These skills are believed to be vital to the academic success of a student as well as their ability to perform once in their post education employment roles.
These skills demonstrate that the learner has done more than understand the information presented in school and can also apply that knowledge in a real life setting.
[4] It has been noted that it is difficult to develop a comprehensive list of specific transferrable skills due to the wide range of abilities that are picked up in formal and practical educational settings.
According to Wiggins and McTighe, one of the core reasons students fail to develop transferable skills is curricula often focus on too many disconnected, short-term objectives designed to cover broad areas of content.
It has been suggested that v in both high school and college lead students to an easier transition to the real world of application and work related tasks.