The misuse of employment tests – which measure reading, math and other cognitive skills – can unfairly disadvantage minorities and women without the employers or the job applicants even realizing it.

WorkKeys is a series of tests developed by the makers of the ACT to test whether students have job-related skills, such as basic math, teamwork, and the ability to read charts and documents.

In the first administration of the new ACT WorkKeys career-readiness assessment given to all public school 11th grade students last spring, 87.9 percent earned a National Career Readiness ...

On the other hand, WorkKeys tests applied mathematics, comprehension and problem-solving ability – their readiness for the workforce.

The WorkKeys assessment will also be offered for free. The ACT test gauges a student’s readiness for success in the first year of college. It was first introduced in 1959.

Guam Community College is now accepting Platinum and Gold level ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificates as evidence of college-level readiness in math and English.

WorkKeys measures skills that employers in the Great Lakes Bay Region believe are critical to job success including math, reading, applied technology, locating information, observation and teamwork.

Proponents of the test say it is used by some companies in hiring. Having a WorkKeys test score could help students get an entry-level job. “These simple questions, they do have merit to employers.

And three skills will allow a person to fill 77 percent of jobs: reading for information, locating information and applied mathematics.

More than nine out of 10 students in Pickens County and Anderson District 1 who took the ACT WorkKeys career readiness test this spring earned a National Career Readiness Certificate, with both ...

PAVILION — Nine students from Pavilion High School have completed the ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate, connecting them to future careers available in Genesee County and across ...