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Dive into the shared vision for skills validation that outlines the importance of moving towards skills-validation practices for our economy and workforce and calls on other companies, education providers, and assessment experts to join us in this critical work.
Find industry-standard definitions on key concepts, terms, and methods to help the field move forward. It also provides examples of how you can begin to adopt these terms and methods in your work.
Explore a set of user personas and use cases that demonstrate how skills-based assessments can be understood and implemented from the perspectives of the worker, employer, and state.
Understand how to build validation methods that remain consistent, to a high standard, and fair as your work continues to innovate and grow.
Over the past several months, C-BEN’s Partnership for Skills Validation sought to understand what quality looks like in skills validation, and how we might enable it at scale. Here’s our learnings.
The Partnership for Skills Validation presents a ready-to-use rubric for your CBE programming to enhance your ability to evaluate technology solutions. Try it out today!
In today’s competitive job market, graduates need to demonstrate job-readiness to employers. At C-BEN, we help our clients design, build, implement, and scale credentials that clearly signal they possess job-ready skills.
We’ve provided technical assistance in the design and launch of programs at R1 universities and community colleges, like Coastline College, which recently launched California’s first Direct Assessment associate’s degree in business.
Cross-ecosystem collaboration is the only way to address talent shortages at scale. C-BEN Solutions facilitates the development of scalable, competency-based solutions across state, regional, and national levels to advance alignment of learning to key workforce needs.
We support the creation of state- and tribal-nation-wide competency-based talent marketplaces—such as our facilitation across state agencies, employers, and education providers to create the Alabama Talent Triad, a platform connecting Alabamians to in-state employment and upskilling pathways.
Traditional education often fails to recognize the valuable skills, knowledge, and strengths adult learners bring to the classroom. One way C-BEN Solutions operationalizes worker- and learner-centered design is through the creation of competency-based apprenticeships in high-demand fields like nursing and teaching—such as our collaboration with Tennessee Grow Your Own to design competency-based curriculum to teach apprentices seeking teacher licensure and address the teacher shortage.
With these resources, you are on your way to putting skills validation practices into place, and we would love to hear about the progress you’re making!
Have you used the Common Language Glossary to start conversations around skills validation practices at work, or built new skills validation tools using the Quality Guidance?
Share how you’ve been using the resources below.
To join the Partnership for Skills Validation, email Emily Scheines at emily@c-ben.org.