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Download full textPortland Community Coll., OR. – 1993
This guide is designed for use in replicating the B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) and B-FIT (Building Futures in Industry and Trades) program, a two-term professional certificate program designed to prepare individuals for skilled jobs in the electrical, mechanical, and construction trades. The first section contains the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Gordon, Donald M. – 1983
This project was conducted in New Castle (Henry County), Indiana to train and use the services of a work analysis specialist who would work with manufacturing companies to improve company profits through the provision of training programs based on a specific needs assessment. The determination of specific needs was accomplished through the…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, Economic Development
Blanksby, Vivienne; Bruhn, Peter – 1994
The realization of the need for reform in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system stems largely from changing economic circumstances and a changing industrial relations environment. The reforms are intended to provide the following: national coherence in training arrangements and outcomes, improved quality and more widespread…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
McMurdo, Jenny; Gerel, Don – 1991
A model manufacturing training program was created for Oregon's precision metals industry. The program, a cooperative venture among private industry, education, and government, focused on two main goals: to train entry-level employees and to upgrade the skills of current employees in response to technological changes. The program at Clackamas…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, Entry Workers
Hacker, James C. – 1992
A workplace literacy demonstration project was implemented through a partnership among the Michigan Department of Education, Michigan Institute for Adult Learning and Literacy, and the United Auto Workers/General Motors (UAW/GM) Human Resource Center. Competency-based, job-related foundation skills training was provided for 400 employees, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Computer Managed Instruction
Packer, Arnold C.; Brainard, Scott – 2003
Foremost among efforts over the last decade to improve the work-related skills required of all young people to meet the demands of American's workplaces was the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills Commission (SCANS). Integral to SCANS were its three-part foundation (basic skills, thinking skills, and personal qualities) and these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
