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APPENDIX B
A Reorganization of the SCANS Report:
What is Suggested? What is Omitted?
Knowledge/Thinking (Cognition)
- Thinking skills--reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn
- Information skills--acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information
- Systems skills--understanding systems
Attitudes/Values (Affect)
- Personal qualities--responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, integrity, and honesty
Committing/Connecting Knowledge & Attitudes to Action (Conation)
- Personal qualities--self-management
Skills/Action (Overt Behavior)
Personal
- Basic skills--reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts
- Resource allocation--time and money
Social
- Interpersonal skills--negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member
- Systems skills-monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems
- Resource allocation--time, money, materials, space, and staff
Technology
- Information skills--using computers to process information
- Technology utilization skills--selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology
Adapted from: Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. (1991). What work requires of schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor.
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