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Download full textHeal, Laird W.; And Others – 1988
Twenty-three matched pairs of high-school students with mental retardation who obtained gainful employment were compared. One member of each pair remained successfully placed for at least 6 months, and the other did not. By selecting pairs from model programs under the transition-from-secondary-education initiative of the U.S. Office of Special…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, High Schools, Job Placement, Mental Retardation
Geroy, Gary D.; Passmore, David L. – 1987
This paper reports an assessment of the education and training program needs stimulated by investment in cogeneration technology in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. (Cogeneration technology would convert raw culm, a byproduct of anthracite coal mining, into a fuel source for steam power generation.) After plant tours and interviews with plant…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Coal, Industrial Personnel, Labor Force Development
Industrial Training International, 1974
The development of instructional ability in workers already skilled in their own craft is a major feature of the Board's training policy. Training packages for this purpose are described, as are more recent developments of new methods for training and development at the management level. (SA)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Food Service, Foreign Countries, Hotels
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1975
National apprenticeship standards are listed, which were developed by the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) in cooperation with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. The preface describes the context for application, e.g.,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Ladders, Federal Government, Labor Standards
Wulf, Douglas; And Others – 1979
From 1974 through 1976, a program to test the feasibility of vouchering manpower training was incorporated into the existing Work Incentive (WIN) program in Portland, Oregon. The purpose of the second phase of the program was to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating vouchers into an on-the-job (OJT) program as an optional component that…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Labor Force Development, On the Job Training, Participant Satisfaction
Flint Board of Education, MI. – 1964
THE POTENTIAL DROPOUT CAN BE IDENTIFIED IN KINDERGARTEN. HIS BACKGROUND, ENVIRONMENT, AND ATTITUDE PROPHESY HIS FAILURE. CHARACTERISTICS OF POTENTIAL DROPOUTS INCLUDE LACK OF INTEREST, SEVERE RETARDATION IN READING, AND WITHDRAWAL TENDENCIES. MORE THAN 600 HOMES WERE VISITED BY FOUR TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS. OBJECTIVES WERE TO OBTAIN PERMISSION TO…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dropout Characteristics, Individualized Instruction, On the Job Training
New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, Trenton. – 1966
A Rural Youth Development Program was organized in 1965 as an agency under the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity to provide counseling, education, vocational training, and job placement for approximately 600 disadvantaged New Jersey rural youth. The first of two phases was designed to provide 450 young men, ages 16 through 21, with short…
Descriptors: Counseling, Dropout Programs, History, Job Placement
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
The document reports on a survey of the Veterans' Administration's (VA) on-job training programs under the current G.I. bill in order to determine whether full use was being made of the program as a source of veteran employment. The survey covered eight selected VA regional offices. Available information shows that since the program began in 1967…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Employment Statistics
Bergmann, Joseph A.; Smith, Michael C. – 1975
An occupational survey comparing active duty and Reserve Forces nurses was conducted to support a Nursing Resources Study Group gathering information on current and future nurse requirements. Job inventory booklets were sent to chief nurses at Reserve and Air National Guard locations which were administered during unit training meetings. Returned…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Job Analysis, Military Personnel
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This report provides a comprehensive model of an optimum apprenticeship program, using survey and interview data to determine the essential characteristics of such a program. The model is intended to serve as a framework for constructing new programs and evaluating existing ones. Subsequent volumes will discuss survey findings in specific trade…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Inplant Programs, Labor Force Development, Models
Engineering Industry Training Board, London (England). – 1968
This document outlines various approaches to training of professional engineers in the British system. There are a number of educational paths which the student engineer may follow, involving various periods spent in "sandwich" courses, university or technical college courses, and on-the-job training in an industrial situation. The…
Descriptors: Engineers, Industrial Training, Occupational Mobility, On the Job Training
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
This document reports a 1967 summer pilot program designed to serve as a model for uniting the Youth Tutoring Youth concept with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. An introductory section overviews the project in which 200 14- and 15-year olds who were not achieving well in school and who had fallen below grade level in reading were trained to serve as…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Instructional Materials, On the Job Training
Reinhart, Bruce; Blomgren, Glen H. – 1969
This report contains introductory material on cost-benefit analysis, reviews of cost benefit studies by Andrew J. Corazzini and by Jacob J. Kaufman and others, a discussion of the basic concepts of cost-benefit analysis, and a discussion of two possible approaches to cost-benefit analysis of vocational education: (1) vocational versus academic…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cost Effectiveness, On the Job Training, Program Costs
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. – 1969
Consultants and supervisors from the State Department of Education, the Santa Fe Public Schools, and the Penitentiary of New Mexico propose to train 30 two-man teams as paraprofessional teachers and paraprofessional teacher aides for service as classroom teachers in approximately 40 elementary, secondary, and vocational courses for 500 men in the…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Disadvantaged, Institutional Cooperation, On the Job Training
MacBain, Z. E. – 1973
This paper summarizes the "Affirmative Action" training of unskilled minorities for jobs as firemen. The various training approaches undertaken are discussed; some were more successful than others. Hopefully, the information provided in this report can be used by other fire departments as a basis for developing their own minority "Affirmative…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Fire Fighters, Fire Science Education, Minority Groups
