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Download full textCheney-Stern, Marilyn R.; Phelps, L. Allen – 1980
Illinois-funded Project IMPACT was designed to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirement of Public Law 94-482, with regard to the effect of vocational education research and development on vocational education programs. The study addressed itself to three problem areas: (1) how to define impact, (2) how to assess…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Definitions, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Peer reviewedRusch, Frank R.; Phelps, L. Allen – Exceptional Children, 1987
The economic, educational, and community adjustment difficulties of youth with handicaps are reviewed in the context of historical antecedents and of the U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services' transition initiative. The conceptual and organizational frameworks for the University of Illinois' federally sponsored Transition…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Problems
Peer reviewedPhelps, L. Allen; Hanley-Maxwell, Cheryl – Review of Educational Research, 1997
This review examines employment and postsecondary education outcomes for youth with disabilities leaving secondary schools, as well as studies of educational practices reporting high-quality outcomes. Practices that appear to improve outcomes for these students are supervised work experiences and functionally oriented curricula that connect…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
