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O'Connor, Patrick J. – Journal of Career and Technical Education, 2012
This study reports the results on the needs of an emerging population of Career-Technical Education (CTE) teachers in Ohio. The purposes of the study were to determine the needs of the teachers and the effectiveness of the teacher education program they completed to add the CTE license. Twenty six academic teachers added a CTE license through a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education Teachers, Professional Development
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2010
To help students meet higher standards, all academic and career/technical teachers need to be willing and prepared to use reading, writing and mathematics as tools for learning across the curriculum. To do so, they must have access to ongoing professional development, literacy and numeracy coaching, shared strategies, and teamwork to make literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Technical Education, Reading Achievement, Vocabulary
Thrane, Lucille; Douthitt, Frieda – 1987
A study examined some of the ways in which vocational education has sought to ensure students a higher degree of preparation in the basic academic subjects at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. Various Ohio programs as well as programs in New York, Virginia, and Michigan were examined. Special attention was paid to Ohio's Program Options…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Fused Curriculum, Models
Adelman, Nancy E. – 1989
The study reported in this document was conducted to identify, describe, and assess the potential of innovative approaches to integrating vocational and academic education as one way of helping students to understand the utility of academic learning. Research activities included case studies of five integrated-curriculum programs in California,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation

Hatch, J. Amos; Freeman, Evelyn B. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1988
Reports findings from an ethnographic interview study which examined kindergarten philosophies and practices from the perspectives of teachers, principals, and supervisors. Analyses indicate that kindergartens are increasingly academic and skill oriented, and individuals implementing kindergarten programs may not believe that their kindergartens…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Administrator Attitudes, Conflict of Interest, Educational Philosophy
Rossetti, Rosemarie; And Others – 1990
A study was conducted to identify reasons why high school students elect not to enroll in a vocational curriculum. Data were collected via questionnaires sent to all 11th graders in 5 schools selected randomly in Southwestern Ohio (633 responses). Some of the findings of the study were the following: (1) 60 percent of the sample were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Attitudes, Enrollment Influences, Family Influence
Douglass, Rebecca S. – 1987
The educational reform movement has caused parents, students, businesspersons, and legislators to question the relevance of vocational education. Charges that vocational education has become obsolete have compelled vocational educators to work on improving its image in three areas--function, quality, and style. The vocational education programs in…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Credits
Zargari, Ahmad – 1996
As welfare programs have grown more costly, it has become obvious that they merely treat the symptom, poverty, instead of the problem, unemployment. Jobs increasingly require higher levels of skills and better educated workers. Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 has ended the federal guarantee of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Ashmore, Catherine; And Others – 1996
A project to further the integration of vocational and academic education in Ohio used focus groups and surveys to obtain information on the needs of academic and vocational teachers for curriculum to assist them in this integration. Focus groups at nine secondary schools involved administrators and vocational and academic teachers. Their…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Cooperative Education, Educational Needs

McCracken, J. David; And Others – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1991
Comparison of 529 Ohio rural twelfth graders (69 percent response) and 266 from Georgia (83 percent response) revealed differences in gender; ethnicity; parental socioeconomic status, educational level, and expectations; occupational choice; income expectation; and plans for postsecondary education. Georgia students had higher income and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Course Selection (Students), General Education, High School Seniors
Ramey, Pamela – 1990
A study was conducted to: (1) determine if differences exist in socioeconomic background, academic ability, and curriculum with regard to basic communication skills achievement of high school seniors; and (2) gather baseline information about the level of achievement expected of seniors. The study compared basic communication skills scores…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Basic Skills, Business Education
Ohio Board of Regents, Columbus. – 1999
Tech prep programs integrate academic, occupational, and employability during the last 2 years of high school and the first 2 years of college, combining the best of college-prep academics with the best of vocational and technical education. The Ohio Tech Prep program, jointly administered by the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Curriculum, Education Work Relationship
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1987
A study used federal income tax data to examine the long-term earning, unemployment, and interregional mobility patterns among 15,055 persons who graduated from 14 Ohio vocational education programs in 1979. Income data on the graduates' income earned during the 1983 tax year were also compared with U.S. Census Bureau data on 1983 Money Income of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns, Graduate Surveys
Bidwell, Sheri E. – 1997
This guide was developed for Ohio's Work SITE Learning Model, a national demonstration project for the integration of academic and vocational learning. The guide is designed to assist schools in conducting effective teacher worksite externship programs that allow teachers to observe workplace practices in order to glean information about academic…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Faculty Development
Greene, Brenda Z. – Updating School Board Policies, 1984
As a result of the National Commission on Excellence in Education report and other recent studies, an increasing number of governors and state legislators have sought to establish new requirements and minimum standards statewide. Addressing the potential threat that these requirements represent to local school boards in their efforts to maintain…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Community Control