South Carolina High School Career Readiness Assessments
South Carolina students have the opportunity to take the WIN Learning Work Ready and Essential Soft Skills assessments and earn their South Carolina Work Ready Credential and South Carolina Essential Soft Skills Credential.
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South Carolina Career Readiness Training Webinars
Spring 2025 Testing Window: March 24-April 18
WIN Supports World-Class Skills and the Profile of a South Carolina Graduate
South Carolina profile standards call for learners to achieve world-class knowledge and skills that include rigorous academics, essential soft skills, and life and career characteristics.
WIN Learning's Essential Soft Skills Credential and Work Ready Credential provides a direct alignment to the state profile standards. Using these credentials, available statewide to all South Carolina students, districts can identify mastery and provide a portable credential that employers recognize as a valid assessment of essential career readiness skills.
To date, the state has implemented and administered career readiness assessments to more than 200,000 eleventh-grade students to determine achievement in foundational readiness and essential life and career skills including creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and collaboration and teamwork, which are part of the "Profile of a South Carolina Graduate" framework.
The Essential Soft Skills Credential is composed of questions measuring entry-level work tasks and behaviors, including Communicating Effectively, Conveying Professionalism, Promoting Teamwork & Collaboration, and Thinking Critically & Solving Problems. The assessment items require the learner to choose two answers for each question, the “best” and “worst” answers for handling each situation.
Successfully passing the assessment will earn the learner an eBadge and the Essential Soft Skills Credential. Earning the Essential Soft Skills Credential ensures the job seeker has the attitudinal and work habit skills employers demand.
The Work Ready Credential is a workforce education and development tool comprised of three proctored assessments: Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, and Work Ready Data. leading to a portable credential. It brings employers, learners and job seekers, and education and workforce partners together in building a skilled workforce, while keeping and attracting businesses with higher-wage jobs and economic growth. Students can take the South Carolina Work Ready assessments in 11th grade and receive a credential signed by the governor.
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WIN Learning is offering preview access and valued pricing to its award-winning career readiness courseware for South Carolina schools.
Contact Ken Boddie at kboddie@winlearning.com or call 704-430-1756.