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Direct linkFazekas, Mihály; Kurekova, Lucia Mytna – OECD Publishing, 2016
Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of changing economies? How should the programmes be funded? How should they be linked to academic and university programmes? How can employers and unions be engaged? The country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Needs, Educational Finance
Download full textHuman Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2010
This report presents the results of the formative evaluation of the Adult Learning, Literacy and Essential Skills Program (ALLESP). Data collection related to this evaluation took place between November 2008 and May 2009. The evaluation resulted in the following four recommendations: (1) It is recommended that Program objectives and activities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Administrative Change
Offenstein, Jeremy; Shulock, Nancy – Jobs for the Future, 2010
As educators, government officials, and foundations leaders have embraced the agenda of dramatically increasing college success and credential completion, they have come to understand the need for better data on student outcomes to guide the improvement efforts of institutions, systems, and states. The data on degree completion and other final…
Descriptors: Credits, Accountability, Higher Education, Educational Objectives
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1990
Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 is the largest federally-funded program designed to provide services to educationally deprived elementary school and secondary school students who live in areas with a concentration of children from low income families. Annual needs assessment and evaluation are requirements of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Delinquency
Bowers, John J. – 1980
This report presents the field tests plan including site selection for the Basic Skill Development Through Vocational Education Project. (The project's purpose is to develop Resource and Teacher Guides to provide vocational and occupational education teachers with information about ways of incorporating basic skills instruction into occupational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation
Perez-Johnson, Irma; Strong, Debra; Van Noy, Michelle – 2002
The costs of the Department of Labor's Welfare-to-Work (WTW) grants program were analyzed by studying 18 WTW programs from 9 in-depth evaluation sites. The programs differed from the standpoints of their service locations, target populations, and service emphasis, and their costs variations were consistent with those differences. The 18 programs…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Statistics on Education. – 1990
Worldwide educational indicators are presented in tables and graphs by region. The indicators are selected to highlight the International Literacy Year and Education for All, two programs of particular importance to the United Nations. Data are presented for the school years beginning in 1970, 1975, 1980, and select years up to 1987. The terms…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Demography, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1990
Statewide results of South Carolina's Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) are provided in terms of the percentages of students meeting statewide performance standards in reading, mathematics, writing, and science. BSAP tests were administered statewide on April 23-27, 1990, in grades 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8. The BSAP Exit Examination was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
The English "Skills for Life" strategy symbolises the prominent place that adult basic skills have claimed in education and training policy in England since the beginning of this century. The strategy aims to improve the skills of a large number of learners over a ten year period (2001-2010). This paper explores what we can learn about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Data, Basic Skills, Adult Basic Education
Levin, Henry M.; Woo, Louis – 1980
Cost data were collected from a study on the effectiveness of computer assisted instruction (CAI) for culturally disadvantaged children in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Based upon the resource ingredients approach to measuring costs, it was found that up to three daily 10-minute sessions of drill and practice could be provided for each…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Griffin, Virginia; And Others – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills (BES). The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedAhmann, J. Stanley – Educational Studies, 1979
Discusses data relating to performance of students on achievement tests. Describes an achievement study, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which follows achievement trends in basic skills, general subject matter, humanities, and fine arts. (Author/DB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Creativity, Educational Assessment
Asera, Rose – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008
Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) was organized by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in partnership with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to increase student learning in developmental--or basic skills--classes. However, their concern was not just the success of students in classes…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Action Research, Organizational Change
McNeil, Judy T.; And Others – 1981
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills. The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Posante-Loro, Rebecca; And Others – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills (BES). The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
