Designed to research and document whether monies spent on vocational training produce benefits for the recipients, this study involved a population of 857 Montana high school graduates of the classes of 1970 and 1971 who were between twenty-three and twenty-five years old at the time of the survey and who had been employed in Montana during at…

This study determined the impact of vocational agriculture training on the continued learning patterns of former Montana vocational agriculture students who graduated from high school between 1980 and 1985. Data for the study were gathered through the use of mailed questionnaires sent to a sample of 500 former students, with a return of 281 usable…

A survey of a sample of employers, high school vocational education completers, and postsecondary vocational education completers was taken to determine their perceptions of the current delivery system, student outcomes from vocational training, and the extent to which vocational education was meeting the labor market needs of the state of…

A study of the 1989 graduates of postsecondary vocational-technical programs in Montana was designed to provide insight into how graduates selected the schools, their level of satisfaction with training and student services provided while they were in school, and information on their present employment and plans for the future. Survey packets were…

A follow-up study was conducted of the 1988 graduates of vocational-technical centers, three community colleges, and Northern Montana College. Data were gathered through a survey form mailed to 714 graduates (from a sample of 1,258), yielding 300 responses (43 percent). Approximately 33 percent of the respondents received a degree in technical…