How does one know when it is time to either give a program extra attention or perhaps close it? That problem faces many career and technical education (CTE) programs and there is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution. Traditional assessments are inefficient in helping programs learn how to leverage their strengths and compensate for their…

The Work Again Project prepares older adults for employment or voluntary positions through a series of workshops and minicourses. The placement component has found positions for over 6,800 people in the categories of labor, business, education, housekeeping, and sitting. (SK)

Examines the effects of combined on-the-job and classroom training on the employability of Job Training Partnership Act terminees completing a two-year training activity in Missouri. Although combined program participants' employability was enhanced immediately after the program's termination, this advantage disappeared after one year. Benefits…

Discussion of the development of educational radio focuses on high school radio stations. Problems with determining an accurate number of high school radio stations are considered; and the history of one station in Buffalo (Missouri), KBFL, is described, including details of the two-year broadcasting curriculum, funding, and job placement…

The article describes "Project Occupations" at a Missouri junior college to train and find employment for low-income persons who are unskilled, undereducated, have lost jobs, or are chronically unemployed. Emphasis is on fast training and placement in area businesses. (MF)

Discusses a study that followed roughly equivalent samples of vocational and nonvocational graduates. Includes personal comments and advice bearing on the school-to-work transition. (JOW)

Discusses a study that found that students with ownership types of supervised occupational experience programs (SOEP) were more likely to be engaged in full-time agricultural occupations and those who had placement types of SOEPs were more likely to be in nonagricultural occupations. (JOW)

This interview between Mark Laird, statewide employment specialist with Missouri Rehabilitation Services for the Blind, and Gil Johnson, director of American Foundation for the Blind West, describes an innovative rehabilitation model that forges relationships with businesses and has doubled the number of consumers with visual impairments who find…

A normative survey was conducted of all certificated, experienced public secondary school counselors in Missouri, to ascertain the problems, practices, and perceptions of Missouri counselors concerning the five vocational guidance functions specified in the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and its 1968 Amendments. The survey instrument was…

This two-part document includes a description of the job placement component of State Fair Community College's (SFCC) vocational-technical division which, since 1971 has placed an average of 96% of its graduates in fields directly related to their training. The program was modeled after successful programs in secondary and post-secondary schools…

This paper provides an overview of some of the issues involved in developing and implementing vocational education effectiveness indicators and systems. The paper first discusses educational effectiveness indicator systems--with the emphasis on "systems" in contrast to individual effectiveness indicators taken alone--and stresses the…

The three projects examined in this paper are the Work Link/Project R.E.S.P.E.C.T. program in St. Louis and Seattle's Individualized Placement efforts and Office Occupations sector project. These are programs that have focused their efforts on the difficult goal of high retention. All have managed to place and keep between half and about…

This compilation presents descriptions of 146 unusual and innovative job development activities that have been used successfully by deans, directors, and placement coordinators of Missouri area vocational-technical schools and community colleges. The strategies are divided into nine categories: Innovative Ideas, Educators Go to Employers,…

This module regarding support services available for special needs students in vocational education programs in Missouri identifies the following support personnel: vocational resource educators; basic skills instructors; special needs counselors, counselors and placement specialists; vocational evaluators; supplemental teachers; vocational…

This module provides information on supported employment as outlined in the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986, P.L. 99-506. It discusses models of supported employment; the roles of vocational rehabilitation counselors, school district personnel, and job coaches; and what school district personnel can do to prepare students for supported…