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Download full textPreston County Board of Education, Kingwood, WV. – 1972
This federally funded exemplary project in vocational education for an Appalachian county in West Virginia focused on developmental career planning for disadvantaged students in nine county high schools. Specifically concentrating on an integrated vocational curriculum for Grades 9 and 10, teacher-developed units were designed to orient Grade 9…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
Minnesota State Dept. of Economic Security, St. Paul. – 1996
This report, based on employment data for 1994 Minnesota technical college graduates, is intended to provide information that will enable prospective students make informed educational and career decisions. The report, organized into six sections, includes: (1) An introduction, with definitions of terms and a list of technical college programs in…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Information Systems
New Hampshire State Dept. of Postsecondary Technical Education, Concord. – 1990
This annual placement report provides information on the students who graduated from the New Hampshire Technical Institute and the six New Hampshire Vocational Technical Colleges in 1990. The report presents statewide data on the educational and job status of the graduates; their field of employment; numbers and percentages of graduates employed…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship
PDF pending restorationHavlic, S.; And Others – 1992
As part of the overall evaluation of its journalism program, William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), in Palatine, Illinois, conducted a follow-up survey of students who had completed three or more journalism courses between 1985 and 1990 to determine current activities and perceptions of the program. Questionnaires were mailed to all 80…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Brevard Community Coll., Cocoa, FL. – 1983
A project was undertaken at Brevard Community College in Florida to provide special placement and followup assistance to persons entering nontraditional occupations. Included among the major project activities were the following: efforts to raise the consciousness of women about opportunities in nontraditional careers through a seminar on…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Employment Opportunities
Gebert, Henriette D.; Lucas, John A. – 1982
A follow-up study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to evaluate the dietetic technician program and to obtain externally required information. Questionnaires were sent to all 79 of the students who had graduated from the program between 1975 and 1981. Study findings, based on responses from 67% of the program graduates,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Woods, Harvey S. – 1978
To facilitate curriculum improvement and career counseling in the field of agriculture, a survey was conducted to determine the marketability, or job placement, of the 1977 agriculture graduates from both two-year and four-year colleges in Illinois. A questionnaire was sent to the 1,832 graduates and was returned by 665. In response to a separate…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations
Kirby, Emily B. – 1980
Comparisons were made between Oakton Community College (OCC) fiscal year 1978 occupational graduates and occupational graduates of other Illinois public community colleges based upon a statewide follow-up study conducted in September 1979. The following areas were compared: evaluation of college services, impact of community college education,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Counseling, College Attendance, Community Colleges
Smith, Charles W.; And Others – 1975
To provide an effective and available source of data on placement and follow-up of vocational education in Louisiana, a comprehensive follow-up system was designed for collecting information on students in secondary or postsecondary vocational programs from the time they complete or leave with marketable skills until five years following their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection
Pennsylvania State Council on Vocational Education, Harrisburg. – 1991
This annual report describes activities and accomplishments of the Pennsylvania Council on Vocational Education (PACVE). It begins with letters from the: Chair of PACVE, Governor, Secretary of Education, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Director of the Bureau of Vocational-Technical Education. Other contents include listings…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Asselin, Susan B. – 1987
This guide is designed to help vocational education teachers prepare students with special needs to make a successful transition from school to employment. The guide is organized in five chapters. The first chapter provides a definition of transition and a model for transition from special education or vocational education to the community. In…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Kapes, Jerome T.; Mason, Suzanne L. – 1976
The objective of the Pennsylvania longitudinal vocational development study was to produce and disseminate vocational development research to vocational directors and counselors to help them have an impact on vocational guidance and job placement activities. Ministudies were conducted using previously collected data relating in-school student and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Counselors, Educational Experience
Healas, Donald V. – 1978
Vocational education does not create jobs, but rather is a force in readiness, meeting the demand for workers by the business-industrial complex. At the heart of the process of providing job opportunities to urban youth in Cleveland are the vocational teachers and teacher coordinators who have the primary responsibility for placement and followup.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. – 1978
Summaries are included here for all vocational research projects in Florida from 1965 to 1976 as well as a few 1977 projects which have been completed. The format for the entries is informative data (title, organization, project director, expenditures, project duration, and project number), problem to be addressed, objectives to be met, procedures…
Descriptors: Administration, Agriculture, Business Education, Career Education
BUENAVENTURA, ANGELES – 1967
REPRESENTATIVES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FORMER MIGRANTS (FARM WORKERS) AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, NEGRO AND WHITE, PARTICIPATED IN A PROGRAM, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT UNSKILLED PERSONS WITH LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION AND LIMITED COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED AND PLACED IN OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THERE WAS LOCAL DEMAND AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs
