SOUTH CAROLINA CAREER READINESS ASSESSMENTS
South Carolina profile standards call for students to achieve world-class knowledge and skills that include rigorous academics, essential soft skills, and life and career characteristics.
WIN Learning's Work Ready Credential and Essential Soft Skills Credential provide a direct alignment to the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate standards. Using these credentials, available statewide to all South Carolina students, districts can identify mastery and provide a portable credential that employers recognize as a valid assessment of essential career readiness skills. Each spring, eleventh-grade students take a battery of four career readiness assessments: Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, Work Ready Data, and Essential Soft Skills. To date, the state has administered career readiness assessments to more than 300,000 eleventh-grade students to determine achievement in foundational readiness and essential life and career skills.
Work Ready Math measures students' ability to use mathematical reasoning skills to solve real-life workplace problems, including calculating sizes, quantities, and costs; and evaluating information and results to determine the best solution.
Work Ready Reading measures students' reading skills including obtaining information and applying new knowledge; following instructions in procedural documents; and understanding regulations, policies, and procedures.
Work Ready Data measures students' data analysis skills including identifying trends and relationships among variables; interpreting research and operational data; and reviewing technical drawings, and specifications.
Essential Soft Skills measures entry-level work tasks and behaviors including communicating effectively, conveying professionalism, thinking critically and solving problems, and promoting teamwork and collaboration.
ASSESSMENT SCORES AND ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS
The Work Ready Credential is comprised of three component assessments: Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, and Work Ready Data. Each assessment results in a scale score and level score. The scale score range for each assessment is 150-260. The level score range is from Achievement Level 1 to Achievement Level 5. Work Ready Achievement Levels correlate to the U.S. Department of Labor O*NET Job Zone framework. South Carolina has set a benchmark of Achievement Level 3 which indicates that a student has the foundational skills to pursue O*NET job zone level 3 career pathways. Students who earn an Achievement Level 3 or above in each of the assessments will receive a printed credential. The Essential Soft Skills credential is comprised of one assessment and is pass/fail. The scale score range is 150-260. Students who pass the Essential Soft Skills assessment with a scale score of at least 203 will earn a printed credential. Both credentials are endorsed by the National Work Readiness Council.
Students also receive an Individual Score Report that provides a detailed breakdown of their scores on each assessment.
More information from WIN Learning: https://bit.ly/scdetesting
More information from South Carolina: https://bit.ly/careerreadytest