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Download full textBurghardt, John; Schochet, Peter Z.; McConnell, Sheena; Johnson, Terry; Gritz, R. Mark; Glazerman, Steven; Homrighausen, John; Jackson, Russell – 2001
The National Job Corps Study is based on a national random sample of all eligible applicants to Job Corps in late 1994 and 1995. The sampled youth were assigned randomly to either a program group whose members could enroll in Job Corps or a control group whose members could enroll in all other programs available to them in their communities.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
McConnell, Sheena – 1999
The value of the output and services produced by students while enrolled in the Job Corps was estimated by analyzing data from a sample of 2 projects from each of 23 Job Corps centers. The projects were subjected to in-depth analysis based on independent-estimate and relative-productivity approaches. The following were among the key findings: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
Johnson, Terry; Gritz, Mark; Dugan, Mary Kay – 2000
The National Job Corps Study was undertaken to obtain the information needed to assess the Job Corps' success in providing employment assistance to disadvantaged youths aged 16 to 24 years. The study's findings related to outreach and admissions (OA) and center characteristics and practices that appear to promote positive programmatic experiences…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Career Education, Classification
MPR Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 2001
California's school-to-career (STC) efforts were examined in a statewide evaluation study that was initiated in December 2000 and scheduled for completion by June 2002. The study's first phase was assessed in an interim report that focused on the following major activities: (1) development of a white paper describing the STC's national and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Case Studies
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2000
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted a thematic review to identify changes in young people's transition to working life during the 1990s and to identify those policies and programs that are effective in delivering successful transition outcomes for young people. The review focused on 14 countries with widely…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Planning
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 2002
The outcomes achieved by Australia's national vocational education and training (VET) system in 2001 were analyzed in terms of the following performance indicators: (1) recognized VET skill outputs; (2) stocks of skills versus desired levels; (3) employer satisfaction with VET; (4) student outcomes from VET; (5) participation, outputs, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
