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The assessment and reflection process helps students in the following essential ways:  \n• Helps students make personal connections to their experiences.  \n• Guides the learning process and deepens/extends the learning from the WBL experience.  \n• Allows students to see how academic and technical skills are applied in authentic settings.  \n• Provides a tool for students to self-assess their employability skills and areas of improvement.  \n• Promotes the need for and completion of postsecondary training.  \nAdditionally, measurement of student learning from WBL experiences provides schools and districts with data that inform continuous improvement of the quality of WBL experiences for all students. Schools and districts can use this data for multiple purposes aimed at improving the system at all levels. This includes measuring graduating students’ career readiness; systematically determining gaps in employability skills acquisition to improve WBL experiences and academics atthe student level and/or schoolwide; and reviewing the quality of WBL experiences across individual business and industry partners.  \nUse of Portfolios  \nThe use of a portfolio is one approach to assessing and documenting student experiences and employability skills development from a WBL experience. A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that demonstrates student learning across time. Portfolios promote self-reflection, give students greater ownership in assessing and articulating their learning and provide a resource that students can use for future employment. Schools and districts can embed a portfolio to assess WBL experiences as part of a student’s Individual Plan of Study (IPS) .  \nSelecting Work Samples  \nOne key artifact that students should include in their portfolio is WBL experience work samples. AWBL work sample is a product that a student develops and compiles during the course of his or her WBL experience that demonstrates the development of key employability skills. Students and school coordinators, IPS coordinators or counselors should observe the following steps for developing, reviewing and providing feedback on WBL experience work samples:  \nSelect employability skills: Student learners, with guidance from their school coordinator, Individual Plan of Study (IPS) coordinator or counselor, should identify the employability skills that they will focus on developing during their WBL experience. To help determine which skills they will focus on, students should do the following:  \nReview the Employability Skills Rubric.  \nEmployability Skills Rubric may be found in the Measuring and Reflecting Student Learning Document pages 13-15 (page 13 is pictured above) .  \n[https://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/CSAS/CSAS%20Home/CTE%20Home/Measuring%20and%20Reflecting%](https://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/CSAS/CSAS%20Home/CTE%20Home/Measuring%20and%20Reflecting%)[ ](https://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/CSAS/CSAS%20Home/CTE%20Home/Measuring%20and%20Reflecting%)[20Student%20Learning%20%28002%29.pdf](20Student%20Learning%20%28002%29.pdf)  \nStudents Take the Employability Skills Self-Assessment  \nThe Employability Skills Assessment maybe found in the Measuring and Reflecting Student Learning: WorkBased Experience Portfolio and Employability Skills Rubric document on page 12.  \nA digital fillable Employability Skills Assessment maybe found in the Kansas Work  \nBased Learning: Personalized Learning Plan on page 19.  \nMeasuring and Reflecting Student Learning: Work-Based Experience Portfolio and Employability Skills Rubric:  \n[ht","cbCaieqS6k63za6H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieqS6k63za6H","pdf",874338,15,"English","# Measuring and Reflecting Student Learning\n## Importance of Assessing and Reflecting\n## Use of Portfolios\n## Selecting Work Samples\n## Students Take the Employability Skills Self-Assessment\n## Create and/or Identify a WBL Experience Work Sample\n## Complete the Work Sample Reflection","[{\"question\":\"Why should schools measure employability skills from Work-Based Learning (WBL)?\",\"answer\":\"Schools and districts measure essential employability skills and knowledge gained from WBL and give students a chance to document and reflect. 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