Reports on a study in which data extracted from U.S. Individual Income Tax returns filed by vocational trainees three years after their graduation are used to analyze their economic performance (including income and employment rate), and their geographic mobility patterns. (CT)

The present status of information on employer satisfaction with former secondary level vocational education students, as well as current methods being used to collect employer data, are reviewed. The kind and quality of information appear to be closely related to the methodology employed. (Author)

A study to identify the influence of vocational education on an individual's underemployment analyzed data from a Taiwan labor use survey conducted in May 1993. Data were restricted to 9,415 respondents who were currently employed, aged 20-65, and not in the army; who had participated in general or vocational high school education; and for whom…

A follow-up study was conducted of a 20 percent sample of secondary schools (77) and administrators in Iowa who had students who completed or left vocational programs during the 1984-85 school year. A student follow-up surveyed 1,945 students, and 153 employers were queried. Information was sought through a mailed survey. Student responses were…

Responding to surveys by the State Council on Vocational Technical Education, Minnesota's technical institutes identified 1,169 of their students who graduated during the 10-year period prior to 1984 and who subsequently established or purchased business enterprises. The collection and analysis of these data represented key steps by the Council,…

This manual presents a system of precedures constructed to improve occupational student follow-up in California community colleges. First, introductory material describes the development of the Student Accountability Model (SAM) project; presents two levels of guidelines for the system--essential and highly desirable; and enumerates assumptions…

THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE PRESENT JOB STATUS, THE JOB OR EDUCATIONAL STATUS AS OF OCTOBER 1959, THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND NATURE OF FORMAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES, THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND GRADES OF JOBS HELD, AND THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF THE GRADUATES WHO HAD COMPLETED 3 OR MORE YEARS OF…

RECORDS IN THE OFFICE OF THE UTAH STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION WERE SURVEYED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH TERMINAL HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL STUDENTS ENTERED WORK IN THE OCCUPATION FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED, IN RELATED OCCUPATIONS, AND IN AREAS UNRELATED TO THEIR HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL PROGRAM. ONLY 1966 GRADUATES WERE STUDIED.…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OF FORMER STUDENTS, THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEIR EMPLOYMENT WAS RELATED TO TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE, THE EFFECT OF ENROLLMENT TENURE ON EVENTUAL EMPLOYMENT, AND THE EMPLOYMENT RATE. THE SAMPLE FROM 12 SCHOOLS INCLUDED 794 FORMER STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED OR DROPPED OUT OF…

Field-tested procedures to collect followup data on former students of vocational education programs are described in the document. The procedures presented are designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and reporting of information on jobs obtained and their relationship to training programs, and the income, geographic mobility, and the…

This project was conducted to assess the condition of followup studies throughout the state and to develop an instrument for gathering data relative to the employment and educational status of former students of the community colleges and technical institutes in the North Carolina system. Data-gathering instruments and existing data from the…

This document supplements ED 025 264, a study of 2,459 individuals enrolled in one of 43 occupation-centered curricula in 20 California junior colleges. The parent study compared students' questionnaire responses about home and educational backgrounds, and about attitudes presumably related to both vocational choice and choice of curricula leading…

This review of followup studies of graduates of vocational-technical education programs includes studies published since 1965 and covers the major fields of vocational-technical education at secondary, post secondary, and adult levels. Programs for special groups of individuals are also included. Two purposes of the review are (1) to identify the…

This follow-up survey of Hawaii Community College vocational-technical graduates from 1968-1971 was undertaken to (1) indicate general trends in their labor force status, and (2) determine how these trends might be used to evaluate present programs. The first part of the report presents cumulative trends for 1968-1971, and the second part focuses…

OVER A 5-YEAR PERIOD, 4,631 VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE GRADUATES FROM 127 OF OKLAHOMA'S 383 HIGH SCHOOLS WITH A PROGRAM IN THIS AREA WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY WERE TAKING UP FARMING AS AN OCCUPATION OR WERE ENTERING THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING FIELD OF "AGRIBUSINESS," AND TO WHAT EXTENT THESE GRADUATES WERE USING THIS VOCATIONAL…