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Ellison, Nolen M. – 1983
A discussion is presented of the roles of economic and human resource development in a changing economy and society. Introductory material considers the economic changes taking place in society and argues that strategies for economic redevelopment and revitalization must explicitly incorporate strategies for partnership building related to work…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Economic Change, Economic Climate
McCartney, H. E. – 1984
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) currently enjoys three distinctive automotive training partnership agreements designed to meet the specific educational needs of the participating industries. The first agreement is between NVCC and the Product Service Training Department of General Motors Corporation (GMC), whereby GMC may extend its…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Auto Mechanics, College Role, Community Colleges
Hensley, S. Michael – 1989
In order to help meet the economic development needs of the state, Oklahoma State University Technical Branch at Okmulgee (OSU Tech) has developed two initiatives. First, OSU Tech has focussed student training on degree programs in advancing technologies, such as avionics, electronics, and robotics. Second, the college has developed a Technology…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Needs, Job Training, Program Descriptions
Gourlay, Traci – 1988
Quantitative assessment instruments have been developed to identify those skills or behaviors which individuals with developmental disabilities need in order to become competitively employed, and to measure individuals' progress in the program and hence measure program effectiveness. Such assessment instruments are problematic, as each employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods
Johnson, Scott D. – 1987
A two-part study examined the relationship between technical troubleshooting behavior and the level of expertise of service technicians who diagnose faulty equipment. The first investigation addressed the differences in the knowledge base that troubleshooters bring to a problem. A group of five novice troubleshooters and five experts was given…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Electricity, Electronics, Job Skills
Epstein, Kenneth I.; Matlick, Richard K. – 1981
Litton Industries has been investigating methods for analyzing training problems and designing appropriate systems of individualized instruction to address those problems. This work can be referred to as the development of the Instructional Systems Analysis and Selection (ISAS) procedures. ISAS is a collection of questions, comparison matrices,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Instructional Innovation
Meerbaum, Monica Leonie – 1978
This paper presents the background and development of the Crisis Intervention Simulation Survey, (CISS), a written simulation instrument designed to assess police officers' knowledge of effective crisis intervention skills and the awareness of their emotional responses to selected crisis intervention situations. It summarizes the recent history of…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Intervention, Knowledge Level, On the Job Training
Barton, Paul E. – 1978
The problems inherent in the relationships between education and work present difficulties and opportunities for education. Increasing segmentation has come to characterize modern life and the role of education in it. The period of youth is mostly filled with education, the middle years are usually devoted to work, and old age has come to be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Job Training, Labor Market
Berneman, Louis P.; And Others – 1980
The Corporate Career Demonstration Project is a Federally funded program designed to provide economically disadvantaged young adults with specialized training, counseling and educational experiences. The project's major goal is to prepare these youth for entry level corporate career positions they would otherwise be unable to obtain. Applicants…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Napier, Ted L.; Jarrett, Charles W. – 1980
Investigation indicated factors other than human resource variables must be used to understand unemployment status. Based on a 1979 survey of a random sample (N=640) of rural adult California residents from a multi-county development district, 15 human resource development factors (including educational level, job training, match of work skills…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Correlation, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities
Bender, Carl M.; Petty, Gregory C. – 1980
This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on Missouri Youth and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this report is divided into five sections. Section 1 presents a geo-economic profile of Missouri by the following regions: (1) the St. Louis…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Carpenter-Huffman, Polly – 1980
Cost effectiveness of on-the-job training (OJT) can be determined by measures of effectiveness and by cost assessing the relationship between output and input. Defining effectiveness to be a measure of what an activity produces leaves two main groups of problems unresolved: hierarchies of effectiveness and multiple outcomes. The most significant…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Input Output Analysis, On the Job Training
Halloran, S. Michael – 1978
The influence of Cicero on the teaching of English composition is slight and in all likelihood diminishing. Among Cicero's beliefs were that rhetoric is the highest of vocations, thought and expression have an essential unity, the question "How should I live?" is paramount, the ideal orator maintains a unity of contemplation and action,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Development. – 1974
The conference report summarizes the state of the art of apprenticeship, as determined by a decade of systematic research, and offers recommendations for changes in policy and in practice. Eighteen papers, all dealing with fundamental problems in apprenticeship and skill training in the United States, were presented at the conference by…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Conference Reports, Costs, Foreign Countries
Santopolo, Frank A.; Kell, Karolyn – 1973
In the past several years utilization of nonprofessionals in various extension programs has increased. In an attempt to determine what the role of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) nonprofessional is, the paper presents the findings of an analysis of critical incidents acquired from nonprofessional EFNEP extension aides…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Critical Incidents Method, Employee Attitudes, Employment Qualifications
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