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Title: Academic Learning and National Productivity
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Bishop, John H. |
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Academic Learning and National Productivity Working Paper #91-07, Cornell University, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) Working Paper Series, August 1991. Also: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=cahrswp Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Cross-national Analysis; Education Indicators; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Curriculum; Sweden, Swedish; Wage Rates Skill requirements clearly appear to be escalating. Occupations which require the worker to use or process information are growing rapidly. The need for greater ability to process information is also growing in blue collar occupations that have traditionally not been thought to make such demands. Increasing numbers of manufacturing workers are working in production cells in which every member of the team is expected to learn every job. Production workers are being given responsibilities--quality checking, statistical process control (SPC) record keeping, resetting machines shown by SPC to be straying from target dimensions, redesigning the layout of the machines in the production cell--that used to be the sole province of supervisors, specialized technicians and industrial engineers. Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted, in many nations, in a new public focus on the quality and rigor of the elementary and secondary education received by the nation's front line workers. Higher order thinking and problem solving skills are believed to be in particularly short supply so much attention has been given to mathematics and science education because it is thought that these subjects are particularly relevant to their development. |
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Bishop, John H. "Academic Learning and National Productivity." Working Paper #91-07, Cornell University, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) Working Paper Series, August 1991. |