Skills Bridge Essential Skills Pilot Project in BC
Skills Bridge offers Essential Skills training with the aim of ensuring that participants in academic, trades training, and apprenticeship programs emerge fully ready for employment. The pilot project is an outcome evaluation of a system of Essential Skills coaching at three sites – Douglas College, North Island College, and SkillPlan. The performance measures include Essential Skills learning gains, student engagement, and grades. The study develops an evaluation framework and survey instruments, and includes a cost-effectiveness analysis. Implementation of Skills Bridge at the three pilot sites informs a larger consortium of educational institutions implementing Essential Skills training for their students. SRDC is a research partner in the pilot project funded by the participating colleges and industry training institutions.
Project Details
Published: April 2014
Capability: Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Literacy and Essential Skills, Career Development and LMI, Post-Secondary Education - Access and Persistence
Population: Low-skilled Workers - Students - EI Recipients
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