Cohort workforce-readiness index ranged from 5.2 to 6.4 across the four highlighted cases¶

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q1 i? Across the four highlighted capstone cohorts, the workforce-readiness index ranged from 5.2 to 6.4, treated as a comparative benchmark rather than a competency location. → Smith 2026

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Smith 2026¶

Smith, Dalton Ross; Whittington, Wilburn; Martinez, Alejandro; Duncan, Aidan; Li, Gang. (2026). A Conceptual Framework for Enhancing Workforce Readiness for Smart Manufacturing in the AI Era. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11540 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.11540

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Summary of the four case-study cohorts (N of 4, 5, 9, and 5 students) scored retrospectively on the WRL rubric; the reported WRI values are exact multiples of 1/N, and the paper states they are "illustrative of framework mechanics on a single-institution pilot rather than a psychometric validation".

"Across the highlighted cohorts the workforce-readiness index ranged from 5.2 to 6.4, and the no-thin-pillar rule was diagnostically informative in three of the four cases and the binding certification constraint in one"

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