A study ascertained the perceptions that affect coordination between Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and vocational education. Questionnaires were completed by 184 individuals representing JTPA staff from service delivery areas (SDAs), vocational education staff from regional delivery systems (RDSs), community college staff, and state agency…

Eleventh- and twelfth-grade students in California comprehensive high schools and Regional Occupational Centers/Programs spend about one million hours a day on vocational education. California students who took a concentrated sequence of high school vocational subjects during 1981 had a 26 percent unemployment rate in the spring of 1982, compared…

A study examined the relationship of learning style, reading vocabulary, reading comprehension, and aptitude for learning to achievement in the self-paced and computer-assisted instructional (CAI) modes of the Yeoman "A" School at the Naval Technical Training Center in Meridian, Mississippi. To gather data for the study, researchers…

With minor exceptions, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program is working well and is meeting its legislative mandates. The vigorous public-private partnerships that have emerged at the local community level and the strong leadership role assumed by private sector representatives on the State Job Training Coordinating Councils and Private…

To determine how employers select and train employees and the implications of this behavior for schools, telephone interviews were conducted with more than 3,500 employers. These employers answered questions on the number of persons who applied for the last position for which they hired prior to August, 1981; the number of applicants interviewed;…

This report is one of a series of papers analyzing how employers select and train employees and the implications of their behavior for schools. Data for the study were gathered in telephone interviews with more than 3,500 employees conducted by the Gallup Organization. This report is organized in three chapters. In the first chapter, John Barron…

This document is the first issue of a National Alliance of Business publication designed to present proven solutions, cutting-edge strategies, and comprehensive reference materials and to examine in depth in each issue a critical issue related to public/private employment and training partnerships. This first issue addresses one of the most…

This report is based on five regional forums held in 1983 on the topic of business and vocational education. The forums, conducted in cooperation with the National Commission for Employment Policy and the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education, provided the opportunity for an exchange of ideas and information with representatives of the…

The Single Parent/Adult Homemaker Reentry Program at Ashland Community College (Kentucky) was developed to meet the training needs of 40 eligible persons by enrolling them in vocational-technical programs at the college. Students received financial support for tuition, books, child care, and transportation; academic and personal counseling;…

A project was undertaken to develop a model for organizing and operating learning centers in secondary and postsecondary vocational schools as well as in community colleges in Kentucky. During the first year of the project models were developed for learning centers at both instructional levels. Stressed in each model was the use of key elements of…

The United States Departments of Energy (DOE) and Labor (DOL) have cosponsored a number of demonstration programs to train economically disadvantaged migrant and seasonal farmworkers for energy-related technical and skilled occupations. A descriptive study of the first DOE/DOL demonstration was made to determine the impact of training on…

This document presents five winning entries in the second annual competition for papers reporting research and policy studies on the topic of youth employability. In their paper entitled "The Impact of Employment and Training Programs on the Work Attitudes of Disadvantaged Youth," Michael Forcier and Andrew Hahn review and synthesize the…

In this final report, the demonstration project conducted by the Mesa schools from 1973 to 1976 is shown to have been successful in reaching its goals of staff training, information dissemination, and student benefits in developmental career guidance, counseling, and placement services for grades K-12. Student-related objectives which are listed…

Based on the premise that there is substantial correlation between the goals and objectives of career education and experiential education (learning activities outside the normal classroom), four themes are developed: A typology of experiential education and community involvement practices, an overview of selected exemplary experiential education…

Designed to provide basic information on the linkages achieved under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), this report focuses on education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) linkages, the vocational education/CETA connection, and the role of postsecondary institutions (particularly minority colleges) in…