Vocations · Job Skills

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Work-based learning lives or dies on soft skills that are hard to grade fairly: showing up on time, speaking up, working with others, staying safe. Rate each of eight skills from Beginning to Advanced against a written description of proficient, record the evidence, set goals and compare with the last rating. Print the rubric for supervisors so everyone rates against the same meanings.

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Ratings

The worked example is made up: two supervisor ratings of a culinary student six weeks apart and a first rating of an IT help desk intern. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Vocations · Job Skills$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A record per rating: the trainee’s code, program or site, date, who rated, eight skills scored 1 to 4 against a written proficient descriptor, the evidence seen and dated goals. Works out the total out of 32, the average, the weakest skills and the change from the same trainee’s previous rating; flags Beginning skills, a low average and ratings without evidence; prints the rubric with level meanings.
Who it is for
CTE teachers, work-based learning coordinators, job training staff and work-site supervisors.
Format
Browser rubric with a saved record per rating. Prints the rubric for raters, one rating with its evidence, every rating in a table or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Job search kit ($29) and the Vocations Suite pass ($99), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Job Skills space in Caveat Vocations.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Print the rubric for each rater.
  2. Watch a few shifts before rating.
  3. Score each skill from what you saw.
  4. Write one example as evidence.
  5. Set a goal for the weakest skill.

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The four levels

Four levels, one meaning eachLevelWhat you see1 BeginningRarely, even with help2 DevelopingWith reminders3 ProficientReliably: entry-level ready4 AdvancedWithout prompting; helps othersFour levels, one meaning each1 BeginningWhat you see: Rarely, even with help2 DevelopingWhat you see: With reminders3 ProficientWhat you see: Reliably: entry-level ready4 AdvancedWhat you see: Without prompting; helps others
Rate what you have seen. Two raters who use the same level meanings will agree far more often.

Where the skills come from

The eight skills follow the groupings employers and federal career and technical education frameworks use: applied knowledge, effective relationships and workplace skills. Proficient is written as what an entry-level employer would expect, so a 3 means ready in that skill.

Fair ratings

Ratings drift when raters read levels differently. Share the printed rubric, rate only what you have observed, and when two people rate the same trainee, talk through any skill where you are two levels apart.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education. Employability Skills Framework (cte.ed.gov).
  2. National Association of Colleges and Employers. Career readiness competencies (naceweb.org).
  3. Brookhart, S. M. (2013). How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading. ASCD.
  4. Jonsson, A. and Svingby, G. (2007). The use of scoring rubrics: reliability, validity and educational consequences. Educational Research Review, 2(2).

The worked example is made up. Use trainee codes, not names; ratings are for coaching and are not a hiring decision. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.