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Time On Task Across Skill Sets In Construction Trades Classrooms: Preparation Of Skilled Craft Workers, Zachary D. Riffell
Time On Task Across Skill Sets In Construction Trades Classrooms: Preparation Of Skilled Craft Workers, Zachary D. Riffell
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The construction industry is an essential component of the U.S. economy, yet even amid good wages, construction companies are having trouble finding enough individuals who are ready for work in the industry, and they fear they will not be able to do so in the future because training options for potential workers are inadequate. Better training options are needed. Much research has pointed to soft and academic skills as necessary skills for successful workers that are missing from worker preparation programs, but little has been done to establish an actual correlation between these skills and workforce readiness.
In this study, …