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Klein, William; And Others – 1968
Based upon material drawn from experimental programs at Howard University Institute for Youth Studies (1964-67), this manual is intended for those wishing to train workers as nonprofessionals in the human services (health, education, mental health, recreation, child care, research, and community organization) and is designed to be used with SP 002…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Guidelines, Guides, Human Services
Fettes, Trisha – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
Citizenship is an important part of the development of young people. By enabling them to learn about their rights and responsibilities, to understand how society works, and develop knowledge and understanding of social and political issues, citizenship prepares them for dealing with the challenges they face in life. Through citizenship, young…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
Achieve, Inc., 2007
This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind. There is more momentum in the states now than at any time since…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Accountability, Educational Change, High School Students
Demirdogen, R. Esra – Online Submission, 2007
This paper is about a study, which has been carried out at a chemical production facility in Izmir, Turkey during the spring of 2006 using Participatory Action Research process in a training course exploiting Learning Management System. The system has been tested with 12 chemists working in this factory. The technical training course was carried…
Descriptors: Action Research, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Management Information Systems
Coffield, Frank; Edward, Sheila; Finlay, Ian; Hodgson, Ann; Spours, Ken; Steer, Richard; Gregson, Maggie – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
The TLRP project reported on in this article attempts to understand how the Learning and Skills sector functions. It traces how education and training policy percolates down through many levels in the English system and how these levels interact, or fail to interact. The authors first focus upon how policy impacts upon the interests of three…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Public Service, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Hemphill, Sharon; Duffield, Judy – Journal of Staff Development, 2007
The staff development teacher facilitates the evolution of a school-based professional learning community focused on improving teaching and learning by being a catalyst for teacher change and reflection. These teacher leaders needed the knowledge and skills to transform individual school staffs into professional learning communities focused on…
Descriptors: Specialists, Learning Theories, Teacher Education Programs, Lifelong Learning
Patton, Madeline – Community College Press (NJ1), 2008
How to strengthen technician education to meet the needs of the biotechnology industry was the question before the 50 people who participated in the "Educating Biotechnicians for Future Industry Needs" conference from April 28 to 30 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The participants were from higher education, secondary schools, industry, government, and…
Descriptors: Industry, Labor Force Development, Group Discussion, Community Colleges
O'Connor, Debra L.; Menaker, Ellen S. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Instructional games are created when training is deliberately added to a gaming environment or when gaming aspects are deliberately incorporated into training. One type of game that is currently attracting the attention of the education and training field is the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). Because evidence about learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Games, Team Training, Educational Technology
Levin, Eve – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Under the auspices of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), the Department of History at the University of Kansas recast its doctoral program to emphasize career preparation. Its creative approach has earned the department national visibility. In this article, the author describes how the department came to reenvision graduate education,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, History Instruction, Educational Change, Career Development
Beaudin, Bart – 1982
This fact sheet identifies some of the basic premises of employer-sponsored training and reviews two studies that surveyed the quantity of occupational training in industry. Highlights and statistics from a 1977 study by Seymour Lusterman entitled "Education in Industry," and a 1975 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics entitled…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employers, Industrial Training, Industry
Norris, Claudia K. – 1980
The 1978 reauthorization of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) introduced a new title, Title VII: the Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP). This title instructs Prime Sponsors to form a new kind of intermediary organization, a Private Industry Council (PIC), which has the major objective of increasing the opportunities of…
Descriptors: Administration, Contracts, Definitions, Employment Opportunities
Schroeder, Wayne L.; Sapienza, Dunnovan L. – 1968
A questionnaire to study company education programs was devised and sent to Florida companies employing at least 200 people. Training programs were conducted in 55% of the firms, with an additional 12% expecting to develop such programs within three years. Training directors were employed in more than half of the firms but they were more often…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attendance Patterns, Bibliographies, Business
Horowitz, Morris; And Others – 1968
This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Somers, Gerald; Roomkin, Myron – 1972
Although it was generally recognized that the acquisition of productive skills occurred mainly in private industry, either through formal company training programs or simply through "learning by doing," very little specific information about such training was available. This study of the inplant training procedures of one company was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs, Job Skills
Skill Upgrading in Cleveland, OH. – 1970
Skill Upgrading in Cleveland (SUIC) is one of three manpower training and upgrading organizations which was funded to replicate and further test the High Intensity Training (HIT) model for upgrading underemployed workers. This report is a summary of activities aimed at upgrading low-skill, low-wage workers within a plant setting and with small…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Inplant Programs