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Download full textJacobs, Rick R.; Griswold, Kaytlynn R.; Swigart, Kristen L.; Loviscky, Greg E.; Heinen, Rachel L. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2018
Honors graduates have much to learn when transitioning into their first position after college. For instance, workplaces have an entirely different culture and set of expectations from undergraduate honors classrooms. Furthermore, the skills they need to become successful employees or graduate students are different from those required of…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Employment Qualifications, Communication Skills, Work Environment
Cope, Judith L.; And Others – 1983
A study examined the feasibility of requiring and delivering certification for adult basic education (ABE) teachers in Pennsylvania. During the project, researchers mailed survey instruments to state directors of adult education, presidents of American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) affiliate organizations, past presidents…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Competence, Educational Certificates
Myers, Richard K. – 1981
The need to verify the competencies purported to be developed by individuals completing a program designed to prepare supervisors of special education led to surveying 29 Pennsylvania Directors of Special Education who were asked to rate successful first year supervisors of special education on 40 competencies. Results indicated the eight roles…
Descriptors: Competence, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Detwiler, Wayne L., Sr. – Vocational Education Journal, 1985
Describes an extended baccalaureate program in Pennsylvania in which trade, industrial, and technical teachers may spread out their professional requirements over a 10-year period, while they work full time in the classroom. Discusses program requirements, subject matter competence, required and elective courses, and program instructors'…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Competence, Higher Education, Teacher Qualifications
Makin, Richard C. – 1981
A study examined which agricultural mechanics skills were being taught by vocational horticulture teachers in Pennsylvania and compared the degree of proficiency possessed by teachers for particular competencies with the indicated relative importance of these competencies as perceived by employers in the horticulture industry. Also examined were…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Skills, Competence
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. – 2000
This document contains 22 brief summaries of the progress made by Pennsylvania Adult Education Section 353 Special Demonstration projects in meeting their goals and objectives. For each project, the following information is included: project director and number; purpose; impact; outcomes; conclusions and recommendations; project continuation and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competence, Demonstration Programs
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Inst. for the Study of Adult Literacy. – 1999
The Framework of Work Based Foundation Skills Project was undertaken to facilitate development of Pennsylvania's new workforce investment system Team PA CareerLink by identifying and developing common definitions of the foundation skills all workers need to function effectively in any workplace. A framework of 19 work-based foundation skills and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Competence
Hole, F. Marvin; And Others – 1977
A research project examined adequacy and appropriateness of traditional means of teacher preparation for health occupations programs and made recommendations for change. Its specific task was to survey (via questionnaires) all personnel involved in health occupations programs at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels in various educational…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Tyson, Diane F. – 1998
This document contains materials about and from the School-to-Work for Lancaster County Adults program. This program was a special demonstration project designed to develop a school-to-work (STW) model for adult learners. In an alternative high school setting, the program combined academic instruction, career exploration and planning, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Career Exploration
1985
Twelve major papers delivered during this conference on agricultural education in the Northeastern states are included in this volume: (1) "Status of Pennsylvania Special Needs Students in Vocational Agriculture: Phase IV--Job Performance Follow-Up," by Dennis C. Scanlon and Connie D. Baggett; (2) "Education, Age and Experience:…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering
