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G-W Integrated Learning Solution
Together, We Build Careers
At Goodheart-Willcox, we take our mission seriously. Since 1921, G-W has been serving the
career and technical education (CTE) community. Our employee-owners are driven to deliver
exceptional learning solutions to CTE students to help prepare them for careers. Our authors
and subject matter experts have years of experience in the classroom and industry. We combine
their wisdom with our expertise to create content and tools to help students achieve success.
Our products start with theory and applied content based upon a strong foundation of accepted
standards and curriculum. To that base, we add student-focused learning features and tools
designed to help students make connections between knowledge and skills. G-W recognizes
the crucial role instructors play in preparing students for careers. We support educators’ efforts
by providing time-saving tools that help them plan, present, assess, and engage students with
traditional and digital activities and assets. We provide an entire program of learning in a variety
of print, digital, and online formats, including economic bundles, allowing educators to select
the right mix for their classroom.
Student-Focused Curated Content
Goodheart-Willcox believes that student-focused content should be built from standards and
accepted curriculum coverage. Standards from Precision Exams were used as a foundation in this text.
Exploring Drafting also uses a building block approach with attention devoted to a logical teaching
progression that helps students build upon their learning. We call on industry experts and teachers
from across the country to review and comment on our content, presentation, and pedagogy. Finally,
in our refi nement of curated content, our editors are immersed in content checking, securing and
sometimes creating fi gures that convey key information, and revising language and pedagogy.
Precision Exams Certifi cation
Goodheart-Willcox is pleased to partner with
Precision Exams by correlating Exploring Drafting to
their Technical Design I Standards. Precision Exams
Standards and Career Skill Exams were created in
concert with industry and subject matter experts to
match real-world job skills and marketplace demands.
Students that pass the exam and performance portion
of the exam can earn a Career Skills Certification™.
Precision Exams provides:
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Access to over 150 Career Skills Exams™ with pretest
exams and posttest exams for all 16 Career Clusters.
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Instant reporting suite access to measure student
academic growth.
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Easy-to-use, 100% online exam delivery system.
To see how Exploring Drafting correlates
to the Precision Exams Standards, please visit
www.g-w.com/exploring-drafting-2018 and click on the
Correlations tab. For more information on Precision
Exams, including a complete listing of their 150+
Career Skills Exams™ and Certificates, please visit
https://www.precisionexams.com.
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