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Download full textWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2018
The Worker Retraining (WRT) program is a key strategy in meeting the economic and workforce needs of Washington's workers and employers. Funded through the state legislature, the aim of WRT is to ensure dislocated and other unemployed workers have access to education and training that will help them reattach to the labor market in jobs and careers…
Descriptors: Job Training, Retraining, Employment Programs, State Programs
Creticos, Peter A.; Sheets, Robert G. – 1989
A project will develop and test a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system tailored especially to the objectives and administrative requirements of state-financed, workplace-based employee training programs. That system will have the following three components: (1) a process monitoring system that shows whether the programs are following…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Job Training
Ramey, Luellen – 1984
This document provides a description and evaluation of the RECAP (Re-employment Career Planning)/JETS (Job, Education/Training, Selection) program, a cooperative re-employment training program for displaced automobile industry workers in Michigan. Following the brief introduction, program development and pre-training preparation are discussed,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dislocated Workers, Job Training, Program Descriptions
Lo Bosco, Maryellen – Personnel, 1985
Describes results of a survey of "Personnel" readers and human resource managers and/or training directors concerning the nature of training in their firms. Answers concern kinds of training, methods and tools, perceived success of training programs, retraining and special programs, and entry-level skill development. (CT)
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
McDonnell, John C. – 1971
As the second volume in a three part study evaluating vocational training provided in occupational institutions, this document is concerned with the administrative and legislative development of vocational training in correctional institutions, and with the characteristics of the 25 projects covered by this study. The basic aspects considered for…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Criminology, Disadvantaged
Spirer, Janet E. – 1980
Underutilization of evaluation findings relative to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation may not stem primarily from factors usually identified in the literature (e.g., methodological reasons) but may be superseded by a more potent factor such as the prominence of the policy or program on the national agenda. Viewed…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Job Training
Visher, Mary G.; Walsh, Stephen – 1994
The Farmers and Ranchers Demonstration Project, funded by the Economic Dislocation and Workers Adjustment Act, provided funding for employment and training services to dislocated and at-risk farmers and ranchers and their dependents and employees in four states (Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota) from July 1, 1990 to September 30,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Berlin (West Germany). – 1987
This publication contains monographs on vocational training and regional development for six regions of the European Communities. The monograph on Lorraine (France) by Gerard Calais describes basic training structures, redeployment policies, requalification of job seekers, and coordination of training efforts. Profiles of development technicians…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
Horowitz, Morris; And Others – 1968
This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Doherty, Linda M.; Bacon, Steven F. – 1982
A project evaluated the effectiveness of two pilot Correctional Custody Units (CCUs), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coronado, California, and the Behavioral Skills Training Unit (BEST) at Norfolk, Virginia. These units were intended to retrain errant, but potentially productive, first-term enlistees through a program of discipline, motivational and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
BORUS, MICHAEL E. – 1964
A STUDY WAS MADE OF RETRAINING PROGRAMS IN FOUR LABOR MARKETS IN CONNECTICUT, UNDER BOTH THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT ACT AND STATE SPONSORSHIP. THE PURPOSE WAS TO DETERMINE THE BENEFITS AND COSTS TO WORKERS, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE ECONOMY. THE STATE HAD PIONEERED SUCH PROGRAMS SO A SAMPLE COULD BE STUDIED OF THOSE WHO HAD LONG WORK-HISTORIES AFTER…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Doctoral Dissertations, Economics, Educational Benefits
Cronin, Doug; Parkison, Teresa – 1985
California's Employer-Based Training (EBT) Program focuses on preparing individuals for the new technologies of the future and responding to the real and current skills training needs of business and industry. The three major program components are: new programs in high and emerging technologies; private sector support for worksite-based training;…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Financial Support, Inplant Programs, Job Training
Ashley, William L.; Kurth, Paula K. – 1988
This review presents a summary of the research on displaced worker programs and implications and recommendations for practice that the research supports. Chapter I is an overview of the displaced worker problem. It considers the extent of worker displacement and job loss and summarizes future projections. Chapter II discusses existing programs for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedKantor, Sherrie L., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1994
Intended as a forum for the discussion of customized workforce training at community colleges, this book addresses the practical considerations, programs, and strategies that come into play when colleges engage in customized contract training for fully-employed learners. The 10 chapters are as follows: (1) "Training for Customized Training:…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Contract Training, Cooperative Programs, Faculty Development
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1990
This study examines the intent and operation of postsecondary education linkages with business and industry. Following an introduction, chapter II describes the Industry Services Training Program, which provides occupational training for jobs created by new, expanding, and diversified industry, and the Sunshine State Skills Program, which helps to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Economic Development, Job Skills
