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Wircenski, Jerry L.; And Others – 1982
A study was conducted to expand and disseminate the school-to-work transition skill activities begun in a 1980-81 project in Pennsylvania by focusing on two groups: vocational instructors and disadvantaged vocational students. Questionnaires were created and mailed to 903 teachers, with a 50 percent usable response; while a student survey was sent…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Download full textSelkirk, Betty; Wiggins, Sondra – 1998
A project was conducted to prepare unemployed or underemployed adults to enter the work force by continuing and expanding an adult education and career enhancement program that embraces the National Education Goals and contains all the elements of a school-to-work model. Staff were recruited and trained, a curriculum integrating work-based and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Resources, Employment Potential
Mangie, Bernadette A.; Goberish, John S. – PASSAGE, 1994
The 1993-94 PASSAGE newsletter was established to create a customized educational/career-development/work-related informational publication for Pennsylvania's adult learners and educators. The project's main objective was to provide timely workplace and job skills information to Pennsylvania's adult learners, unemployed/underemployed individuals,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career Counseling
PASSAGE, 1990
This document consists of 11 issues of a workplace and job-skills information newsletter specifically designed for adult education program practitioners and their students. The issues are preceded by a final report on the project. The purposes of the newsletter were to disseminate "hands-on" career and job development information of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Heil, Carolyn – 1981
This document, developed in Pennsylvania, contains guidelines formulated to provide local school districts and vocational/technical schools with step-by-step procedures that will assist in the development and implementation of successful job placement programs. The guide is organized in five chapters. The first chapter introduces the project,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Employment Services
Hahn, Andrew; Friedman, Barry – 1981
Two job search assistance programs for disadvantaged youth, funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Project Act, were evaluated for both operation and impact. The two programs were the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Job Factory, which paid youths a stipend for doing the "job" of finding a job, while providing group activities,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Counselor Role
Taylor, Valorie – 1999
The majority of employment and training programs are designed as one-size-fits-all, leaving approximately 85 percent of participants unsatisfied, unmotivated, or forced back into a job with no chance of advancement. In targeting a clientele of single parents and dislocated workers, an action research project, called Chance to Advance, conducted in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
