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Ringel, Paul Joseph – 1981
In response to expanding American industry in the late 1800s, manual training and industrial education were proposed to prepare properly trained workers. Industrial education was advocated as education for specific trades, and cooperative education was one of its most innovative forms. The first high school cooperative industrial course in the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Education, Educational History, Educational Research
Download full textNoeth, Richard J.; Jepsen, David A. – 1980
A total of 1,994 students (approximately 70% of those who participated in the American College Testing Program's Nationwide Study of Career Development) who were working more than half-time three years later responded to an extensive mailed questionnaire followup study seeking to describe the predictability of actual job choice from expressed…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Employment Level
Kim, Jin Eun – 1980
A project was conducted to study impacts of vocational education research and development with special emphasis on the job placement and followup program in Indiana. The specific objectives were (1) to investigate the impact of R & D projects in vocational education and the conceptual and methodological problems in impact studies, and (2) to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Followup Studies, Job Placement, Program Development
Dunlap and Associates, Inc., Darien, CT. – 1967
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS OF 1,416 NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ENROLLEES WHO TERMINATED FROM 50 RANDOMLY SELECTED OUT-OF-SCHOOL PROJECTS BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 1966, AND SEPTEMBER 30, 1966, AND SECONDARY SOURCE DATA ON AN ADDITIONAL 572 TERMINEES PROVIDED INFORMATION ON EDUCATIONAL AND WORK EXPERIENCES. MAJOR FINDINGS WERE--(1) NEARLY 60 PERCENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experience, Employment Experience, Employment Statistics
Eggland, Steven A.; Johnson, Carol A. – 1980
Although the majority of school personnel surveyed (92%) believe that high school vocational programs are doing a good or adequate job of preparing Mexican-American students for the job market, only 50% of the youth respondents who attended the programs thought they were helpful, according to a study conducted in Scottsbluff, Alliance, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Enrollment, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates
Steenhausen, Nancy E., Ed. – 1979
This report abstracts and summarizes seventy-eight Indiana research and development projects funded in 1977 with moneys allocated by parts C and D of the 1968 Vocational Education Amendments. The projects are grouped into the subject categories of innovative approaches, needs assessment, performance-based vocational education (PBVE), placement and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation
Hamby, Jeanette; And Others – 1978
Designed to research and document whether monies spent on vocational training produce benefits for the recipients, this study involved a population of 857 Montana high school graduates of the classes of 1970 and 1971 who were between twenty-three and twenty-five years old at the time of the survey and who had been employed in Montana during at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Benefits, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Pennsylvania Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education, Harrisburg. – 1977
Forty project abstracts constitute this collection, all of them Pennsylvania research and exemplary activities conducted during the 1975-76 fiscal year and supported with part C and D federal vocational funds (Public Law 90-576). Each of the one-page abstracts contains project title, name and address of project director, project dates, amounts of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Golden, Jeanne M.; Lyons, Paul R. – 1976
This study examined the satisfaction of master of education degree recipients with the Frostburg State College graduate program. Respondents were asked to evaluate the effects of their program experience on their personal growth and on their occupational performance. From 60 to 95 percent of evaluative ratings across items were positive.…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Graduate Study, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education
Gateway Technical Inst., Kenosha, WI. – 1975
The report describes a Gateway Technical Institute (Wisconsin) project to provide more effective counseling and career information to disadvantaged students in the institute's vocational, technical, and adult education district. Interviews with graduates of 46 different programs were taped as a technique for providing occupational information for…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Group Counseling
Pasch, Rodney; And Others – 1975
To meet the need for trained personnel in the agriculture building industry, an agricultural building serviceman program was developed to prepare graduates for entry-level positions in this expanding field. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and improve the curriculum by determining the specific job skills required. Employers and former…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Employer Attitudes
Richardson, William B.; McFadden, Joan R. – 1975
The objectives of the study were to determine the correlation between the factors of employment patterns and vocational program types for 1972-73 graduates of secondary vocational programs in Indiana. A random sample of 25 schools and graduates stratified for vocational program types (agriculture, business education, distributive education, health…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Programs, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Andrew, Dean C.; Roberts, Lawrence H. – 1974
The purposes of the study were: (1) to compare the occupational achievement of vocational education graduates with that of nonvocational graduates, (2) to determine the number of graduates trained in the various vocational areas, and (3) to describe the group of students enrolled in vocational education courses. The study was limited to 1970…
Descriptors: Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns, Graduate Surveys
PDF pending restorationSouthwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1973
Volume 3 of a 3-volume study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 consists entirely of the tabulated responses to the questionnaires. Related documents are available in this issue as VT 021 091, VT 021 092, and VT 021 093. (MF)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Attitudes, Followup Studies
Carter, Edith H. – 1976
A followup study of graduates and non-graduates of occupational-technical programs in Virginia Community College System institutions was conducted in order to develop a profile of such students, to ascertain their post-college activities, and to study their attitudes toward their community college experience and current employment. All former…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Employment Patterns
