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Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison. – 1985
A survey of former students of the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) wood technics programs and employers in woodworking industries was conducted during spring of 1985. General objectives were to determine job classifications, types of businesses, and relative importance of tasks or duties in various woodworking-related…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Building Trades, Educational Attitudes
Download full textEvans, Karen; Brown, Alan – 1983
This report presents findings of an evaluation of the Trades Education (TRADEC) schemes to report on the approach's distinctive features and to assess its effectiveness and potential to meet the needs of the populations it serves. Chapter 1 describes the origins and key features of TRADEC courses; succeeding chapters examine how they were…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Britton, Ronald B. – 1982
Four major components comprised the Organizational Development Research Project at Indiana Vocational Technical College (Ivy Tech). The major component of the research was an evaluation of a model of cost effectiveness/benefit analysis previously developed for postsecondary vocational educators in Indiana. Cost data for all Region 8 Ivy Tech…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Livieratos, Barbara B. – 1988
A study was conducted at Maryland's Howard Community College (HCC) to examine employers' views of the job readiness and vocational preparation of HCC graduates. The study sample included 55 employers of 1985 HCC graduates who agreed to have their employer contacted. The nursing program had the highest representation in the study sample, which…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Education Work Relationship
Gabbard, Lydia Carol Moore – 1981
A study compared the cost effectiveness of secondary child care and commercial foods occupational home economics programs in Kentucky. Identified as dependent variables in the study were program effectiveness, cost efficiency, and cost effectiveness ratio. Program expenditures, community size, and program age were considered as independent…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Employer Attitudes
Wirtz, Willard – 1979
This monograph presents a summary and analysis of case study reports on three highly used tuition assistance programs. The programs are those of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of AFSCME; Polaroid Corporation's Tuition Assistance Plan; and the Education Opportunities Plan of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The case studies describe the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Robertson, S.; Dunnell, P. – 1981
This report describes a 1979-80 study of work experience programs in secondary schools in Western Australia and assessment of Education Department guidelines and support structures available to schools. Following a brief introduction (chapter 1), chapter 2 discusses the history and organization of work experience, a popular transition education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes
Main, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
Bliss, Steven – 2000
San Francisco Works (SFWorks) is a collaborative welfare-to-work project conducted by a coalition of large San Francisco-area employers, the city's Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way of the Bay Area. The project was piloted beginning in March 1998 by contracting with five community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide a comprehensive range…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1995
Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and six small businesses used federal grant money to develop a model program of workplace literacy that would assist 600 adult workers with inadequate basic skills in performing their jobs. In analyzing the overall skills of the work force, the literacy audit identified these basic skills/literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Kodz, J.; Dench, S.; Pollard, E.; Evans, C. – 1998
The key skills: communication, numeracy, interpersonal, information technology, learning, and problem-solving have been identified as underlying good performance in the labor market now and in the future. The factors most important to development of key skills and ways of facilitating young people's development of those skills were examined in a…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1986
This publication contains 19 one- or two-page profiles of Illinois teachers, educational administrators, and business people who have contributed greatly to the success of their vocational education students. The profiles are written in the third person but many contain first-person accounts, along with testimony about the subjects by employers,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Students, Business Responsibility, Community Colleges
Bishop, John, Ed. – 1985
This collection includes eight reports of findings from a series of employer surveys designed to assess the effectiveness of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC). The following papers are included: "Introduction," by John Bishop; "Utilization of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit," by John Bishop and Susan Ashbrook; "Multivariate…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Carifio, James; And Others – 1988
A year after graduation, a survey was attempted by the Massachusetts Board of Regents of all 1981-82 career graduates of public community colleges in the state (N=5,267). Of the 1,881 responding graduates, 847 reported that they were employed full-time, and 737 of the working graduates gave the board permission to contact their employers for an…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Wheeler, Linda – 1980
The 1979/80 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Youth Employment Training Program in the Phoenix Union High School District was evaluated in two ways: (1) enrollment figures and participant demographics were compared to project goals; and (2) opinion surveys of participants, job-site supervisors, youth advisors, and parents of participants…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Federal Programs, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
