Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 2 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 23 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 47 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 65 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
| Ekstrom, Ruth B. | 3 |
| Tindall, Lloyd W. | 3 |
| Chukwuedo, Samson Onyeluka | 2 |
| Evans, Carl | 2 |
| Faddis, Constance R. | 2 |
| Ferns, Sonia | 2 |
| Ferroggiaro, Enzo | 2 |
| Hall, Bo | 2 |
| Jackson, Denise | 2 |
| Karageorge, Kathy | 2 |
| Lamb, Yvette | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
Education Level
| Higher Education | 48 |
| Postsecondary Education | 47 |
| Two Year Colleges | 8 |
| Secondary Education | 7 |
| High Schools | 4 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
Audience
| Practitioners | 45 |
| Teachers | 17 |
| Policymakers | 9 |
| Counselors | 7 |
| Administrators | 6 |
| Students | 6 |
| Community | 4 |
| Researchers | 2 |
| Parents | 1 |
Location
| United Kingdom | 12 |
| New York (New York) | 11 |
| Australia | 10 |
| Canada | 8 |
| Florida | 8 |
| New York | 7 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 |
| Massachusetts (Boston) | 6 |
| Michigan | 6 |
| Washington | 6 |
| California | 5 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| General Educational… | 2 |
| Myers Briggs Type Indicator | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 1 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
| Does not meet standards | 1 |
Download full textTuskegee Inst., AL. – 1965
This 52-week Tuskegee Institute project, undertaken in 1964 to train a sample of culturally deprived male heads of households in Alabama, included vocational skills (brickmasonry, carpentry, farm machinery, and meat processing), academic skills (mathematics, English, and remedial reading), group, individual, and family counseling, medical care,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Counseling, College Programs, Disadvantaged
Olive, Robert O. – 1973
The objectives of the three-year Vocational Opportunities Integrated in Current Education (VOICE) project, carried on in the San Antonio Independent School District, were to develop and implement a career development and occupational awareness model program for elementary through senior high school students, to add dignity to the world of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Social Research Group. – 1971
This paper reports the results of a Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) prospective study, which are based on program-sourced information and second-round followup interviews with study subjects. The primary hypothesis that the NYC programs studied had helped enrollees achieve satisfactory adjustment to life and to the world of work was not confirmed,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedCoffin, Donald A. – Evaluation Review, 1983
A planning model to improve performance in generating positive terminations of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants is described. Sponsors can improve performance by selecting participants with particular characteristics and altering types of services. This approach is useful for any social services which result in…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Job Placement, Job Skills, Local Government
Peer reviewedHull, Glynda – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Reports on the experiences of students in a community college vocational program (approximately 60% African American and 30% Asian American) in banking and finance and the jobs students got and lost in the data center of a bank. Concerns about workers' literacy problems are explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Banking, Basic Skills, Black Studies
Kogan, Deborah; And Others – 1991
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs impart job-related skills to economically disadvantaged individuals to improve both their immediate post-program employment and their long-term employment potential. To assess the quality of the training currently provided under JTPA, a study looked at program designs and service delivery practices in…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1990
The Part-Time Jobs portion of the Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Program in New York City provided job-readiness training and job placements in an effort to motivate students to improve academic achievement and school attendance. Programs were implemented at schools with a student attendance rate at or below the citywide median…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Community Organizations, Disadvantaged Youth
Faddis, Constance R.; Long, James P. – 1986
The demonstration project described in this report was designed to explore the value of job clubs in preparing two-year college students with disabilities for the transition from school to work. The demonstration sites were Chicago City-Wide College (CCC), Columbus Technical Institute (CTI) (Ohio), and the Community Colleges of Rhode Island (CCRI)…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Horn, Adelaide; Drury, Stephen – 1980
This handbook stresses those components that are considered peripheral to the placement process but that must precede the actual placement. The philosophy of placement upon which this guide is based appears first. Discussions follow of the basic components of the process of training and placement of handicapped individuals, including a varied…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Job Analysis, Job Placement
Bettis, Glenn E.; Hyder, Carroll R. – 1978
A study was conducted to develop and implement a one- and five-year student and employer-based follow-up study of secondary vocational education programs in Tennessee. Questionnaires were sent to 1,013 students who graduated in 1975-76 and to 92 of their employers. It was found that (1) students in both groups rated the Tennessee vocational…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Failure
Gurin, Gerald – 1970
Covering 5,891 trainees in a nationwide sample of 324 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) classes, this longitudinal study concentrated on how trainee attitudes and motives relate to program completion versus dropping out, and to subsequent job histories. Wage rate, extent or duration of employment, completion, dropout status (for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Employment Level, Family Status
Peer reviewedBrown, Dale S. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1989
Explores how learning disabled are affected by demographic changes in workforce. Concludes that development of academic skills will become increasingly important for learning disabled as skill levels required by job market continue to rise. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Counseling, Employment Projections, Futures (of Society)
J.M. Foundation, New York, NY. – 1990
This publication provides information on 1989 winners of the Search for Excellence award for outstanding vocational service programs for people with disabilities. A history and description of the search appears first. A winner and two finalists are described in each of four categories. An introduction to each category discusses typical applicant…
Descriptors: Awards, Community Colleges, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
John M. Patterson State Technical Coll., Montgomery, AL. – 1991
A cooperative demonstration program between industry (General Electric) and education (John Patterson State Technical College, Alabama) designed and conducted a training program and competency assessment for individuals entering high technology positions related to industrial production in Alabama. The program was designed to develop employees as…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Followup Studies
Smith, Shirley H.; Yorke, Deon – 1998
This report contains results of a survey at Bronx Community College (New York) that queried career placement counselors on how their field had changed over the past 5 years and what changes they foresaw for the future. Questions were open-ended and directed toward identifying problems and shifts in career planning and placement. More than half of…
Descriptors: Budgets, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Colleges
