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PDF pending restorationLewis, Morgan V. – 1983
This paper synthesizes the results of recent research on the labor market outcomes associated with participation in secondary vocational education. It is based on 10 studies conducted with national data and reported since passage of the 1976 amendments to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Despite the problems of analyzing vocational outcomes…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Females
Broadbent, William A. – 1981
A study was conducted in 1980 to ascertain employer attitudes toward and satisfaction with the performance of graduates of vocational education programs in Hawaii. Interviews with 41 employers, who employed an average of 132 workers, sought general perceptions of the knowledge, quality of work, written and oral skills, dependability, adaptability,…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Job Performance, Labor Force Development
Bettis, Glenn E.; Hyder, Carroll R. – 1978
A study was conducted to develop and implement a one- and five-year student and employer-based follow-up study of secondary vocational education programs in Tennessee. Questionnaires were sent to 1,013 students who graduated in 1975-76 and to 92 of their employers. It was found that (1) students in both groups rated the Tennessee vocational…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Failure
Morton, J. B.; And Others – 1977
Two methods used to collect follow-up data on vocational education graduates to determine their postgraduate occupational and educational activities are (1) to ask the graduates themselves and (2) to ask the teachers to report the status of their graduates. The objective of this study was to compare data that was collected using each method and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Graduate Surveys
Download full textArkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1976
A project was conducted to develop and implement a school and community-based guidance, counseling, placement, and follow-up program that would place counselors and support personnel in an optimum position to meet the individual career-planning needs of every student, including the occupationally inclined. Specific project goals were to develop…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs
Waters, Randol G., Comp. – 1993
Selected papers are as follows: "Analysis of Factors Used in Student Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness" (Vaughn et al.); "Assessment of the Readability Level of State Adopted High School Agriculture Textbooks" (Hitchner, Deeds); "Attitudes and Perceptions of Superintendents, Principals, Guidance Counselors, and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Biotechnology, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Schroeder, Wayne E. – 1990
Fifty-three supervisors in private sector firms and public sector organizations in central Ohio responded to questions about 16 aspects of productivity in the workplace. The firms and organizations with which these supervisors were associated had a history of hiring vocational-technical education graduates as well as those who had pursued other…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience, Employment Potential
Peterson, Charlene M.; And Others – 1987
From September through November 1986, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) conducted a follow-up survey of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) 8% program participants in the 1985-86 school year. The DPI is responsible for administering half of the JTPA 8% Education Coordination and Grants for economically disadvantaged youth, ages…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Gittman, Elizabeth – 1987
The final report describes the objectives and accomplishments of Project COMPETE, a 3-year project in New York State whose purpose was to develop secondary and transitional postsecondary programming for training youth with severe disabilities in skills necessary to achieve a successful transition from school to vocational opportunities in their…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Daily Living Skills, Education Work Relationship, Job Placement
Uthe, Elaine F. – 1980
The objective of a project was to make vocational educators aware of the many job titles for which physically handicapped persons are currently employed and to aid in planning vocational programs for them. The project identified a list of occupational titles held by physically handicapped individuals, identified teaching procedures for the various…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Mitchell, William E.
The Akron-Summit county Public Schools Job Placement Department utilizes four basic components: data, pre-employment preparation, preparation, placement, and follow-up. The model functions on the basis of broadly drawn and centrally coordinated employment regions or service areas and hence avoids problems which individual school districts…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counselor Role, Guidance Programs
Wasil, Raymond A.
Ohio's job placement services' history reveals an emphasis on college-bound and vocationally trained students to the exclusion of placement aid for general education students. A more comprehensive approach to job placement services for all students is urged and Title I of the Vocational Education Amendment of 1968 is quoted to support the need for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment Counselors
Gibson, Robert L.; Mitchell, Marianne H. – 1976
A study was conducted to identify placement and followup practices common to successful programs, and to strengthen those aspects of pre- and/or inservice training which prepare local counseling and guidance personnel to function more effectively in implementing local placement and followup efforts. A total of 3,218 schools from 26 states were…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Employment Counselors, Guidance Objectives
Bishop, John – Vocational Education Journal, 1989
Occupationally specific vocational training pays off for disadvantaged students, but only if graduates work in the jobs for which they were trained. The implication is that vocational educators must help make sure that the skills they teach are used. (JOW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dropout Rate, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Schaeffer, Earl R.; Shannon, Theodore P. – 1983
A study was conducted to gather follow-up data on inmates who were graduated from vocational education programs in the Ohio Central School System in 1979. During the study, researchers examined the parole records of 650 inmates who successfully completed and were graduated from vocational programs in seven penal institutions in the school system.…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
