Evaluating Essential Skills for Ontario's Tradespeople (ESOT) project [electronic resource] / Bea Clark and Marti Jurmain.

"The goal of the Evaluating Essential Skills for Ontario's Tradespeople (ESOT) project was to investigate whether the availability and use of an online essential skills assessment tool during the first stage of an apprenticeship would result in improved academic performance of the project participants during subsequent in-school training. The ESOT project arose from concerns expressed by college educators that many apprentices lack the foundational math, reading and document use skills that are required for both in-school and on-the-job success. Currently, these essential skills gaps cannot be identified or addressed until the apprentice commences in-school training, and even then is often difficult to do."--Executive Summary.

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"The goal of the Evaluating Essential Skills for Ontario's Tradespeople (ESOT) project was to investigate whether the availability and use of an online essential skills assessment tool during the first stage of an apprenticeship would result in improved academic performance of the project participants during subsequent in-school training. The ESOT project arose from concerns expressed by college educators that many apprentices lack the foundational math, reading and document use skills that are required for both in-school and on-the-job success. Currently, these essential skills gaps cannot be identified or addressed until the apprentice commences in-school training, and even then is often difficult to do."--Executive Summary.

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