I recently heard a report from some researchers at the Harvard school of education about the importance of revitalizing our vocational education programs, that we are pushing college too much on everyone and there are many who are not succeeding. This article points to the benefits of ‘higher’ education in terms of task focused work, citizenship performance and less counterproductive behavior. Interesting hypotheses they were testing. I’m sad that they found that gender and race does moderate effect of education still. What about those who are not succeeding in our ed systems?
I am really surprised by the strong predictive relationships that education level and experience have with job performance criteria. What information does this provide us in selection for creating a distinction between which KSAOs to select for and which KSAOs to train?
It seems that hiring someone with an education would be more beneficial for the position above the entry level job they may actually be applying for. Do you think this is a reason education is required of most jobs?
I agree with Maria Teresa that high school's try to hard to get everyone into college. This really sets up people for failure. If students to go to college and fail, they often lack direction because of this. What can high school's do to take the pressure of off going to college and instead provide better alternatives?
How do we make the case to employers about the importance of psychometrically sound performance appraisals as an important piece of information to determine the economic value to the firm of multiple HR related decisions? These include those addressed in this article related to hiring. For example, how much education should firms buy when hiring a new employee? What is the financial/productivity ROI on training and on paying for advanced degrees such as MBAs?
I found it interesting how women and minorities did not show to have an effect from work experience with the education-performance relationship. How might this be? My instant thought if that culture may be an influence or the social roles of women and minorities.
I think they should have tested a curvilinear relationship on education - There seems to be a relationship that being too much of a book worm is actually bad on creativity...
I recently heard a report from some researchers at the Harvard school of education about the importance of revitalizing our vocational education programs, that we are pushing college too much on everyone and there are many who are not succeeding.
ReplyDeleteThis article points to the benefits of ‘higher’ education in terms of task focused work, citizenship performance and less counterproductive behavior. Interesting hypotheses they were testing. I’m sad that they found that gender and race does moderate effect of education still.
What about those who are not succeeding in our ed systems?
I am really surprised by the strong predictive relationships that education level and experience have with job performance criteria. What information does this provide us in selection for creating a distinction between which KSAOs to select for and which KSAOs to train?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that hiring someone with an education would be more beneficial for the position above the entry level job they may actually be applying for. Do you think this is a reason education is required of most jobs?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maria Teresa that high school's try to hard to get everyone into college. This really sets up people for failure. If students to go to college and fail, they often lack direction because of this. What can high school's do to take the pressure of off going to college and instead provide better alternatives?
ReplyDeleteHow do we make the case to employers about the importance of psychometrically sound performance appraisals as an important piece of information to determine the economic value to the firm of multiple HR related decisions? These include those addressed in this article related to hiring. For example, how much education should firms buy when hiring a new employee? What is the financial/productivity ROI on training and on paying for advanced degrees such as MBAs?
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting how women and minorities did not show to have an effect from work experience with the education-performance relationship. How might this be? My instant thought if that culture may be an influence or the social roles of women and minorities.
ReplyDeleteI think they should have tested a curvilinear relationship on education - There seems to be a relationship that being too much of a book worm is actually bad on creativity...
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