate the vast universe of surveys and instruments for assessing skills in adults. For each instrument, it presents a general description, comparisons with other instruments of the same type, and an analysis of its applicability to the region.
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4 Tools to Help You Identify the Skills You Need to Grow

4 Tools to Help You Identify the Skills You Need to Grow | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
So how do you make sure your skills – or your team members’ skills — are keeping up with the pace of change? How do you identify which skills are most important for you or your team to learn? And how do you determine if you need to make a career change in order to keep learning and stay engaged, or whether there are enough opportunities for growth where you are now? The three assessments below offer some practical guidance on how to begin. There’s also a tool from Heidi Grant Halvorson that will improve the odds of sticking to your development goals once you’ve set them.
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Problem-solving Skills and Labour Market Outcomes – Results from the Latest Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL)

Problem-solving Skills and Labour Market Outcomes – Results from the Latest Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
Education Matters: Insights on education, learning and training in Canada. Problem-solving Skills and Labour Market Outcomes – Results from the Latest Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL)
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The article reports on a recent international assessment of problem-solving skills in the adult population. Factors that help to explain variation in the distribution of problem-solving skills include prose literacy skills, educational attainment, age, gender and occupation.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-004-x/2012001/article/11651-eng.htm#e

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Canada. Skills at Work

Canada. Skills at Work | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
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Developed with the printing industry stakeholders, the guides and tools included in the suite enable employers and employees in the industry to use the Skill Standards on the job to assess skills, identify gaps and ultimately develop an on-the-job training strategy to ensure employees have the skills they need to thrive.
These guides include:

Skills Assessment Checklist presents the national Skill Standards with a rating scale for use by supervisors to assess employees’ levels of competence and employees to conduct self-assessments. A checklist has been developed for each occupation for which national Skill Standards have been created.

Training Tracker is a document that enables employers and employees alike to record ongoing in-house training and skills development. A Training Tracker is available for each occupation for which Skill Standards have been developed. http://www.cpisc-csic.ca/eng/skills_work.html

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Predictors of Career Adaptability Skill among Higher Education Students in Nigeria 

Predictors of Career Adaptability Skill among Higher Education Students in Nigeria  | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
Among the four predictors, career self-efficacy sources was the most statistically significant predictor of career adaptability skill among higher education students in Nigeria, followed by personal goal orientation, career future concern, and perceived social support respectively.  Vocational identity did not statistically predict career adaptability skill among higher education students in Nigeria.
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European Union site. Skills Panorama

European Union site. Skills Panorama | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
The EU Skills Panorama integrates in one single database information on skills needs and mismatches from several different national, European and international sources
Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:

The site provides information and intelligence that can:
- Help improve the capacity for skills assessment and anticipation
- Inform skills governance through the anticipation of skills needs; improving responsiveness of education and training systems; and enhancing the matching of supply and demand for labour across Europe.


The site also provides
- access to labour market and skills information and ‘intelligence’
- users with access to information about the methodologies used to generate labour market and skills information and intelligence
http://euskillspanorama.ec.europa.eu/

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Australia. Employability Online

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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:

This interactive resource will reinforce Employability Skills providing learners with additional confidence and abilities to apply their training in real life situations.
http://employabilityonline.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/index.htm

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Canada/Saskatchewan. IMMSKILLS

Canada/Saskatchewan. IMMSKILLS | Vocational education and training - VET | Scoop.it
Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:

This assessment service provides an avenue for foreign trained workers to have a pre-assessment prepared for their training credentials prior to immigrating or working for an employer in Saskatchewan and Canada. http://www.immskills.com/

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