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This 8 page report discusses issues associated with
career assessment in the educational system. For decades, American high school students
faced a variety of career “assessments” which would supposedly indicate what
professions they were uniquely suited for and where they were most likely to find career
satisfaction. The problem with such tests were that they were far too generalized and
offered little real guidance. For the past thirty years, the question of what is meaningful
and useful assessment has continually been asked. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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to find career satisfaction. The problem with such tests were that they were far too generalized and offered little real guidance. For example, a bright student would find that he
or she would be "good at" almost anything while other students who were less skilled at taking tests or who had talents that would not be suited to a written
test were pigeonholed into some sort of category that seemed to suggest they should not aspire beyond certain types of jobs. Answering the question of what a student should "be"
or what sort of work will best suit them is not all that different from asking how they will be a spiritual person or what it means to be a
successful person. The end result of being educated, spiritual, or successful are all defined by the individual making the definition. What he or she believes or understands as the framework
for a certain state of being is unlikely to be the same as what another person understands it to be. What it means to be educated can be judged on
the number of college degrees earned and years spent in formal study but that same "well-educated" person may not know how to drive a car, much less repair it.
The tools one needs for life are those that allow him or her the greatest degree of competency and accomplishment. This is not to suggest that there are not varying
degrees of what "accomplishment" means. However, making the assumption that education is a characteristic which leads to results -- intrinsic or extrinsic -- is part of the greater understanding of
what it means to be an educated person. It is certainly possible that a mechanic can have a great love for Shakespeare, a masters degree in English literature, and still
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