The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed over 400 employers across the United States to determine which skill sets for recent entrants to the labor force are most valued. Skills include professionalism/work ethic, oral and written communication, teamwork/collaboration, and critical thinking/problem solving.
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The Conference BoardJill Casner-LottoMary Wright Benner
This paper presents a summary of each of 10 evaluations conducted of NASA educational programs. The paper begins with a table outlining the titles of the evaluations and who conducted them, the date of the report, the evaluation questions, the evaluation design or methods and brief comments on the quality of each report. After the table each report is considered in more depth through an overview of what the evaluation included as well as a critique of the evaluation questions, methods and findings. The paper concludes with an overall commentary on the set of evaluations.