Sustainabilities Essential Skills Upgrading Project in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area – Phase I

Development of a research framework and instruments to support an outcomes evaluation for the SustainAbilities project – a large-scale workplace Essential Skills training initiative in Wood Buffalo Oil Sands region, with some 3,000 frontline workers annually. Phase I involves the design of the research framework and baseline survey instruments. Future phases will involve the design of protocols for implementation research and survey instruments for assessing post-training outcomes, including performance outcomes of workers and firms.

Project Details

Published: January 2013
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Adult Training - Workplace Training - Literacy and Essential Skills
Population: Low-skilled Workers

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