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Iowa Department of Education, 2018
The Pathways for Academic Career and Employment (PACE) program is established to provide funding to community colleges for the development of programs that will lead to gainful, quality, in-state employment for members of target populations by providing them with both effective academic and employment training to ensure gainful employment and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Job Training, Employment Programs, State Programs
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2017
The pathways for academic career and employment program (PACE) is established to provide funding to community colleges for the development of projects that will lead to gainful, quality, in-state employment for members of target populations by providing them with both effective academic and employment training to ensure gain. This is the fourth…
Descriptors: Career Education, Job Training, Outreach Programs, State Programs
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2016
The pathways for academic career and employment program (PACE) is established to provide funding to community colleges for the development of projects that will lead to gainful, quality, in-state employment for members of target populations by providing them with both effective academic and employment training to ensure gain. This is the third…
Descriptors: Career Education, Job Training, Outreach Programs, State Programs
Iowa Department of Education, 2016
This report is Iowa's response to the four questions that the United States Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), requires of all states and territories receiving federal funding through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA). The overall goal of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Career Education, Technical Education
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1996
This publication contains the reports for six Iowa Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) pilot projects conducted at the following community colleges: Northeast Iowa Community College, Eastern Iowa Community College, Kirkwood Community College, Western Iowa Tech Community College, Indian Hills Community College, and Southeastern…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Strom, Mary L. – 1994
In fall 1992, the Iowa Department of Education began pilot tests of the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS), an assessment system evaluating reading, math, and problem solving in a life skills context for adult remedial programs. This document provides reports from the nine community colleges that served as test sites, describing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation. – 1997
In view of federal legislation being proposed for the reauthorization of the Adult Education Act that promotes increased program accountability and benchmarking of learner outcomes, this publication has been prepared as part of an effort to document student achievement in Iowa. Based on studies that have taken place over the past 17 years, this…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation. – 1998
First-year evaluation results of Iowa's Basic Skills Certification pilot program were reported for the four community colleges participating: Northeast Iowa, Des Moines Area, Western Iowa Tech, and Iowa Western. The pilot sites represented a variety of adult basic education instructional environments that included a workforce development center,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates
Van Ast, John – 1989
This document considers whether postsecondary education can change the way it operates. The introduction identifies six challenges of the 1990s, including heterogeneous student populations; quality of working life competence, basic competence, employability competence, learning-to-learn competence, common core competencies, and the arts and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Change