PLACEMENT DATA ARE REPORTED FOR 5,066 VOCATIONAL GRADUATES FROM 83 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN CONNECTICUT REPRESENTING PROGRAM FIELDS IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE, DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION, HOME ECONOMICS FOR GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS AND OFFICE EDUCATION, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. OF THE 5,066…

Job success and steady work are more important to students today than making a lot of money; moreover, the values students place on job success, steady work, and making money diminish as students progress through high school and enter college and the world of work. These findings are based on the longitudinal study High School and Beyond…

In June 1988, 742 students graduated from Saginaw and Arthur Hill High Schools. To determine what they have been doing since graduation the Department of Evaluation Services in conjunction with the Office of Adult and Continuing Education developed a 10-item telephone survey. In addition to collecting graduate follow-up information the survey was…

In the fall of 1981, a survey of the Class of 1976 was conducted to gather information about both what the students had done since completing high school and their opinions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of their high school program. Generally, courses in all areas were rated as satisfactory or excellent, with music receiving especially…

This analysis originally prepared for the Japan Study Meeting, held November 1985, compares high school graduates in the United States and Japan who will not attend college, and includes directions of vocational training in both countries. Vocational training in the United States involves five areas: secondary schools, post-secondary schools,…

This publication presents a summary of the research obtained from senior high schools in Minnesota using the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-Up System to collect data on the class of 1986. A total of 126 (out of 150) high schools sought information from 20,930 students, with a 70 percent useable response rate (N=14,674). Following the first…

This paper describes the contours of a program of research focused on Australian youth and the transition they make within and between education and work. The project was initiated in 1978 and centered on longitudinal mail surveys. Questionnaires were sent to three cohorts aged 24 to 25 years old, 20 to 21 years, and 15 to 16 years. Samples…

A study analyzed the high school, higher education, and employment experience of high school graduates by curriculum type in order to determine how the Greene County Vocational Technical School (Pennsylvania) might better address the education and career interests of high school students and the skill requirements of employers. Transcript data…

This five-section guide is intended to lead marketing education personnel through the program evaluation and improvement process in Missouri. The first section is an introduction that provides a rationale for evaluation, discusses the resource, process, and product standards that should be used and suggests ways these standards can be applied. The…

A study compared the high school, postsecondary, and work experience records of graduates from four different high school programs--academic, general, area vocational technical school (AVTS) and home school vocational programs (HSVOC)--for the years 1984-88. The research was conducted during the 1988-89 school year in the attendance area of the…

This model evaluation program was developed to help marketing education teachers in Missouri to evaluate their courses and plan improvements. Following an explanation of the rationale and nature of the evaluation, the guide consists of six sections: (1) a marketing education course enrollment summary form and directions for completing the…

This publication presents a summary of the research obtained from senior high schools in Minnesota that used the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-Up System to collect data on the class of 1987. Data were collected from 84 high schools, plus a sampling of Minneapolis, with responses received from 10,705 students (76.8% of those surveyed). Of the…

How can policy makers and the public judge whether proprietary schools are heroes or villains? A review of six studies on proprietaries and two studies conducted in Minnesota attempted to answer the question. Five of the six studies examined reported that proprietary schools students are more likely to complete a program than public school…

The activities and experiences of students who were high school seniors in 1980 were surveyed four years later. Data were provided from the High School and Beyond base-year survey (1980), the first follow-up in 1982, and the second in the spring of 1984, focusing on the graduates' educational, vocational, socioeconomic and familial status, and…

A 1988 study that examined the economic performance of 22,091 graduates in 1984 of 14 vocational programs in Ohio used federal income tax records. Twelve of the programs with 20,557 graduates were at the secondary level, and 2 with 1,534 graduates were at the associate level. The incomes of vocational graduates were compared to income of…