Skills Introduction
Part of degree planning focuses on academic skills. Do you need to brush up on research or writing or math skills to complete your coursework successfully? What skills is a college-educated person expected to possess, and how can you ensure you're gaining those skills?
This section of Ed Planning Resources will help you ask and answer some of these questions.
21st Century Skills
Skills Resources
You Can Do It!: A Guide for the Adult Learner and Anyone Going back to School Mid-Career - contains useful chapters on adults as learners, learning styles, how to read for college, taking notes, math panic, and more...
http://www.earnacollegedegree.com/resources/YCDI/
O*Net Skills Search - choose the skills you want to develop from different skills categories and submit the list. The Skills Search matches these skills to jobs, and provides background on the tasks, technologies, knowledge, and skills needed for these jobs. You can see matches between skills self-assessments and chosen careers. http://online.onetcenter.org/skills/
Skills Workshops
Participate in skills workshops on various skills, from time management to writing and more.
Academic Skills Self-Assessments
- How are your College Skills? - a brief assessment of multiple skills.
- Link to the state of Texas Higher Education Association's practice test designed to test incoming freshman's reading, math, and writing skills. Assess the outcomes using the answer key. http://www.thea.nesinc.com/practice.htm
- Writing Self-Assessment
- Critical Reading Self-Assessment
- Math Self-Assessment
- Research Skills Self-Assessment
- Research Skills Tutorial
- Please follow these instructions to do the Smarter Measure self-assessment, which focuses on readiness to do online work. As with all self-assessments, use the outcome to help determine your strengths, needs, and next steps in doing online coursework. Go to esc.smartermeasure.com Select the user name: CDL Student from the drop down box.
Use the password: esc
Skills Rubrics (see where you fit; 4s are most advanced)
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Download CriticalThinking Rubric.pdf
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Download integrativelearning Rubric.pdf
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Download LifelongLearning Rubric.pdf
LifelongLearning Rubric.pdf Details
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Key College Skills
- Literacy in the Digital Age focuses on literacy skills that need to be taught in the public school system. Although its focus is on public school, the article offers an interesting perspective on skills needed in the 21st century. Don't be put off by the length - you may want to focus on the many boxed lists
- Who is an Educated Person? The Ingredients of Educatedness is an article that investigates skills and qualities that education should support and develop.
- Greater Expectations, an Association of American Colleges and Universities report on education in the 21st century, offers insights into "why college education is important in today's world" and "the important outcomes of college study" (click on "For Students & Parents," and then on these items in the bulleted list). http://www.greaterexpectations.org/
- 10 Transferable Skills you learned during your College Education - one person's brief overview http://timmathisen.hubpages.com/hub/10-core-skills-developed-from-a-liberal-education
- The Value of the Liberal Arts - a thoughtful, interesting article written by the president of Lewis & Clark College http://legacy.lclark.edu/dept/public/liberalarts.html
- It Takes More than a Major - a summary of a research study done in 2013 that identifies skills and knowledge 21st century employers expect https://www.aacu.org/leap/presidentstrust/compact/2013SurveySummary (the complete survey is at https://www.aacu.org/sites/default/files/files/LEAP/2013_EmployerSurvey.pdf)