In an effort to facilitate portability of credentials and transferability of individuals’ skills, the Texas Skill Standards Board (TSSB) designed the Texas skill standards elements and format to promote the linkage of state and national skill standards efforts.

As part of the skill standards elements required for TSSB recognition, the TSSB adopted the common nomenclature endorsed by the National Skill Standards Board. The Skill Scales Companion Guide sets out the seventeen (17) academic and employability knowledge and skills endorsed by the National Skill Standards Board, and provides scales to determine the levels of knowledge and skills required in the world of work. The Texas Skill Standards Board wishes to acknowledge the use of the academic and employability knowledge and skills, and associated skill scales and Companion Guide, developed by the National Skill Standards Board.

These skill scales and Companion Guide are subject to copyright laws at the time of publication (2000).