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Download full textMei, 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
Howieson, Cathy – 1989
The purpose of this study was to describe the recent extent and distribution of work experience of young people in Scotland, using data from the Scottish Young People's Survey (SYPS). SYPS, based on a 10 percent sample of all schools in Scotland, is conducted biennially in spring by mail and achieves a response rate of around 80 percent. In the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Education, Foreign Countries, Job Placement
MOORE, JAMES W. – 1963
STEP IS A PART-TIME SCHOOL, PART-TIME WORK PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS 15 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. PUPILS ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND WORK IN THE AFTERNOONS. THE TEACHER-COORDINATOR PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE AND MEETS WITH A GROUP OF 15 TO 20 PUPILS DAILY TO "ORIENT" THEM TO SCHOOL AND WORK EXPERIENCES.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Job Training, Part Time Employment
Stern, David – 1997
This digest briefly reviews the ways that working affects students, and describes ways that schools can partner with businesses to increase the educational benefits of working. The economic payoff for students who work in high school is well-established, including a positive association between the amount of high school work experience and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship
Direct linkMihail, Dimitrios M. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: Greece has the highest youth unemployment rate in the European Union. Even though it is clear that persistent unemployment requires bold measures in engaging young educated Greeks in the labour market, there is no coherent policy targeting that population group, especially university students. This research paper aims to explore the idea…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Undergraduate Students, Youth Employment, Part Time Employment
Chaplin, Duncan; Hannaway, Jane – 1996
Benefits and drawbacks to the employment of high school students were studied using data from the High School and Beyond Survey (HS&B). A literature review was followed by an analysis that used final samples of between 6,000 and 10,000 HS&B students depending on the regression performed. These students were sophomores in 1980 and were resurveyed…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
McGillicuddy (Shirley) & Associates, Sierra Madre, CA. – 1992
The Implementation of Job Placement Services Guidelines Project was designed to strengthen placement programs and services for California community college vocational students, and for all students needing part-time employment to realize their educational goals. The project was designed to test the validity and relevance of quality indicators…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Services, Followup Studies, Job Placement
Lowering Expectations: The Impact of Student Employment on Classroom Knowledge. Program Report 84-1.
McNeil, Linda M. – 1984
A study examined the impact of student employment on classroom knowledge. During the study, the researcher administered a branching questionnaire to 1,577 juniors and seniors from four high schools in Wisconsin, 59.6 percent of whom were working at the time of the survey and 14.1 percent of whom had worked during the past year. Despite the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Employment Patterns, High School Students, Influences
Hamilton, Stephen F. – Curriculum Review, 1988
Discusses study of tenth and eleventh graders that was undertaken to determine how paid employment influences the behavior and attitudes of adolescents. Topics discussed include the development of responsibility, isolation from adults, negative effects of working, and West Germany's system of apprenticeship combined with part-time schooling. (10…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Developed Nations, Experiential Learning
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2003
Findings from the first four annual survey rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 provided data on employment experiences of a nationally representative sample of about 9,000 young men and women born during 1980-84. The survey indicated that the percent of students employed in employee jobs during any week of the 1999-2000 school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Age Differences, Career Education
McHewitt, Earl R. – 1998
This report documents the employment status of Virginia Community College System (VCCS) students. In fall 1996, all 24 colleges involved in the study had at least a 50% working student population, and nearly 41% of all VCCS students were working full-time and also taking classes. A profile of business and industry showed that community colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Research, Employers, Employment
Steinberg, Laurence; Dornbusch, Sanford M. – 1990
This study examined the relation between part-time employment and adolescent behavior and development in a multi-ethnic, multi-class sample of approximately 4,000 15- through 18-year-olds. The results indicated that long work hours during the school year were associated with diminished investment in schooling and lowered school performance,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Hotchkiss, Lawrence; And Others – 1984
This report contains four studies related to preparation of youth for employment after leaving school. The first study, "Learning as a Product of Exposure and Readiness" (Hotchkiss), examined the effects of curriculum on the learning of basic skills using an interaction model. The data collected revealed statistically significant interactions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum
Lewis, Morgan V.; And Others – 1983
This study was conducted to describe the work experience being obtained by high school students and to relate that to educational and labor market outcomes. A special emphasis of the study was to determine if school supervision or monitoring has any apparent influence on the nature or outcomes of work experience. Data for the study were obtained…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, High School Students
Peer reviewedWooden, Mark; And Others – Australian Journal of Education, 1994
Using data from an Australian longitudinal survey, a study investigated the relationship between part-time employment and the decisions to pursue higher education and to persist after the first year. Results show employment was not critical to persistence. However, employment during secondary school reduced the likelihood of college attendance for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, College Bound Students, College Students
