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Nixon, Jessie; Halverson, Erica; Stoiber, Andy – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2021
The Exploring Making Through Mobile Emergent Technologies (EMMET) program sought to disrupt the trajectory from rural high school to factory floor by introducing STEM and computational thinking (STEM+C) skills through mentorship training and hands-on activities involving creative production--often referred to as "making." The program…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Walz, Kenneth A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Over the past decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Madison Area Technical College (Madison College) partnered to create an internship pathway for graduate students pursuing careers as future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty members. Since 2003, 10 doctoral students from the university completed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internship Programs, Graduate Students, STEM Education
Simmons, Wilber D. – 1970
This study surveyed the extent of Special Educational Opportunity Programs (SEOP) for disadvantaged students among higher education institutions in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, in an initial attempt to establish baseline data on the nature and range of SEOP activities. From the results of a questionnaire administered to both…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Colleges, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Strong, Merle E.; Jarosik, Daniel – 1989
A study sought to determine how graduates of vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) programs fared in the work force as compared with a national comparison group. The secondary purpose of the study was to ascertain the feasibility and appropriateness of using existing data bases to conduct follow-up research of vocational education…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Income, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison. Research Coordinating Unit. – 1983
This study was conducted in Wisconsin to determine the current status of personnel within the vocational, technical and adult education (VTAE) districts responsible for research, planning, and development (RPD) activities, what activities were being performed by the districts, and the nature of involvement in the performance of these RPD…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Community Colleges
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education, Madison. Wisconsin Technical Coll. System. – 1993
The Wisconsin Workplace Partnership Training Program involved the state's technical college system board, state chapter of the AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, and Madison Center on Education and Work. The state-level education-labor-management partnership was mirrored at the local level in 28 worksite education centers. Instruction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading
Baldus, Lorayne – 1997
This report describes phase VI of the Equity Staff Development project, an ongoing project to achieve equity and diversity at Wisconsin technical colleges by creating an institutional climate supporting achievement by all students. Among the project's major activities and outcomes are the following: the existing train-the-trainer format of peer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Diversity (Student)
Orr, Margaret Terry – 1996
Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship Program in printing (YAP) features the following elements: competency-based curriculum and assessment systems; 2-year, part-time paid training and work experiences at one or more printing companies; work-based mentoring; technical college instruction in printing technology and some academic courses; integrated…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Career Development
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education, Madison. Wisconsin Technical Coll. System. – 1994
During the 1993-94 program year, the 16 local Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) postsecondary districts delivered a total of 98,191 services to 36,071 clients through grant activities funded by the Carl D. Perkins Act. The WTCs board developed a format and process for reporting performance measures. All 16 WTCS districts exceeded the 35%…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Annual Reports