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Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2017
The Certification Data Exchange Project (CDEP) was launched in 2012 to provide a model for sharing industry-recognized credential attainment data. Increasingly, employers and education leaders are recognizing the value of industry credentials to verify the knowledge, skills and abilities that students bring to the workforce. As states take steps…
Descriptors: Industry, Outcomes of Education, Labor Force Development, Certification
Bartik, Timothy J.; Gormley, William; Adelstein, Shirley – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2011
This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These informed projections help to compensate for the lack of long-term data on universal pre-K programs, while using metrics that relate test scores to valued social benefits. Combining test-score data from the fall of 2006 and recent…
Descriptors: Wages, Salaries, Income, Disadvantaged Youth
Smith, Paula A. – 1982
A comparative followup technique was used to assess sex nontraditional vocational training efforts in Oklahoma during the 1978-79 and 1979-80 school years. The dropout behavior, labor force participation, unemployment, training related employment, and wages of sex nontraditional and sex traditional students were compared. Training and labor…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females
Frazier, Don – 1981
The major purpose of this study was to identify unique effects of cooperative vocational education. This interim report is of results of the analyses of existing data bases. Comparisons of cooperative and non-cooperative vocational programs are made on the following variables: enrollments by age, sex and race, school status, work status,…
Descriptors: Age, Cooperative Education, Employer Attitudes, Enrollment
Hargrave, Lou A.; And Others – 1983
This study analyzed Oklahoma's completion status reports, student follow-up findings, employers' ratings, and wages of secondary and adult traditional and nontraditional students from vocational and technical education programs for fiscal years 1978-79, 1979-80, and 1980-81. (Complete statistical data calculations for each area analyzed are…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes, Employment Patterns
Michalopoulos, Charles; Schwartz, Christine – 2000
The impacts of 20 welfare-to-work programs across the United States were evaluated to determine which clients derive the greatest benefits from different approaches to moving individuals from welfare to work. Of the 20 programs examined, 7 were characterized as employment focused, 5 provided a mix of first activities without an employment focus, 4…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis
Bos, Johannes M.; Scrivener, Susan; Snipes, Jason; Hamilton, Gayle – 2002
The effects of adult education in welfare-to-work programs were examined in a national evaluation of welfare-to-work strategies. The evaluation used a random research design to estimate the overall effects of welfare-to-work programs in the following states: Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, and California. The study focused on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, College Programs