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Download full textBangser, Michael R. – 1985
The report describes the STETS (Structured Training Employment Transitional Services) project, a program designed to prepare mentally retarded young adults for competitive employment. The report summarizes major lessons and policy implications of the STETS demonstration. An initial section describes the evolution of public policy in transition…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Kerachsky, Stuart; And Others – 1985
The report assesses the effectiveness of STETS, the Structured Training and Employment Transitional Services, a project to prepare mentally retarded young adults for competitive employment. An initial section provides an overview on transitional employment, including sections on public policy and transitional employment and related services. The…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment
David, Lloyd – 1997
The National Workplace Literacy Program was very effective for a number of reasons: (1) grants are awarded for 3 years, enabling companies to plan, implement, and evaluate their efforts; (2) the program demanded a partnership of businesses, government, an educational provider, and students/employees; and (3) an educational consortium was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Barker, Kathryn Chang – 1991
The pilot Job Effectiveness Training (JET) workplace basic skills program, developed by Canada's Alberta Vocational College (AVC), Edmonton, for Stelco Steel during 1989-90, was evaluated in terms of impacts or changes from the perspective of the four major stakeholder groups: the students (12 Stelco employees); the employers (Stelco management);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, College Programs
Bateman, Peter; And Others – 1991
Twenty-three projects funded by the Cooperative Demonstration Program (High Technology) in Fiscal Year 1988 were evaluated. The evaluation focused on project logic and design, implementation, and costs and benefits. Thirteen of the 23 applications were found to present clear and coherent design for their projects. Success was predicted for eight…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Treadway, Peter G.; And Others – 1981
A study examined whether the Career Intern Program (CIP) can be replicated in new sites at reasonable cost within a reasonable period of time. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1997
The 12 programs selected as 1996 winners of the Secretary's Awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs illustrate a diverse range of promising practices for the 21st century. Winners were selected based on the presence of 10 elements, including the following: effective and potentially replicable practices; measurable objectives…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
