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Campbell, B. J.; And Others – 1984
A six-month campaign to increase seat belt use in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina centered around the idea of giving out economic incentives for seat belt wearing. The approach was to stop vehicles at random and give all belted vehicle occupants a small prize and a chance for a large cash prize. Precampaign activities involve collecting…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Programs, Driver Education
Download full textAuspos, Patricia; And Others – 1988
Training Opportunities in the Private Sector (TOPS) was a small-scale, voluntary program operated as one among many employment-related options available to recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children in Maine's Work Incentive (WIN) Program. TOPS was distinguished from Maine's other WIN demonstration activities by three program elements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Incentives
Arlington County Public Schools, VA. REEP, Arlington Education and Employment Program. – 1990
Specific ideas and procedures for motivating employees to sign up for and attend classes in English are outlined. The roles of the management in general and the supervisor in particular in supporting and encouraging attendance are emphasized. These individuals are seen as important in motivating, scheduling, implementing and retaining students,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Employer Attitudes
Riccio, James A. – 1999
This report describes the Jobs-Plus approach, an attempt to transform low-work, high-welfare public housing developments into high-work, low-welfare communities. It highlights the rationale of the approach, the way the demonstration has been set up to test the approach in the field, and what has been accomplished so far by the seven cities chosen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Scrivener, Susan; Hendra, Richard; Redcross, Cindy; Bloom, Dan; Michalopoulos, Charles; Walter, Johanna – 2002
An evaluation was conducted of Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project (WRP), one of the earliest statewide welfare reform programs designed to increase work and reduce reliance on welfare. To assess the difference WRP made, parents applying for or receiving cash assistance in Vermont from July 1994 to December 1996 were assigned randomly to one…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
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This document contains four papers presented at a symposium on practitioner states moderated by Kay Bull at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "The Effect of Locus of Control and Performance-Contingent Incentives on Productivity and Job Satisfaction in Self-Managing Teams" (Bonnie E. Garson, Douglas…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Corporate Education
