Meeting of the 21st Century Skills Collaboration

在描述工人能力的一般集合时，劳工部提供了一系列技能和能力，包括个人技能、学术能力、劳动力能力、行业范围的技术能力和特定于职业的技术技能。这次会议是21世纪技能协作的会议，将召集NSF资助的合作者和行业同行，发起一项努力，验证与发展专业技能或21世纪技能相关的干预措施和措施，使其与贯穿技术人员教育的工人能力保持一致。在智力优势方面，行业和学术联合论坛将发起一项努力，以解决实践和研究中的差距，特别是(1)将雇主所说的应届毕业生缺乏的东西转化为表现衡量标准，以及(2)验证哪些专业发展干预措施可以改善学生在劳动力市场的表现。该项目具有严格的面向未来的议程，其更广泛的影响在于利益攸关方不断参与协调努力，以调查和改进21世纪技能的发展和衡量。

In describing a general set of worker competencies, the Department of Labor presents an array of skills and competencies that include personal skills, academic competencies, workforce competencies, industry-wide technical competencies, and occupation-specific technical skills. The conference, Meeting of the 21st Century Skills Collaboration, will assemble NSF-ATE funded collaborators and industry colleagues to initiate an effort to validate interventions and measures associated with the development of professional or 21st century skills aligned with worker competencies that cut across technician education. In terms of intellectual merit, the joint industry-academic forum will initiate an effort to address gaps in practice and the research, specifically in (1) translating what employers say is missing from new graduates into performance measures and (2) validating what professional development interventions improve student performance in the workforce. With a rigorous future-oriented agenda, the project's broader impact is in its continuous engagement of stakeholders in coordinated effort to investigate and improve the development and measurement of 21st Century skills.