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Direct linkBaird, Matthew D.; Hunter, Gerald P.; Edenfield, Nathaniel; Broten, Nicholas; Gonzalez, Gabriella C. – RAND Corporation, 2020
The authors of this report aim to understand the health of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and labor market in the Appalachia region -- defined as the intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia -- with a focus on the mining and extraction industry. This report is the third in a three-part series.…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
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Download full textHarris, Julie C.; Warner, Miya T.; Yee, Kaily; Wilkerson, Stephanie B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. Understanding the alignment between high school CTE programs and the labor market is an important step in this process. To support CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. This study quantifies the system-level alignment between West Virginia's high school CTE programs and the labor market. West Virginia…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "Assessing the Alignment between West Virginia's High School Career and Technical Education Programs and the Labor Market." The study found that 70 percent of West Virginia's long-term projected employment openings typically require some occupational preparation beyond a high school diploma but…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2017
One unique and critical element of Career Technical Education (CTE) pathways is that they offer learners exposure and access to authentic experiences inside and outside the classroom. For these opportunities to be guaranteed, industry must play a key role in the design, development and delivery of CTE pathways, including in rural communities. This…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Education, Access to Education, Experiential Learning
BAILEY, JOSEPH K. – 1965
OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS WERE ASSESSED AS A BASIS FOR PROJECTING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES INCLUDED (1) IDENTIFICATION OF FIRMS EMPLOYING PERSONS WITH AGRICULTURAL COMPETENCIES, (2) DETERMINATION OF NUMBERS OF EMPLOYEES IN OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS, (3) DETERMINATION OF THE JOB ENTRY REQUIREMENTS, AND…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Skills, Educational Needs
Wayman, W. H. – Agr Educ Mag, 1970
Reports educational attainment, occupations, and income for 32 former state Future Farmers of American presidents in West Virginia. (DM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Background, Evaluation, Income
Snyder, Todd D. – Community Literacy Journal, 2007
I conducted a survey in order to determine whether or not the cultural values shared by parents from a poor mountain town in West Virginia discourage high school students from pursuing a college education. The results suggest that the persistence of poverty in rural Webster County can be attributed to the region's traditional set of cultural…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Economically Disadvantaged, Counties, Values
ALTMAN, JAMES W. – 1966
THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO (1) DEVELOP AND VERIFY METHODS FOR DETERMINING GENERAL CAPABILITIES REQUIRED FOR JOBS, (2) DESCRIBE THE GENERAL VOCATIONAL CAPABILITIES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND RELATE THEM TO INTELLECTUAL APTITUDES AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, AND (3) DERIVE EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS FROM AN ANALYSIS OF THESE GENERAL VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Research, Job Skills, Occupations
West Virginia State Vocational Curriculum Lab., Cedar Lakes. – 1981
This publication is the teacher's guide for the competency-based curriculum in prevocational health exploration for secondary students in West Virginia. After the introduction, which provides a rationale for competency-based instruction in the prevocational curriculum, the following sections are included in the guide: development and validation of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Career Education, Career Exploration, Competence
West Virginia State Vocational Curriculum Lab., Cedar Lakes. – 1981
This publication contains the student materials for the comptency-based curriculum in prevocational health exploration for secondary students in West Virginia. These student materials consist of a student competency sheet for each of the 31 competencies (arranged in 10 learning modules) of the curriculum. Each competency sheet states the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Career Education, Career Exploration, Competence
Eberle, Fred W.; Smith, Rex M. – 1969
This report covers the period from May 1967 when the Research Coordinating Unit was officially established, through August 1969. Consultative activities concerned such matters as surveys to determine educational needs, an interagency adult basic education and skill training project, graduate teacher education, and health occupations education.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Surveys
Kendall, Elizabeth L. – 1983
Nontraditional and traditional secondary vocational education program completers in West Virginia were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward their school preparation, work, and encountered work barriers. A questionnaire was mailed to 100 nontraditional and 100 traditional program completers, and a 10 percent sample was contacted by…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes, Environmental Influences
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The seven papers in this volume address three topics: the economic effects of vocational education, occupational projections, and coordination among institutions providing training. The first paper analyzes high school vocational education from an economic viewpoint, while the second examines the effects of vocational training coupled with the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adults, Articulation (Education), Cost Effectiveness
West Virginia State Dept. of Education, Charleston. – 1992
This annual review is a synthesis of the West Virginia Division of Technical and Adult Education Services programs and plans at the conclusion of fiscal year 1991. It begins with letters from the State Superintendent of Schools and Assistant State Superintendent. West Virginia Board of Education mission and goals and the division's programmatic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annual Reports
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