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Download full textHahn, Robert; Mohrman, Kathryn – AAHE Bulletin, 1985
The knowledge and skills needed by managers are considered, as well as the relationship between undergraduate study and continuing management education. Because of industry's dissatisfaction with the general preparation provided by colleges, business and industry managers were surveyed about the learning goals of the management-training programs…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators, College Programs
Gollattscheck, James; And Others – 1986
A survey was conducted of selected two-year colleges to gain an in-depth knowledge about the business/industry training programs provided by these colleges and to quantify the efforts of two-year colleges to improve the quality of the work force and the efficiency of public and private enterprises. Study findings, based on responses from 54 of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Inplant Programs, Job Training, Labor Education
McGrail, Janet – 1984
A portrait of illiterates and literacy programs in the United States in the 1980s is derived from this summary of the most up-to-date, valid information that could be obtained from a literature review. The first section on adult illiterates identifies data sources, numbers of illiterates, and characteristics of the five main groups (the elderly,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Programs, Correctional Education
Peer reviewedClement-Heist, Kim; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1992
This study, involving 4 high school seniors with learning disabilities, found that an initial vocational social skills simulation intervention delivered at school led to generalization in 8 of 12 target behaviors (3 behaviors per student). Subsequently, in situ training at the work site produced generalization in four of six behaviors. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Generalization, High Schools
Clagett, Craig A. – 1988
A collaborative study was conducted by representatives of the Prince George's Chamber of Commerce, the University of Maryland University College, and Prince George's Community College to identify the training and professional development activities most desired by county business leaders. Surveys were mailed to 5,000 of the 15,125 businesses…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Continuing Education, Educational Needs
Falk, Ian, Ed. – 2002
This document presents 13 papers that are intended to serve as a professional development resource for language, literacy, and numeracy practitioners and others involved in enterprise-based training provision in Australia and to provide a framework for evaluating workplace language, literacy, and numeracy programs. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Case Studies, Competence
Reed, Horace B., Ed.; Loughran, Elizabeth Lee, Ed. – 1984
This compedium volume summarizes a study on the characteristics and underlying assumptions of education beyond schools. The three chapters in Part I present a method for analyzing and comparing 10 distinct approaches to out-of-school education and demonstrate the important kinds of generalizations this method can generate. Chapter 1 is an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs
