Linking school and work. The changing workplace : new challenges for education policy and practice / Lauren B. Resnick and John G. Wirt -- Standards-based education for workplace readiness. Skills standards, qualifications systems, and the American workforce / Marc S. Tucker -- Policy choices in the assessment of work readiness : strategy and structure / Richard F. Elmore -- Signaling the competencies of high school students to employers / John H. Bishop -- A school-to-work transition system : the role of standards and assessments / Paul E. Barton -- Linking assessment and instruction. Quality control for educating a smart workforce / Alan Lesgold -- Designing an assessment system for the future workplace / John R. Frederiksen and Allan Collins -- A school-based strategy for achieving and assessing work-readiness skills / Henry I. Braun.

Technical requirements for new forms of assessment. Work readiness assessment : questions of validity / Robert L. Linn -- Evaluation of performance tests for work readiness / Robert M. Guion -- Open-ended excercises in large-scale educational assessment / R. Darrell Bock -- Lessons from abroad. New directions in the assessment of high school achievement : cross-national perspectives / Margaret Vickers -- The role of assessment in educating for high performance work : lessons from Denmark and Britain / Davis Jenkins.